Social Work and Mental Health: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice / Edition 1

by Sylvia I. Mignon MSW, PhD

Overview

Clear, comprehensive, and accessible, this textbook presents an overview of the contemporary American mental health system and its impact on clients and social workers. The failure of the system to provide quality care for the mentally ill is explored, including issues and policies that social workers face in accessing mental health care for their clients, while also discussing the ways in which social workers can improve the overall functioning of the system and promote the development and expansion of policy and practice innovations.

This is the first textbook to examine the lack of understanding of the roots of mental illness, the challenges in classification of mental disorders for social workers, and difficult behavioral manifestations of mental illness. By looking at the flaws and disparities in the provision of mental health services, especially in relation to the criminal justice system and homelessness and mental illness, social work students will be able to apply policy and practice to improve mental health care in their everyday work. A focus on the lived experiences of the mentally ill and their families, along with the experiences of social workers, adds a unique, real-world perspective.

Key Features:

• Delivers a clear and accessible overview and critique of social work in the broader context of mental health care in the US
• Reviews historical and current mental health policies, laws, and treatments, and assesses their impact on social services for the mentally ill
• Investigates racial and ethnic disparities in mental health provision
• Incorporates the experiences of people with mental illness as well as those of social workers
• Offers recommendations for future social work development of mental health policies and services
• Includes Instructors Manual with PowerPoint slides, chapter summaries and objectives, and discussion questions
• Addresses CSWE core competency requirements

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826164421
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	322
Sales rank:	499,017
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sylvia I. Mignon, PhD, MSW is Professor of Human Services, and Director of the MS in Human Services Program and the Forensic Services Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Social Work and the Mental Health System

Chapter 2 A Short History of Mental Health Policy and Treatment in the United States

Chapter 3 Views from the Inside: Mental Health Clients and Their Families

Chapter 4 Mental Illness Across the Life Cycle: Children, Adolescents, Adults, and Older Adults

Chapter 5 Social Work and Mental Illness: Labels and Diagnoses

Chapter 6 Social Work and Psychiatry: Psychotropic Medications and Brain Stimulation Techniques

Chapter 7 Gender, Race, Ethnicity and the Mental Health System

Chapter 8 Social Work, Mental Illness, and the Criminal Justice System

Chapter 9 No Place to Go: Homelessness and Mental Illness

Chapter 10 Views from the Field: Challenges in Mental Health Social Work

Chapter 11 Innovations in Mental Health Care

Chapter 12 Prevention and Future Issues in Mental Health Social Work