Clinical assessment and diagnosis in social work practice /

Clinical assessment and diagnosis in social work practice / Jacqueline Corcoran, Joseph Walsh.

"Guides social workers in developing competence in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) system of diagnosis, and assists them in staying attuned during client assessment to social work values and principles"--Provided...

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Main Author: Corcoran, Jacqueline.
Other Authors: Walsh, Joseph
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
Mental illness > Classification.
Mental illness > Diagnosis.
Psychiatric social work.
Social service.
Mental disorders.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Social work and the DSM : person-in-environment versus the medical model
  • Disorders with onset in childhood
  • Mental retardation
  • Autism
  • Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder
  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Disorders with onset in adolescence
  • Eating disorders
  • Depression
  • Substance use disorders
  • Sexual disorders : pedophilia
  • Disorders with onset in adulthood
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
  • Personality disorders
  • Disorders with onset in the elderly
  • Cognitive disorders.

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