Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families

Although most mental health and behavioral health professionals have encountered adoption triad members―birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted persons―in their clinical practice, the vast majority have had no formal or informal training on adoption issues. The Handbook of Adoption is the first text designed for mental health practitioners to specifically address the many dimensions of adoption-related issues which can and do affect adoption triad members, specifically in the United States.

Politics & Social Sciences

Baden, Amanda L.

Biafora, Frank A.

Camacho-Gingerich, Alina

Javier, Rafael Art.

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Although most mental health and behavioral health professionals have encountered adoption triad members—birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted persons—in their clinical practice, the vast majority have had no formal or informal training on adoption issues. The Handbook of Adoption is the first text designed for mental health practitioners to specifically address the many dimensions of adoption-related issues which can and do affect adoption triad members, specifically in the United States.

This book fills a critical gap in the cross-cultural literature by illuminating the bilingual experience in both its social and clinical contexts. Rafael Javier makes a convincing, empirically founded case for what he terms the bilingual mind, with its own particular approach to cognition, memory, and emotional and social development. Using this framework, he provides answers to important questions about the way bilingualism affects cognition and development.

The Bilingual Mind: Thinking, Feeling and Speaking in Two Languages (Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Springer

The Patient as the Center

The Patient as the Center: Integrating Psychodynamic Approaches with Other Mental Health Treatments

Herron, William G.

Mental Health

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This practical guide shows counselors how to make the healing benefits of psychodynamic "talk therapy" available to any client, including those limited in available sessions by insurance, financial restrictions, or agency policy. The current mental health system relies on a single model of medication and behavior therapies, motivated by economic expediency rather than treatment quality, which results in a revolving door of treatment that leaves society constantly vulnerable to the impact of mental illness. As a remedy, Integrating Psychodynamic Approaches with Other Mental Health Treatments: The Patient as the Center offers the integration of psychoanalytic and behavioral therapies and practices that are consistently evaluated for effectiveness and customized to each patient's needs. These include recognition of the complexity of mental illness, possible need for intervention throughout the life cycle, open access to treatment, adequate funding, long-term facilities, consistent retrofitting of treatments, and duration and frequency determined by patient-therapist arrangement. This resource is particularly useful for clinicians in training or early in their careers who are in the process of making decisions about the treatment approaches that make sense for them and their clients, as well as for the more seasoned clinicians jaded by bureaucracy that obstructs best treatment practice and seeking alternative approaches.

Domestic violence is endemic in our society, with an incident occurring every 18 seconds. Abuse of women is the single greatest cause of injury, more frequent than auto accidents, mugging and rape combined. A major issue facing mental health professionals is how to understand and deal with domestic violence in a society populated by a multiplicity of ethnic, cultural and linguistic groups. When and how to intervene is in part determined by an understanding of the victims' cultural surroundings. This book provides a framework for assessing and treating domestic violence, one that takes into account the multilayered interactions between individuals and their families, their ethnic groups and the larger society to which we all belong.

Domestic Violence: Assessment and Treatment

Bergman, Andrea J.

Jason Aronson, Inc.

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