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Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work third edition
Author(s): Sonia Austrian (Author)
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication Date: 16 Feb. 2005
- Edition: third edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 0231135165
- ISBN-13: 9780231135160
Book Description
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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About the Author
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.
