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by: Corcoran, Jacqueline; Walsh, Joseph M.

ISBN: 9780205055043 | 0205055044

Uses a case study method that will teach students clinical assessment skills for working in the mental health field..

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Consistent with social work's concern with strengths and the environmental context for human behavior, Mental Health in Social Workwill cover strengths-based assessment and the biopsychosocial risk and resilience perspective. 

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... MOREConsistent with social work's concern with strengths and the environmental context for human behavior, Mental Health in Social Work will cover strengths-based assessment and the biopsychosocial risk and resilience perspective. 

Chapter 1 : Diagnosis and the Social Work Profession

The DSM Classification System

Mental Status Examination (MSE)
Limitations of the DSM

 

Chapter 2 : Biopsychosocial Risk and Resilience Framework                         &... MOREnbsp;

Definitions and Description

Individual Factors

Social Mechanisms

Societal Conditions

Guidelines for Eliciting and Enhancing Client Strengths

Conclusion

 

Chapter 3 : Autistic Disorder

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessment of Autism

Biopsychosocial Risk and Resilience Influence

Interventions for Autism

Critical Perspective

 

Chapter 4 : Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder                           

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessing ADHD

Biopsychosocial Risk and Reslience Influences

Intervention

Critique

Critical Perspective

 

Chapter 5 : Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessments of ODD and CD

Biopsychosocial Risk and Resilience Influences

 

Chapter 6 : Alzheimer’s Disease

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessment Guidelines

Intervention

Critical Perspective

 

Chapter 7 : Substance Use Disorders

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessment

Biopsychosocial Risk and Resilience Influences

Intervention

Critical Perspective

 

Chapter 8 : Schizophrenia

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessment

Biopsychosocial Risk and Resilience Influences

Course and Outcome

Intervention

Critical Perspective

 

Chapter 9 : Depressive Disorders         

Prevalence and Comorbidity of Depression

Assessment

Biopsychosocial Risk and Resilience Influences

Intervention

Medication

Youth

Adults

Critical Perspective

 

Chapter 10 : Bipolar Disorder

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessment of Bipolar Disorder

Biopsychosocial Risk and Resilience Influences

Intervention

Critical Perspective

 

Chapter 11 : Anxiety Disorders

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessment of Anxiety Disorders

Biopsychosocial Risk and Resilience

Intervention

Critical Perspective

 

Chapter 12 : Eating Disorders

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessment

Biopsychosocial Risk and Reslience Influences

Intervention

Critical Perspective

 

Chapter 13 : Borderline Personality Disorders              

Characteristics of Personality Disorders

Borderline Personality Disorder

Prevalence and Comorbidity

Assessment

Biopsychosocial Risk and Resilience Influences

Intervention

Critical Perspective

 

Appendix: Case Workbook

Jacqueline Corcoran, Ph.D, is Professor of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University, and has written 11 textbooks in her field, as well as a self-help book, DEPRESSION SOLUTIONS.  Visit her website at http://www.jacquelinecorcoran.com/.

Joseph Walsh, Ph. D., is also a Professor of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University. His primary area of academic interest is interventions with persons who experience severe mental disorders.