Clinical Social Work Practice in Behavioral Mental Health

This text provides an in-depth, contemporary approach to clinical social work with clients in mental health settings. This is a revision of a text originally titled Clinical Social Work Practice in Community Mental Health. The "community mental health" approach is now dated, and this revision features "behavioral" mental health, described from a "postmodern" perspective. The book's postmodern approach is client-oriented and context-sensitive. This perspective is explained in Chapter 1 and is included in every chapter by featuring clients' "voices," particularly at the beginning and end of the chapters. Important new topics include managed care and measurement of outcomes, both of which are woven throughout the text and featured in Chapters 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 13. "Best Practices" boxes in Chapters 6 and 8-12 provide exemplary approaches to intervention with clients with specific mental health problems. Alternative healing methods are discussed in "Other Ways of Healing" sections in Chapters 6, 8, 9, 12, and 13. Medications are discussed in Chapters 8, 9, and 12, and abuse of medications is discussed in Chapter 13.

ISBN 0205296998   Pages 382 ISBN13 9780205296996 (What's this?)   Part volume SANDS:CLIN SOC WORK PRAC COMM _c2 Publisher Pearson Education (US)   Volumes 1 Imprint Allyn & Bacon   Weight (grammes) 807 Format Hardback   Published in Old Tappan Publication date 10 Aug 2000   Previous ISBN 9780675212328 Non-book description xviii, 382 p. :   Height (mm) 235 Library of Congress 00029298   Width (mm) 178 DEWEY 362.220973   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
1		Getting Oriented: Themes and Contexts		1
2		Historical Context		27
		Colonial Period		28
		The Beginnings of Psychiatry in the United States		28
		Nineteenth Century		29
		The Reform Movement int the Early Years of the Twentieth Century		32
		World War I and Its Aftermath		34
		The 1930s and 1940s		37
		World War II and Its Aftermath		38
		Changing Approaches to Mental Health Treatment: 1950-1980		39
		Changes in Mental Health Policies: 1981-2000		42
3		A Biopsychosocial Conceptual Framework		47
		Biological Knowing		50
		Psychological Knowing		59
		Social Environmental Knowing		64
		Integrating Biological, Psychological, and Social Ways of Knowing		72
4		The Biopsychosocial Assessment		78
		Components of a Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Assessment		79
		Assessing the Client's Psychiatric Symptoms		84
		Thinking about the Biopsychosocial Assessment		89
		Writing a Biopsychosocial Summary		93
5		Legal and Ethical Issues		100
		Involuntary Civil Commitment		101
		Least Restrictive Alternative		104
		Clients' Rights		105
		Confidentiality and the Duty to Warn		106
		Ethical Issues Surrounding Behavioral Managed Care		109
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