Assessing, diagnosing, and treating serious mental disorders : a bioecological approach

Taylor, Edward H.,

Assessing, diagnosing, and treating serious mental disorders : a bioecological approach [E-Book] - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the bioecological mental health model and a personal story -- Theoretical foundations for treating bioecological mental disorders illnesses -- The family as treatment partners : moving beyond education and coping -- The comprehensive continuous assessment -- Schizophrenia -- Major depressive and dysthymic disorders : introduction and comparison between DSM-IV-TR and DSM-V -- Bipolar disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Personality disorders -- Child and adolescent mental disorders : an overview -- Into the future.

Assessing, Diagnosing, and Treating Serious Mental Disorders uniquely provides information that is useful across mental health, psychopathology, practice, and human behavior and development classes, particularly for psychopathology and advanced mental health practice courses. DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria is provided for each mental disorder discussed in the textbook. This book represents a new wave of social work education, focusing on mental disorders as an interaction among neurobiology, genetics, and ecological social systems. Edward Taylor argues that most all mental disorders have a foun.

9780199717262 0199717265 9781322153971 1322153973

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Mental illness--Diagnosis.
Mental illness--Environmental aspects.
Social ecology.
Mental Disorders--diagnosis
Social Environment

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