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Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons (Hardcover)
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At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and
electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed
persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that
psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more
effective, less harmful, and much more able to address the real
needs of recovery, growth, and development for affected persons.
Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons empowers
counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to
trust their intuitive and clinical understanding of how to help
seriously disturbed people through humane, caring
approaches.Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons
introduces mental health professionals to an array of psychological
and social alternatives that are available for helping patients
considered "psychotic" or very emotionally disturbed. Focusing on
psychological and social approaches to helping people who become
labeled "psychotic" or who carry serious psychiatric diagnoses,
contributors show mental health professionals psychological,
social, and spiritual alternatives for approaching or treating
these individuals. Readers learn about: a successful model for
nonmedical, non-drug residential treatment centers utilizing the
artwork of psychotic patients case histories of psychoanalytic
therapy group therapy to help families with a "schizophrenic"
member improve communication Re-evaluation Counseling (RC) with
disturbed individuals psychoanalytically-oriented therapy World
Health Organization research which demonstrates the positive effect
of extended family and social relationships and the negative effect
of modern biopsychiatric treatment research demonstrating the
efficacy of psychotherapy with persons labeled "schizophrenic"These
chapters combined with a review of empirical studies demonstrate to
readers the efficacy of psychotherapy with psychotic patients.
Students or experienced professionals in any of the mental health
fields, including psychotherapy, counseling, clinical psychology,
clinical social work, and Re-evaluation Counseling will find
Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons a necessity for
most effectively and humanely treating clients with serious
psychiatric diagnoses.
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