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Use these interventions and treatments to help people with mental health problems and their families!Family Therapy and Mental Health: Innovations in Theory and Practice explores the application of family therapy approaches to the treatment of a variety of mental health problems. A variety of treatment modalities are used with patients and their families to address these problems, including family psychoeducational approaches, the McMaster Model, cognitive behavioral family therapy, brief therapy, and systemic and narrative approaches. