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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.

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• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Anxiety Disorders
• 3 Mood Disorders
• 4 Somatoform and Factitious Disorders
• 5 Dissociative Disorders
• 6 Schizophrenia
• 7 Substance-Related Disorders
• 8 Eating Disorders
• 9 Personality Disorders
• 10 Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders
• 11 The Use of Psychodiagnostic and Psychoeducational Testing
• 12 Psychotropic Medications
• Epilogue
• Glossary
• References and Additional Readings

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Sonia Austrian is the author of Development Theories Through the Life Cycle . She is associate professor in the departments of public health and of psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, and is director of the Employee Assistance Program Consortium.