Main description:

This book presents respected experts, researchers, and clinicians providing the latest developments in social work knowledge and research. It discusses the latest in mental health research, information on violence, trauma and resilience, and social policies. Different mental health and social work approaches from around the world are examined in detail, including holistic, ethnopsychiatric, and interventions that place emphasis on recovery, empowerment, and social inclusion. This superb selection of presentations-taken from the 4th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health held in Quebec, Canada in 2004-comprehensively examines the theme of how social work can contribute to the development of a world that values compassion and solidarity.

The volume offers a unique opportunity for practitioners, researchers, and others in the field to explore respected experts' experiences and research which can spark further development of knowledge that can ultimately enrich humanity as a whole. This timely resource springs from the emerging tradition of the sharing of knowledge, an idea now deeply rooted in the international community of social workers in the areas of health and mental health. This volume is extensively referenced and includes figures and tables to clearly detail information.

This book is enlightening reading for practitioners, administrators, educators, researchers, and students of social work.

This book was published as a special issue of Social Work in Mental Health.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

1. Social Work and the Development of a More Compassionate World: Experiences and Knowledge to Share Myreille St-Onge and Serge Dumont

SECTION 1: MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH IN SOCIAL WORK

2. Mental Health Services Research and its Impact on Social Work Practice with Adults with Severe Mental Illness Phyllis Solomon

3. The Challenges of Implementing an Evidence-Based Practice to Meet Consumer and Family Needs in a Managed Behavioural Health Care Environment Mary C. Ruffolo, Sue Ann Savas, David Neal, Jeff Capobianco, and Kathy Reynolds

4. Needed: Critical Thinking About Psychiatric Medications David Cohen

5. Beyond Survivorship: Achieving a Harmonious Equilibrium Using a Chinese Medicine Framework in Health and Mental Health S. M. Ng, Cecilia Chan, Pamela P.Y. Leung, Celia H.Y. Chan, and Josephine K.Y. Yau

6. A Critical Approach to Pedagogy in Mental Health Marty Dewees and Lisa K. Lax

7. Ethnopsychiatric Approach to Immigration and Mental Health Marie-Rosaire Kalanga Wa Tshisekedi

8. Aging and Mental Health Neena L. Chappell

9. Representations of Elderly with Mental Health Problems Held by Psychosocial Practitioners from Community and Institutional Settings Bernadette Dallaire, Michael McCubbin, Normand Carpentier, and Michele Clement

10. Intensive Youth Outreach in Mental Health-An Integrated Framework for Understand and Intervention Victoria Ryall, Alessandra Radovini, Leanne Crothers, Carsten Schley, Karen Fletcher, Simon Nudds, and Cate Groufsky

11. The Young Schema Questionnaire in Group Therapy: A Client-Focused Approach Kathy Fitzsimmons, Sheila Gallagher, Sandra Blayone, Debbie Chan, Wendy Leaitch, Nancy Veals, and Nancy Wilkinson

SECTION 2: VIOLENCE, TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE

12. Responding to the Individual Trauma of Domestic Violence: Challenges for Mental Health Professionals Catherine Humphreys

13. Violence in the Lives of Lesbian Women: Implications for Mental Health Batya Hyman

14. Reclaiming Stolen Identities: Resilience and Social Justice in Mid-Life Carol Irizarry

15. Psychiatry, Testimony and Shoah: Reconstructing the Narratives of the Muted Baruch Greenwald, Oshrit Ben-Ari, Rael D. Strous, and Dori Lau

SECTION 3: SOCIAL POLICY

16. Evidence-Based Policy and Social Work in Health and Mental Health Edward J. Mullen

17. Policy Barriers to the Employment of People Experiencing Psychiatric Disabilities Janki Shankar