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Mental Disorders in the Social Environment: Critical Perspectives
Kirk
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Description for Mental Disorders in the Social Environment: Critical Perspectives
paperback. 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. Editor(s): Kirk, Stuart A. Series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series. Num Pages: 478 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
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. In twenty-four chapters written by distinguished scholars this book not only calls attention to this emerging problem and challenges conventional mental health beliefs and practices, but also raises provocative questions: Has social work become too closely associated with psychiatry and too quick to adopt a medical approach? Has the focus on the therapeutic relationship negated social work's commitment to social reform? ... Read more
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. In twenty-four chapters written by distinguished scholars this book not only calls attention to this emerging problem and challenges conventional mental health beliefs and practices, but also raises provocative questions: Has social work become too closely associated with psychiatry and too quick to adopt a medical approach? Has the focus on the therapeutic relationship negated social work's commitment to social reform? ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series
Number of Pages
478
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231128711
SKU
9780231128711
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About Kirk
Stuart A. Kirk holds the Marjorie Crump Chair in the Department of Social Welfare at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Policy and Social Research. Among his books are The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry and Making Us Crazy: DSM-The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders (both with Herb Kutchins), ... Read more
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