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Social Work Practice and Psychopharmacology: A Person-in-Environment Approach
This comprehensive text prepares social workers to play a key role within an interdisciplinary health care team, emphasizing the importance of counseling for clients that take mental health medications as part of their treatment. The third edition has been fully revised to include new medications and reflect changes resulting from the publication of the DSM-5. Sample treatment plans, case examples, and a full glossary of medications have been updated, and the addition of a comprehensive Instructors Manual further enhances the text's value. Also included is information on prescription drug abuse, expanded discussions of psychopharmacological considerations related to gender and culture, and new content on medical marijuana, pregnant women, suicide warnings, Internet availability, and electronic records. The third edition also features a discussion of potential interactions with medications used to treat chronic conditions and emphasizes professional collaboration.
The text is replete with guidance on common medicine-related issues social workers encounter in practice, including identifying potentially dangerous drug interactions and adverse side effects, improving medication compliance, recognizing the warning signs of drug dependence, and understanding how psychopharmacology can work in conjunction with psychosocial interventions. The text also addresses the particular needs of children, older adults, and pregnant women, and the treatment of specific mental health conditions.
Key Features:
Addresses the role of medication from the perspective of social work treatment
Delivers guidance on common challenges social workers encounter in practice
Encourages and empowers clients to be active in their own treatment
Identifies potentially dangerous drug interactions and adverse side effects
Explains how psychopharmacology works in conjunction with psychosocial interventions
The text is replete with guidance on common medicine-related issues social workers encounter in practice, including identifying potentially dangerous drug interactions and adverse side effects, improving medication compliance, recognizing the warning signs of drug dependence, and understanding how psychopharmacology can work in conjunction with psychosocial interventions. The text also addresses the particular needs of children, older adults, and pregnant women, and the treatment of specific mental health conditions.
Key Features:
Addresses the role of medication from the perspective of social work treatment
Delivers guidance on common challenges social workers encounter in practice
Encourages and empowers clients to be active in their own treatment
Identifies potentially dangerous drug interactions and adverse side effects
Explains how psychopharmacology works in conjunction with psychosocial interventions
452 pages, Paperback
Published April 18, 2016
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August 9, 2017
I found this book interesting but it was not as up to date as I would have liked and there were some significant typos.
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