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Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work
students and practitioners. It explores the complicated
relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well
as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence,
course, adaptation to and recovery from mental illness. The
introductory chapter presents bio-psycho-social and life-modeled
approaches to helping individuals and families with mental illness.
The book is divided into two parts. Part I addresses specific
social problems, such as poverty, oppression, racism, war,
violence, and homelessness, identifying the factors which
contribute to vulnerabilities and risks for the development of
mental health problems, including the barriers to accessing quality
services. Part II presents the most current empirical findings and
practice knowledge about prevalence, diagnosis, assessment, and
intervention options for a range of common mental health problems -
including personality conditions, eating conditions and affective
conditions. Focusing throughout upon mental health issues for
children, adolescents, adults and older adults, each chapter
includes case studies and web resources. This practical book is
ideal for social work students who specialize in mental health.
Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work
students and practitioners. It explores the complicated
relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well
as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence,
course, adaptation to and recovery from mental illness. The
introductory chapter presents bio-psycho-social and life-modeled
approaches to helping individuals and families with mental illness.
The book is divided into two parts. Part I addresses specific
social problems, such as poverty, oppression, racism, war,
violence, and homelessness, identifying the factors which
contribute to vulnerabilities and risks for the development of
mental health problems, including the barriers to accessing quality
services. Part II presents the most current empirical findings and
practice knowledge about prevalence, diagnosis, assessment, and
intervention options for a range of common mental health problems -
including personality conditions, eating conditions and affective
conditions. Focusing throughout upon mental health issues for
children, adolescents, adults and older adults, each chapter
includes case studies and web resources. This practical book is
ideal for social work students who specialize in mental health.
This book, written by clinicians who practice primarily from a
psychodynamic framework, shows how to include cognitive-behavioral
techniques in contemporary psychodynamic practice. In Part I, the
authors examine why integration is essential and present a model
for cognitive assessment within an ego psychological framework. Are
these two approaches compatible or even complementary? What can one
offer the other? Does one work better with a specific population or
problem than the other? Can cognitive clinicians learn something
from the psychodynamic understanding of the roles of affect,
transference, and developmental history? Can psycho-dynamically
trained clinicians learn something from cognitive understanding of
the role of thought processes in influencing behavior and creating
change? Part II illustrates this integration in clinical work with
children, adolescents, older adults, and couples. Its utility and
effectiveness in practice is further highlighted in brief treatment
sessions and in treating problems of depression, trauma, and
chemical dependence.
Modern society is increasingly preoccupied with fears for the
future and the idea of preventing 'the worst'. The result is a
focus on attempting to calculate the probabilities of adverse
events occurring - in other words, on measuring risk. Since the
1990s, the idea of risk has come to dominate policy and practice in
mental health across the USA, Australasia and Europe. In this
timely new text, a group of international experts examines the ways
in which the narrow focus on specific kinds of risk, such as
violence towards others, perpetuates the social disadvantages
experienced by mental health service users whilst, at the same
time, ignoring the vast array of risks experienced by the service
users themselves. Benefitting from the authors' extensive practice
experience, the book considers how the dominance of the risk
paradigm generates dilemmas for mental health organizations, as
well as within leadership and direct practice roles, and offers
practical resolutions to these dilemmas that both satisfy
professional ethics and improve the experience of the service user.
Combining examination of key theories and concepts with insights
from front line practice, this latest addition to Palgrave's Beyond
the Risk Paradigm series provides an important new dimension to
debates on mental health provision.
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