Mental Disorders in the Social Environment - Critical Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-231-12871-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 478 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

Reihe: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series

Social workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent biomedical trends in psychiatry appear to minimize the importance of their traditional concerns, which focus on the social environment that accompanies mental disorders and their treatment. In twenty-four chapters written by distinguished scholars this book not only calls attention to this emerging problem and challenges conventional mental health beliefs and practices, but also raises provocative questions: Has social work become too closely associated with psychiatry and too quick to adopt a medical approach? Has the focus on the therapeutic relationship negated social work's commitment to social reform? Is the social worker marginalized by the emphasis in mental health on biochemistry and psychopharmacology?

This book calls on social workers and other health care professionals to be more skeptical about diagnosis, community treatment, evidence-based practice, psychotherapy, medications, and managed care.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirk, Stuart A.

Kirk, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Critical Perspectives, by Stuart A. KirkASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSISBalancing act: Assessing strengths in mental health practice, by Dennis SaleebeyTHE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF INTERVENTIONSThe limits of diagnostic criteria: The role of social context in clinicians'judgments of mental disorder, by Derek Hsieh, Stuart A. KirkEVIDENCE-GUIDED PRACTICEMapping practice: Assessment, context, and social justice, by Mark MattainiPSYCHOTHERAPY AND SOCIAL WORKDisorders versus problems in living in DSM: Rethinking social work's relationship to psychiatry, by Jerry C. WakefieldQUESTIONING PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONSDiagnosis an act of faith: The probabilistic nature of diagnosis, by William R. NugentETHICS, LAWS AND REGULATIONSAssessing the scientific status of schizophrenia, by John Bola, Deborah PittsTo stem the tide of degeneracy: The eugenic impulse in social work, by Amy LaPan, Tony PlattAssertive Community Treatment: The case against the "best tested" evidence-based community treatment for severe mental illness, by Tomi GomoryEmpowerment The foundation for social work practice in mental health, by Stephen M. RoseSelf-help mental health agencies, by Steven P. SegalPower, gender, and the self: Reflections on improving mental health for males and females, by Sarah Rosenfield, Kathy PottickEvidence-based practice: Breakthrough or buzzword?, by William J. Reid, Julanne ColvinCritical thinking, evidence-based practice and mental health, by Eileen GambrillMental health and practice guidelines: Panacea or pipedream?, by Matthew O. Howard, Tonya Edmond, Michael G. VaughnPutting Humpty together again: Treatment of mental disorders and pursuit of justice in social workís mission, by Jerry C. WakefieldThe problem of psychotherapy in social work, by William EpsteinThe misfortunes of behavioral social work: Misprized, misread, and misconstrued, by Bruce A. ThyerClinical psychopharmacology trials: "Gold standard" or foolís gold?, by David CohenTreatment of newly diagnosed psychosis without anti-psychotic drugs: The Soteria project, by John Bola, Loren Mosher, David CohenPsychosocial side effects of drug treatment of youth, by Tally Moses, Stuart A. KirkSocial work, mental health, and mental disorders: The ethical dimensions, by Frederic ReamerManaged care and mental health, by Kevin Corcoran, Stephen Gorin, Cynthia MonizInvoluntary medications of the mentally ill: Continuing controversy, changing scene, by Donald Dickson

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart A. Kirk holds the Marjorie Crump Chair in the Department of Social Welfare at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Policy and Social Research. Among his books are The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry and Making Us Crazy: DSM The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (both with Herb Kutchins), as well as Science and Social Work: A Critical Appraisal (with William J. Reid). He lives in Oak View, California.