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Provides a biopsychosocial treatment guide to those suffering from mental illness.
Interventions for Severe Mental Disorders: Working with Individuals and their Families prepares the beginning social work practitioner to work with some of the most challenging clients seen at public community mental/behavioral health care services. This title includes how to develop and maintain a therapeutic alliance with individuals with serious mental illness; how to manage and overcome the impact of stigma; how to manage a client’s lack of insight and facilitate illness awareness; and how to work with and engage involuntary and resistant clients. Readers will learn how to overcome potential barriers to effective treatment engagement with individuals suffering from severe mental illness (SMI). Mental illnesses addressed include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, paranoid disorder, severe personality disorders and substance abuse problems.
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Table of Contents:
In This Section:
I) Brief Table of Contents
II) Detailed Table of Contents
I) Brief Table of Contents
PART I:UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL AND CURRENT CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH INDIVIDUALS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS (SMI) AND THEIR FAMILIES
Chapter 1: Understanding How Societies Have Cared for and Treated Individuals with Severe Mental Illness: Ancient Times to the Rise of the Asylum to Community-Based Mental Health Care
Chapter 2: 1950s to the Present: The Community Mental Health Services Act, Deinstitutionalization, Evidence-Based Practice, and Current Status of Public Mental Health Services: The Rise and Evolution of the Family Movement, Consumer Movement, and the Recovery Model
Chapter 3: Legal and Ethical Issues Relevant to Practice with Individuals with Serious Mental Illness and Their Families
PART II:FOUNDATION PRACTICE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS WITH SMI AND THEIR FAMILIES
Chapter 4: Overcoming Barriers to Treating Clients with Serious Mental Illness and Developing and Maintaining a Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 5: Working with Legally and Socially Involuntary Clients
Chapter 6: Social Work Practice with Clients with Severe Mental Illness from Diverse Client Groups
Chapter 7: Understanding and Working with the Families of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Chapter 8: Social Work Practice and Psychopharmacology for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
Chapter 9: Case Management
PART III:INTERVENTION PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES WITH SPECIFIC TYPES OF SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS AND RELATED ISSUES
Chapter 10: Practice with Individuals with Schizophrenia and Their Families
Chapter 11: Practice with Individuals with Paranoid Symptoms and Paranoid Disorders
Chapter 12: Social Work Practice with Individuals with Major Mood Disorders and Their Families, and Suicide Assessment
Chapter 13: Social Work Practice with Individuals with Personality Disorders
Chapter 14: Practice with Individuals with Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Problems and Their Families
II) Detailed Table of Contents
PART I:UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL AND CURRENT CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH INDIVIDUALS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS (SMI) AND THEIR FAMILIES
Chapter 1: Understanding How Societies Have Cared for and Treated Individuals with Severe Mental Illness: Ancient Times to the Rise of the Asylum to Community-Based Mental Health Care
Introduction
The Early History of the Care and Treatment of Individuals with Mental Illness/Abnormal Behavior
Moving into the Twentieth Century and Contemporary Views about Mental Illness/Abnormal Behavior
Chapter 2: 1950s to the Present: The Community Mental Health Services Act, Deinstitutionalization, Evidence-Based Practice, and Current Status of Public Mental Health Services: The Rise and Evolution of the Family Movement, Consumer Movement, and the Recovery Model
The Effects of Institutionalization
Moving from the Asylum to the Community
The Results of Deinstitutionalization: A Failed Policy Based on Good Intentions
The Concept of Recovery and the Emphasis on Evidence-Based Practice
The Status of Public Mental Health Services Today
The Status of Psychiatric Social Work from the 1950s to the Present Time
Chapter 3: Legal and Ethical Issues Relevant to Practice with Individuals with Serious Mental Illness and Their Families
Basic Principles of Community Mental/Behavioral Health Practice
The Importance of Prevention in Community/Behavioral Health Social Work
