Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: Psychopathology: A Competency-Based Assessment Model for Social Workers / Edition 3

by Susan W. Gray, Marilyn R. Zide

Overview

Written by social workers, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY views mental disorders through the strengths-perspective. It is unique in its ability to summarize the current state of knowledge about mental disorders and applies a competency-based assessment model for understanding psychopathology. Complete with detailed and realistic vignettes that are unavailable in other texts for the course, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY presents strategies for building on clients' strengths and resilience and offers insights to social workers regarding their role in working with the mentally ill.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780840029157
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	04/27/2012
Series:	Psychopathology Series
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Susan W. Gray has been a member of the Barry University faculty since 1980. She earned a BA from Caldwell College for Women, an MSW at Rutgers University, an Ed.D. at Nova Southeastern University, and an MBA and Ph.D. from Barry University. Dr. Gray is a licensed clinical social worker and brings to Barry a diverse clinical practice background. Her professional interests include clinical supervision, licensure and professional regulation, community mental health, and professional practice in rural areas.


Marilyn Zide was a professor at Barry University, where she taught full time. In addition, she maintained a private practice and also provided agency-based consultation and training workshops in her areas of expertise which included solution-focused therapy, cultural diversity/sensitivity, and bereavement group-work.

Read an Excerpt

One Flesh

They are sitting at opposite ends of the old horsehair sofa waiting for something to happen. A rainy summer night, or is it a rainy autumn night, smelling of wet leaves. A muffled reedy music permeates the room like remembered music in which rhythm is blurred. One by one enormous soft-winged insects fly toward them, or scuttle above their heads on the ceiling. Several clocks tick in unison, sounding like a single clock.

The Assignation. Copyright © by Joyce Oates. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to the Competency-Based Assessment Model. 2. Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence. 3. Cognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia. 4. Substance-Related Disorders. 5. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. 6. Mood Disorders. 7. Anxiety Disorders. 8. Somatoform, Factitious, and Malingering Disorders. 9. Dissociative Disorders. 10. Eating Disorders. 11. The Personality Disorders. Appendix. Glossary. Name Index. Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

In 44 short narratives, ``Oates has captured precisely an essential presence and instant in the lives of her characters,'' commented PW. `` Logical as daydreams, with endings similarly as interrupted or unforeseen, these stories reveal a master of the form, writing at her efficient, full-tilt best .'' (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

From the ever-prolific Oates comes a collection of very short stories of sad romance. Her characters, thoughtful and disturbed, are familiar figures to her fans, and even some of the very brief stories flash and sparkle. Too often, however, this collection seems to consist of literary exercises and cast-offs from would-be novels, fragments without a story to bind them together. Emotional, sexy, and bleak, these snippets tantalize but rarely amount to much. For comprehensive collections. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.

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