Mental Disorders, Medications, And Clinical Social Work

by Austrian, Sonia G.

• ISBN13: 9780231135160
• ISBN10: 0231135165
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PRESS

Summary

Written for social workers by a social worker, Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common mental disorders. Looking at disorders from an ecosystems perspective, Austrian goes beyond a linear classification approach and DSM-IV-TR categories and encourages social workers to analyze the internal and external environmental factors that contribute to a disorder's development. Austrian's discussion of effective intervention(s) for a particular client also stresses the importance of working with families in treating disorders. In addition to information on new medications, biochemical data on the causes of disease, and diagnostic tests, the revised third edition discusses therapies such as motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and dialectic.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
1 Introduction	1	(9)
2 Anxiety Disorders	10	(20)
3 Mood Disorders	30	(29)
4 Somatoform and Factitious Disorders	59	(13)
5 Dissociative Disorders	72	(18)
6 Schizophrenia	90	(22)
7 Substance-Related Disorders	112	(36)
8 Eating Disorders	148	(24)
9 Personality Disorders	172	(38)
10 Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders	210	(21)
11 The Use of Psychodiagnostic and Psychoeducational Testing
Laura K. Nisco and Peter A. Meiland	231	(23)
12 Psychotropic Medications
Sharon Hird	254	(16)
Epilogue	270	(3)
Glossary	273	(6)
References and Additional Readings	279	(26)
Author Index	305