Values and Ethics
Legal Issues and Social Work Practice: Involuntary Civil Commitment
Other Legal Issues and Social Work Practice
Resolution of the Case of Jack and Bob
PART II:FOUNDATION PRACTICE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS WITH SMI AND THEIR FAMILIES
Chapter 4: Overcoming Barriers to Treating Clients with Serious Mental Illness and Developing and Maintaining a Therapeutic Alliance
Stigma
A Values Clarification Exercise Addressing Stigma and Bias
Resistance of Mental Health Professionals to Working with Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Affective Obstacles That Challenge Mental Health Professionals in Their Work with Clients with Serious Mental Illness
I Am Not Mentally Ill and I Don’t Need Help from You or Anybody Else
Rank Order Values Clarification Exercise
Chapter 5: Working with Legally and Socially Involuntary Clients
The Transtheoretical Model of How People Change
Application of Reactance Theory for Understanding the Behavior of Involuntary Clients
Strategies to Reduce Reactance
The Two Phases of Engagement with Involuntary Clients
Motivational Interviewing
Working with Involuntary Clients Role-Play Exercise
Chapter 6: Social Work Practice with Clients with Severe Mental Illness from Diverse Client Groups
Working with Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders with Serious Mental Illness Working with African-Americans with Serious Mental Illness
American Indians and Alaska Natives with Severe Mental Illness
Hispanic/Latino Americans with Severe Mental Illness
Women with Severe Mental Illness
Chapter 7: Understanding and Working with the Families of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Mental Illness Brings Families to Crisis
Parallels between Mental Illness and Alcoholism and Other Addictions for Families
The Five Phases Families Go through When Mental Illness Emerges in a Family Member
A Social Worker’s Personal Account of Living with a Loved One with Mental Illness Family Psychoeducation
Self-Help and Advocacy Resources for Families
Skill Development Exercises for Working with Consumers and Families
Chapter 8: Social Work Practice and Psychopharmacology for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
Psychopharmacology Principles in a Nutshell
How a Drug Moves through the Body
Antidepressant Medications
Antipsychotic Medications
Mood-Stabilizing Medications
Psychopharmacology and Special Populations
How Social Workers Can Promote Successful Medication Adherence
Psychopharmacology Case Analysis Role-Play Exercise
Chapter 9: Case Management
The Community Support System Network
Case Management in Community Mental/Behavioral Health Practice
Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT)
Supported Employment
Permanent Supportive Housing
PART III:INTERVENTION PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES WITH SPECIFIC TYPES OF SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS AND RELATED ISSUES
Chapter 10: Practice with Individuals with Schizophrenia and Their Families
What Is Schizophrenia?
Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia
Chapter 11: Practice with Individuals with Paranoid Symptoms and Paranoid Disorders
What Is Paranoia?
The Experience of Being Paranoid
Paranoia in Our Society
The Paranoid Style
Types of Clinical Paranoid Disorders
Causes of Paranoia: Survival, the Human Brain, and Paranoia
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Impact of Race, Culture, and Ethnicity on the Development of Paranoid Symptoms
Paranoid Symptomatology in Older Adults
Treatment of Paranoid Symptoms and Conditions
Chapter 12: Social Work Practice with Individuals with Major Mood Disorders and Their Families, and Suicide Assessment
Introduction: The Types and Symptoms of the Various Disorders of Mood
Depression
What Depression Is and How It Is Treated
Bipolar Disorder
Suicide and Suicide Risk Assessment
Chapter 13: Social Work Practice with Individuals with Personality Disorders
Introduction
Overview of Cross-Cutting Characteristics of Personality Disorders
What Brings the Person with a Personality Disorder into Treatment
Key Defense Mechanisms, Associated Behaviors, and Clinical Responses
Diagnosing Personality Disorders: The DSM approach
Specific Culture, Age, and Gender Features to Be Considered with Personality Disorders
Subtypes of Personality Disorder
Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy in Depth
Borderline Personality Disorder in Depth
Chapter 14: Practice with Individuals with Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Problems and Their Families
Introduction
Substances of Abuse
Etiological Theories of Substance Abuse The Faces of Comorbidity
Treating Clients with Comorbid Conditions
What Families Need to Know about Co-occurring Disorders
Personality Disorders and Substance Abuse
