Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work

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For fellow social workers and students of the profession, Austrian (public health and psychiatry, Cornell U. and social work, Columbia U.) discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common mental disorders. Rather than a simple linear classification approach, she uses a broad bio-psychosocial ecosystems perspective, which takes into account each client's unique situation. Without noting the date of the first edition, she here expands the discussion of the effects of managed care, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and interpersonal therapy and includes a new model of short- term intervention.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR


Review
"This comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to the field of mental disorders for social work therapists is indispensable. The volume is a concise, user-friendly reference that answers the clinician's most frequent questions about all major psychiatric diagnoses, including the etiology, prognosis, recommended treatment options, and current, effective psychopharmacological interventions." -- Winifred Christ, Westchester Division, New York Hospital (of the first edition)


Winifred Christ Westchester Division, New York Hospital
This comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to the field of mental disorders for social work therapists is indispensable. The volume is a concise, user-friendly reference that answers the clinician's most frequent questions about all major psychiatric diagnoses, including the etiology, prognosis, recommended treatment options, and current, effective psychopharmacological interventions.


Book Description
This indispensable resource, written for social workers by a social worker, discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common disorders. Austrian goes beyond a linear classification approach, instead emphasizing a broad bio-psychosocial or ecosystems perspective, which takes into account each client's unique situation. In addition to including the most up-to-date information on new medications, biochemical data on disease causes, and diagnostic tests, the second edition also gives an overview and critique of Managed Care as it relates to the treatment of mental disorders.


About the Author
Sonia G. Austrian is director of the Employee Assistance Program Consortium serving the five New York City medical institutions. She teaches at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and at the Columbia University School of Social Work.


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For fellow social workers and students of the profession, Austrian (public health and psychiatry, Cornell U. and social work, Columbia U.) discusses the etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and intervention planning for common mental disorders. Rather than a simple linear classification approach, she uses a broad bio-psychosocial ecosystems perspective, which takes into account each client's unique situation. Without noting the date of the first edition, she here expands the discussion of the effects of managed care, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and interpersonal therapy and includes a new model of short- term intervention. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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