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This ground-breaking text features information outlining the competency-based model for psychopathology, including cases illustrating the model in action. It also presents strategies for building on clients' strengths and resilience and offers insights to social workers regarding their role in working with the mentally ill. The text's ecological perspective approach captures a holistic perspective on the factors that impact behavior. The text also features appropriate treatment techniques that reflect social work values and ethics. Finally, this treatment book takes on a theme of professional competency, focusing on measurable outcomes in managed care settings--showing how a practitioner's intervention has been effective and efficient.
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This text is designed to complement Zide's and Gray's (both: social work, Barry U.) 2001 text, Psychopathology: A Competency-Based Assessment Model for Social Workers . Focusing on a client's capacities, strengths, and resources rather than pathology, the text provides an integrative context for helping adult clients find ways to resolve the real-life problems of living with mental illness. Coverage includes an overview of the competency-based treatment model and the major counseling theories supporting competency-based treatment, followed by chapters organized around merging the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or DMS classification of mental disorders with the treatment model. For graduate and undergraduate students in social work programs, practicing social workers, mental health counselors, family therapists, and related professionals. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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