Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work

by Austrian, Sonia G.

• ISBN13: 9780231112963
• ISBN10: 0231112963
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

This essential resource, written for social workers by a social worker, discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common disorders. Austrian goes beyond a linear classification approach, instead emphasizing a broad bio-psychosocial ecosystems perspective, which takes into account each client's unique situation. In addition to including the most up-to-date information on new medications, biochemical data on disease causes, and diagnostic tests, the thoroughly updated second edition also gives an overview and critique of managed care as it relates to the treatment of mental disorders.

Author Biography

Sonia G. Austrian is on the faculties of Public Health and of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical School of Cornell University and is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
Anxiety Disorders	11	(22)
Mood Disorders	33	(27)
Somatoform and Factitious Disorders	60	(14)
Dissociative Disorders	74	(19)
Schizophrenia	93	(23)
Substance-Related Disorders	116	(35)
Eating Disorders	151	(24)
Personality Disorders	175	(39)
Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders	214	(21)
Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessment	235	(37)
John F. Clarkin
Eric Fertuck
Stephen W. Hurt
Steven Mattis
Psychotropic Medications	272	(19)
Sharon Hird
Epilogue	291	(4)
Glossary	295	(8)
References and Additional Readings	303	(40)
Subject Index	343	(10)
Author Index	353