Mental Disorders in the Social Environment
Author | : Stuart Kirk |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2004-09-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780231128711 |
ISBN-13 | : 0231128711 |
Rating | : 4/5 (711 Downloads) |
Download or read book Mental Disorders in the Social Environment written by Stuart Kirk and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent biomedical trends in psychiatry appear to minimize the importance of their traditional concerns, which focus on the social environment that accompanies mental disorders and their treatment. This book calls attention to this emerging problem and challenges social workers and other health care professionals to be more skeptical about diagnosis, community treatment, evidence-based practice, psychotherapy, medications, and managed care.