Brooks Cole Empowerment Series: A Competency-based Assessment Model for Social Workers (Psychopathology)

Brooks Cole Empowerment Series: A Competency-based Assessment Model for Social Workers (Psychopathology)

by SusanGray (Author), Marilyn R . Zide (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 460
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers
Published: 04 May 2012

ISBN 10: 0840029152
ISBN 13: 9780840029157

Media Reviews
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.
Author Bio
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.