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Clinical Social Work Practice in Behavioral Mental Health, 3/e uses evidence-based practice to provide in-depth coverage of clinical social work practice with clients in mental health settings. The authors show the social worker as the critical link between the client, the agency, the family, and the community.

Organized around 2 parts: PART I: A Framework for Practice ( History, Culturally Competency, Legal and Ethical Issues, Biopsychosocial framework and assessment and Feminist Practice) and PART II: Intervention ( Evidence Based Practice with clients with: Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Serious Mental Illness, Severe Mental Illness in Community Context and with their Families, and Co-occuring Substance Abuse and Serious Mental Illness)

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• Most chapters conclude with "Summary and Deconstruction."
• 1 Getting Oriented: Themes and Contexts
• Community Mental Health
• Behavioral Health under Managed Care
• Scientific Knowledge and Evidence-Based Practice
• Definitional Issues
• Postmodernism as a Critical Framework
• I A Framework for Practice
• 2 Historical Context: Changes in Mental Health Policies and Social Work Practice
• The Beginnings of Psychiatry in the United States
• Nineteenth Century
• The Early Years of the Twentieth Century
• World War I and its Aftermath
• World War II and its Aftermath
• Changing Approaches to Mental Health Treatment: 1950âÇô1980
• Changes in Mental Health Policies: 1981-2010
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 3 Biopsychosocial Conceptual Framework
• Biological Knowledge
• Psychological and Psychosocial Knowledge: Theories, Frameworks, and Therapies
• Integrating Biological, Psychological, and Social Factors
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 4 The Biopsychosocial Assessment
• Components of a Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Assessment
• Assessing the Client's Psychiatric Symptoms
• Components of a Written Biopsychosocial Assessment
• The Written Biopsychosocial Assessment
• Case Review with an Interdisciplinary Planning Team
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 5 Legal and Ethical Issues
• Ethical Theories
• Involuntary Civil Commitment
• Least Restrictive Alternative
• Clients' Rights and Protections
• Confidentiality and the Duty to Protect
• Documentation and Record Keeping
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 6 Culturally Competent Mental Health Practice
• Definitions
• Context-Related Concepts
• Cultural Disparities in Mental Health
• Cultural Dimensions of Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment
• Culturally Competent Practice with Specific Cultural Groups
• Evidence-Based Practice with Persons of Diverse Cultural Backgrounds
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 7 Feminist Social Work Practice
• Feminist Theoretical Perspectives
• Feminist Critique of Psychological Theories
• Epidemiological Findings on Gender and Mental Illness
• Violence Perpetrated against Women
• Summary and Deconstruction
• II Intervention
• 8 Evidence-Based Practice with Depressed Clients
• Major Depressive Disorder
• Dysthymic Disorder
• Depression in Older Adults
• Multiple Risks and Associated Factors
• Evidence-Based Practice: Cognitive or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Evidence-Based Practice: Interpersonal Therapy
• Evidence-Based Practice: Problem Solving Therapy
• Medication
• Instruments Used to Assess and Monitor Depression
• Complementary and Alternative Therapies
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 9 Evidence-Based Practice for Clients with Anxiety Disorders
• Anxiety Disorders and Older Adults
• Types of Anxiety Disorders
• Explanatory Theories
• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
• Evidence-Based Practice: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Panic Disorder
• Case Example: Integrated Methods
• Reliable Instruments Used to Assess and Monitor Anxiety
• Other Ways of Healing
• Medications Used to Treat Anxiety Disorders
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 10 A Framework For Intervention with Persons with Serious Mental Illness
• Defining Severe Mental Illness
• Relevant Perspectives, Concepts, and Models
• Evidence-Based and Empirically Supported Practices
• Instruments Used to Assess and Monitor Severe Mental Illness
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 11 Evidence-Based and Best Practices With Adults with Severe Mental Illness in a Community Context
• Case Scenario
• Recovery Orientation
• Case Management and Community-Based Care
• Community Support Services and Resources
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 12 Evidence-Based Interventions for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness and Their Families
• Evidence-Based Practice: Illness Management and Recovery
• Evidence-Based Practice with Family Caregivers
• Cognitive Rehabilitation
• Summary and Deconstruction
• 13 Clinical Practice with Persons with Co-Occurring Substance Use and Serious Mental Illness
• Terminology
• Prevalence
• Conceptualization, Assessment and Treatment of Co-Occurring Disorders
• Evidence-Based Practices with Clients with Dual Disorders
• Conclusion

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Roberta G. Sands is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she teaches MSW and doctoral level students. Her primary teaching areas are clinical social work practice, qualitative research, and practice theory. She began her career as a clinical social worker and practiced in community mental health, health, and child welfare settings. Her research has been on mental health and the family, with special attention given to intergenerational family relations, gender, culture, and religious change.

She is the author of Clinical Social Work Practice in Community Mental Health (1991) and Clinical Social Work Practice in Behavioral Mental Health: A Postmodern Approach to Practice (2nd edition, 2001; Chinese edition, 2003), and co-author of Interprofessional and Family Discourses: Voices, Knowledge, and Practice (co-authored with Marleen McClelland, 2002). She has published widely in social work and related social science journals, and has also written book reviews, encyclopedia articles, and book chapters.

Zvi D. Gellis is an associate professor and Hartford Geriatrics Social Work Faculty Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he directs the Center for Mental Health and Aging. Dr. Gellis is a certified trainer in evidence-based Problem Solving Therapy, a cognitive behavioral intervention and he has trained numerous services providers (MSWs, nurses, case managers, community services workers, first responders) over the years in delivery of PST to medically-disabled older adults. Dr. Gellis is a mental health services researcher with key expertise in psychotherapy trials for mental health disorders in older adults. Dr. Gellis' NIMH-funded research has tested the efficacy of PST for late life depression in home healthcare patients with various chronic medical conditions including cardiovascular disease. Dr. Gellis and co-author Dr. McCracken published a series of state-of-the art mental health curriculum modules that are used in schools of social work across the nation.