The Social Worker and Psychotropic Medication: Toward Effective Collaboration with Mental Health Clients, Families, and Providers - Softcover

Kia J. Bentley; Joseph F. Walsh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534365426 ISBN 13: 9780534365424

Publisher: Brooks/Cole, 2000

Synopsis

This book is a practical and useful resource for social work students and practitioners as they fill and expand their daily roles in psychiatric medication management. The authors provide readers with the information they need to be aware, articulate, and active with respect to client's medication-related dilemmas, but also mindful of the sociopolitical context of prescription practice in psychiatry. All the facts, myths, and relevant information about psychotropic medication are presented to social workers in an easy-to-access manner. Professionals and students alike will find this book to be a practical resource that helps them to be more responsive to the medication-related concerns of their mental health clients and to work more collaboratively on these issues with families and other mental health care providers. Rich in case examples and within a contemporary framework of "partnership" practice, this book provides an up-to-date primer on psychopharmacology and a review of psychosocial interventions.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Kia J. Bentley is a licensed clinical social worker, tenured professor, and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she has taught since 1989. Her current teaching focuses on mental health and mental illness, psychopharmacotherapy and social work, clinical theory, and research. She is consulting editor for The Journal of Social Work Education and chapter member of the editorial board of Best Practices in Mental Health. In Virginia, she is the chair of the Human Rights Committee of Central State Hospital. She is the author of another Cengage Brooks/Cole text, SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN MENTAL HEALTH: CONTEMPORARY ROLES, TASKS, AND TECHNIQUES AND PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION ISSUES FOR SOCIAL WORKERS, as well as COUNSELORS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS (2003, HAWORTH).

Review:

"The most comprehensive discussion of the social worker's role in psychopharmacology today. . . . Bentley and Walsh's text should be required reading for social work students who plan to practice in any area of mental health service delivery."

"The only resource that covers medication issues specifically from the social work perspective . . . comprehensive . . . well written. An essential addition to the clinician's library."

"Simply one of the best texts on the market for social workers who want to improve their understanding of psychopharmacology."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks/Cole
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0534365426
• ISBN 13: 9780534365424
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240