Social Work and Global Mental Health: Research and Practice Perspectives (Paperback)

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