Mental Disorders in the Social Environment: Critical Perspectives

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231128711
• ISBN13: 9780231128711
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher