The most comprehensive textbook for students in advanced social work and mental health courses is now completely revised and updated for a new generationWhenAdult Psychopathology: A Social Work Perspectivewas first published in 1984, this pioneering text was the first to conceptualize and organize theory and practice about the treatment of the mentally ill within their families and communities from a social work perspective. Now, in response to new developments in theory and research, as well as changes in service delivery within the field, the second edition contains updated and accessible information on how mental illnesses develop and how they can be treated within a social work framework that recognizes the importance of family, economics, and culture as well as biochemical and psychodynamic factors. Each chapter is written by the leading social work authority on that subject and includes practical, in-depth discussion of state-of-the-art technologies, treatments, and research. The book encompasses the broad spectrum of topics that social workers need to understand, including personality, adjustment, schizophrenia, suicide, anxiety states, phobias, neurological disorders, psychosexual disorders, drug and alcohol addiction, eating disorders, and others.Adult Psychopathology, Second Editionis essential for both M.S.W. and Ph.D. social work students and, as the authoritative, unequaled reference book, will aid clinicians in making more precise diagnoses in their daily work.

Francis J. Turner, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University in Toronto. He is the editor of several Free Press books, including Social Work Treatment, Fourth Edition, and Differential Diagnosis and Treatment in Social Work. He is also Editor in Chief of International Social Work. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

1 Introduction

Francis J. Turner

2 A Transdisciplinary View of Mental Disorder

D. W. Millard

3 Case Management as a Strategy of Social Work Intervention with the Mentally Ill

Irene A. Gutheil and Roslyn H. Chernesky

4 The Biological Bases of Psychopathology

Harriette C. Johnson

5 Psychopharmacology and Clinical Social Work

Jacinta Marschke and Carol P. Kaplan

6 Social Work and the DSM

Marcia Brubeck

7 Neurological Disorders

Harriette C. Johnson and Daniel E. Jacome

8 Senescence

Kathleen Joyce Farkas

9 Alzheimer's Disease: Patient and Family Victimized

Daniel C. Andreae

10 Psychophysiologic Disorders

Mary S. Sheridan and Karen Kline

11 Developmental Disabilities in Aging Persons

Gary B. Seltzer

12 Schizophrenic Disorders

Joseph Walsh

13 Affective Disorders

Mary Kay O'Neil

Addendum: Affective Disorders: Mood Disorders

Mary Kay O'Neil

14 Anxiety Disorders

Bert L. Kaplan

15 Adjustment Disorders

Judith Mishne

16 Personality Disorders

Mary E. Woods

17 Borderline Personality Disorder

Harriette C. Johnson

18 Antisocial Personality Disorders

Michael Rothery

19 Disassociative Identity Disorder

Jim Lantz

20 Paranoid Disorders

Cheryl Regehr and Graham D. Glancy

21 Phobic Disorders

Ray Thomlison

22 Eating Disorders and Social Work

Jan Lackstrom

23 Psychosexual Disorders

Harvey L. Gochros

24 Alcohol Dependence

Donald E. Meeks and Marilyn A. Herie

25 Drug Addiction: A BPSI Model

M. Dennis Kimberley and Peter Bohm

26 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Conceptualized as a Problem in the Person-Environment System

Cathryn Bradshaw and Barbara Thomlison

27 Suicide

Howard M. Turney

Index