Synopses & Reviews
The most comprehensive textbook for students in advanced social work and mental health courses is now completely revised and updated for a new generationWhen Adult Psychopathology: A Social Work Perspective was first published in 1984, this pioneering text was the first to conceptualize and organize theory and practice about the treatment of the mentally ill within their families and communities from a social work perspective. Now, in response to new developments in theory and research, as well as changes in service delivery within the field, the second edition contains updated and accessible information on how mental illnesses develop and how they can be treated within a social work framework that recognizes the importance of family, economics, and culture as well as biochemical and psychodynamic factors. Each chapter is written by the leading social work authority on that subject and includes practical, in-depth discussion of state-of-the-art technologies, treatments, and research. The book encompasses the broad spectrum of topics that social workers need to understand, including personality, adjustment, schizophrenia, suicide, anxiety states, phobias, neurological disorders, psychosexual disorders, drug and alcohol addiction, eating disorders, and others. Adult Psychopathology, Second Edition is essential for both M.S.W. and Ph.D. social work students and, as the authoritative, unequaled reference book, will aid clinicians in making more precise diagnoses in their daily work.
Review
Social WorkA handy reference for both students and practitioners of social work. It enables the current and future practitioner to locate in the range of thought his or her own approach to practice, to clarify a framework, and perhaps to expand and deepen it.
About the Author
Francis J. Turner, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University in Toronto. He is the editor of several Free Press books, including Social Work Treatment, Fourth Edition, and Differential Diagnosis and Treatment in Social Work. He is also Editor in Chief of International Social Work. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Table of Contents
ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
1 Introduction
Francis J. Turner
2 A Transdisciplinary View of Mental Disorder
D. W. Millard
3 Case Management as a Strategy of Social Work Intervention with the Mentally Ill
Irene A. Gutheil and Roslyn H. Chernesky
4 The Biological Bases of Psychopathology
Harriette C. Johnson
5 Psychopharmacology and Clinical Social Work
Jacinta Marschke and Carol P. Kaplan
6 Social Work and the DSM
Marcia Brubeck
7 Neurological Disorders
Harriette C. Johnson and Daniel E. Jacome
8 Senescence
Kathleen Joyce Farkas
9 Alzheimer's Disease: Patient and Family Victimized
Daniel C. Andreae
10 Psychophysiologic Disorders
Mary S. Sheridan and Karen Kline
11 Developmental Disabilities in Aging Persons
Gary B. Seltzer
12 Schizophrenic Disorders
Joseph Walsh
13 Affective Disorders
Mary Kay O'Neil
Addendum: Affective Disorders: Mood Disorders
Mary Kay O'Neil
14 Anxiety Disorders
Bert L. Kaplan
15 Adjustment Disorders
Judith Mishne
16 Personality Disorders
Mary E. Woods
17 Borderline Personality Disorder
Harriette C. Johnson
18 Antisocial Personality Disorders
Michael Rothery
19 Disassociative Identity Disorder
Jim Lantz
20 Paranoid Disorders
Cheryl Regehr and Graham D. Glancy
21 Phobic Disorders
Ray Thomlison
22 Eating Disorders and Social Work
Jan Lackstrom
23 Psychosexual Disorders
Harvey L. Gochros
24 Alcohol Dependence
Donald E. Meeks and Marilyn A. Herie
25 Drug Addiction: A BPSI Model
M. Dennis Kimberley and Peter Bohm
26 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Conceptualized as a Problem in the Person-Environment System
Cathryn Bradshaw and Barbara Thomlison
27 Suicide
Howard M. Turney
Index