Critical Issues in Child Welfare (Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series)
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The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals: An A-Z Guide to Responsible Practice
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Everything you need to know to protect your practice against ethical violations and complaints The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals is a valuable, easy-to-use resource for all mental health service providers. Written by two attorneys specializing in legal and ethical issues in mental health, this indispensable guide arms you with The expert knowledge you need to avoid an ethical violation–or to handle The situation if a complaint is filed. Barton Bernstein and Thomas Hartsell Jr. tackle dozens of ethical questions using The codes of several mental health professional associations and provide practical guidelines for avoiding ethically questionable behavior. Organized alphabetically for easy reference, this complete A-to-Z guide:
- Provides clear, concise answers to ethical questions–from The simple to The complex
- Covers key categories, including confidentiality, dual relationships, sexual misconduct, false and misleading statements, malpractice, drug and alcohol use, documentation, record keeping, closing a practice (retirement or death), responding to a subpoena, and more
- Features step-by-step guidance, helpful case studies, and “ethical flash points” that alert you to warning signs and help you steer clear of ethically questionable situations
- Covers The role of state licensing boards and national mental health associations in responding to complaints of ethical violations
Even an unintentional ethical violation can lead to personal and professional disaster. The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals helps you protect yourself, your future, and your practice–and lets you focus on The best interests of your clients.
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Using DSM-IV: A Clinician’s Guide to Psychiatric Diagnosis
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DSM-IV is here, and mental health professionals–whether they applaud its rigor or decry its rigidity–will have to know how to use it. Like its predecessor, DSM-III, DSM-IV is empirically based and a theoretical. The psychodynamics of mental disorders and their etiologies are not considered. Its principal advantage is that it provides a reliable system of diagnosis. Its principal flaw is that it can lead the clinician to focus too exclusively on categorizing symptom clusters rather then on empathically understanding the person who is suffering the symptoms. In Using DSM-IV: A Clinician’s Guide to Psychiatric Diagnosis, Dr. Anthony LaBruzza and Jose Mendez-Villarrubia offer the needed supplement to the DSM-IV. Their book, a veritable road map for DSM-IV, explains the technical language and hierarchical classifications of DSM-IV while it demonstrates how the system can be adapted to a clinical approach. In cogent prose replete with examples, the authors show how to use DSM-IV to arrive at accurate diagnoses that include rather than forsake dynamic conceptualizations of clients’ psychological functioning. The authors review each DSM-IV diagnostic category, helping the reader to see what clients with a specific pathology look like, what is actually needed to qualify for the disorder, and what similar disorders to rule out. Because theirs is a fundamentally humane and clinical approach to mental illness, LaBruzza and Mendez-Villarrubia suggest that any interview, even a mental status exam, should be a helpful experience for the client. They show how to embed a diagnostic interview in the on going clinical assessment and to relate to and understand each client as unique, even while finding the right diagnostic category for him or her. This attunement to individuals also enables LaBruzza and Mendez-Villarrubia to consider issues of cultural diversity. Both authors have extensive experience working with large Hispanic populations and have included an in-depth chapter on assessing Hispanic clients and, in particular, on assessing the prototypic folk illness category ataque de nervios. In this new era of managed health care and increasing scrutiny of clinicians’ work, the demand for uniform, accurate diagnoses has never been higher. Facility with the DSM-IV system is imperative. But so too is a thoughtful understanding of clients. Using DSM-IV: A Clinician’s Guide is the one resource that can help clinicians combine descriptive and dynamic orientations to clients to produce competent diagnoses and useful pictures of psychodynamics. As an explanatory and inclusive manual of DSM-IV, it is the essential book.
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Clinical Psychology: Concepts, Methods, and Profession (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)
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In this new edition, co-author, Timothy Trull, a specialist in psychopathology, Clinical assessment, and personality disorders, has put together a major revision of this best-selling text. As this edition’s new lead author, Trull has enhanced the book’s readability, modernized its content, condensed and brightened its presentation, and added significant new material. In addition to a thoroughly updated discussion of Clinical psychology, this edition sharpens its focus on empirically validated treatments and managed health care and offers increased coverage of culture and gender diversity in theory, research and practice.
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A Sacrifice of Praise, Second Edition
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A SAcrifice of PrAise is A one-volume collection of ChristiAn poetry in English compiled from A spectrum of poets who spAn twelve centuries. Beginning with CAedmon (cA.658-680), the poetry comes from the Anicent, medievAl, ReformAtion, And modern periods And from AnglicAn, RomAn CAtholic, ProtestAnt, And Orthodox poets, As well As mAinline And evAngelicAl trAditions. BecAuse poetry is A vehicle of prAise And exhortAtion, of meditAtion And understAnding, these selections include every form And style of reflection And psAlm, from privAte, personAl devotion to hymns And epic forms with godly themes.
In Addition to the poetry, eAch chApter includes An introduction And time line meAnt to provide A bAckground AgAinst which reAders cAn better understAnd the intricAcies And nuAnces of the poets And their work. Short biogrAphicAl introductions to eAch poet Are briefly introduced Alongside their poetry.
We who speAk English hAve twelve centuries of ChristiAn poetry behind us. It is A deep And broAd streAm of prAise, frequently poured out by men And women who died for the fAith in the midst of persecution. While the glory of God mAy hAve been diminished by sectAriAn motives of some poets, the chAnnel of the streAm hAs AlwAys been fAith, An unbroken succession of men And women who hAve prAised God. Thus while A SAcrifice of PrAise mAy instruct those who write poetry, it is ultimAtely A hymnbook for All of God’s people.
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A Framework for Survival: Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters
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WArs And nAturAl disAsters–from the BAlkAns to the SudAn, And from AfghAnistAn to CentrAl AfricA–hAve increAsingly plAced humAnitAriAn workers in the crossfire. Kevin M. CAhill hAs Assembled An internAtionAl teAm of renowned experts to offer A much-needed Assessment of the morAl, legAl And politicAl dilemmAs And consequences of humAnitAriAn AssistAnce.
Focusing on heAlth issues, A FrAmework for SurvivAl tAkes An unflinching look At the reAlity fAcing the nAtions And people involved, from refugees to relief orgAnizAtions. In contrAst to conventionAl militAry, economic And geopoliticAl strAtegies, it suggests rAtionAl And effective solutions And foreign policy recommendAtions. With the collApse of mAny government infrAstructures since the end of the Cold WAr, the success or fAilure of humAnitAriAn efforts mAy, to A lArge extent, define the world’s chAnces for survivAl.
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The Ultimate Bible Outline Book: Every Book of the Bible Made Simple
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WheTher you are a first time reader or seasoned Bible student, this volume will help you to appreciate The main Themes of each of The sixty-six Bible books, as well as every chapter within Them. A treasure trove of Bible study material, features and lessons, it is in essence one vast do-it-yourself Bible study course, broken down into hundreds of short, easily managed studies. It will help you to know Jesus better.
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At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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Sontag’s incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer’s responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century.
At the Same Time gAthers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag’s life, when her work was being honored on the internAtional stage. She writes of the freedom of literAture, about courage and resistance, and fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradAtion of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib.
David Rieff describes his mother’s passion in his foreword: “She wanted to experience everything, taste everything, go everywhere, do everything. Indeed, if I had only one word with which to evoke her, it would be avidity. . . . I think thAt, for her, the joy of living and the joy of knowing really were one and the same.”
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