Clinical assessment and diagnosis in social work practice
By: Jacqueline Corcoran, Joseph Walsh.
Contributors: Walsh, Joseph, 1952-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; Mental illness -- Classification; Mental illness -- Diagnosis; Psychiatric social work; Social service; Social Work, Psychiatric -- methods; Mental Disorders -- diagnosis; Mental Disorders -- classification
Genres: Classification.
Description: "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 by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview; title: Social work and the DSM; title: Disorders with onset in childhood; title: Mental retardation; title: Autism; title: Oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder; title: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; title: Posttraumatic stress disorder; title: Anxiety disorders; title: Disorders with onset in adolescence; title: Eating disorders; title: Depression; title: Substance use disorders; title: Sexual disorders - pedophilia; title: Disorders with onset in adulthood; title: Bipolar disorder; title: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; title: Personality disorders - borderline personality disorder; title: Disorders with onset in the elderly; title: Cognitive disorders.