Mental Health and Social Problems (eBook, PDF)

A Social Work Perspective
Redaktion: Rovinelli Heller, Nina; Gitterman, Alex

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence, course, adaptation to and recovery from mental illness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 554
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136892752
• Artikelnr.: 43820687

Autorenporträt

Nina Rovinelli Heller teaches in the masters and doctoral programs, and is the Chair of the Mental Health Substantive Area at the University of Connecticut, USA. She has provided mental health services to individuals and families for thirty years in a range of practice settings. She is the co-editor of Integrating Psychodynamic Theory with Cognitive Behavioral Techniques and has published in the area of social work theory and clinical practice. Alex Gitterman is Zachs Professor of Social Work and Director of the Doctoral Program at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. He has co-authored and co-edited a large number of books including The Life Model of Social Work Practice, Encyclopedia of Social Work with Groups and The Handbook of Social Work Practice with Vulnerable and Resilient Populations. He served as the President and on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, an international professional organization.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Social Problems and Mental Health/Illness
Nina Rovinelli Heller and Alex Gitterman Part I Social Problems and Mental Health/Illness 2. Oppression and Stigma and their Effects
Amy C. Watson and Shaun M. Eack 3. Poverty and its Effects
Mark R. Rank 4. Racism and its Effects
Dennis Miehls 5. War and its Effects
Scott Harding 6. Homelessness and its Effects
Judith Bula Wise 7. Corrections and its Effects
Rudolph Alexander
Jr. 8. Immigration and its Effects
Gregory Acevedo and Manny J. Gonzales 9. Child Maltreatment and its Effects
Carolyn Knight 10. Intimate Partner Violence and its Effects
Bonnie E. Carlson 11. Community Violence and its Effects
Vanessa Vorhies
Neil B. Guterman and Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia Part II Mental Health Conditions 12. Autism Spectrum Conditions
Joseph Walsh and Jacqueline Corcoran 13. Executive Function Disorders and Self Deficits
Joseph Palombo 14. Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Conditions
David W. Springer and Amanda N. Barczyk 15. Mood Conditions
Ellen Smith 16. Anxiety Conditions
Nina Rovinelli Heller and Lisa Werkmeister Rozas 17. Eating Disorder Conditions
Danna Bodenheimer and Nina Rovinelli Heller 18. Personality Conditions
Terry B. Northcut 19. Psychotic Conditions
Ellen P. Lukens and Lydia P. Ogden 20. Substance Abuse
Meredith Hanson 21. Dementia and Related Problems in Cognition and Memory
Sara Sanders and Joelle K. Osterhaus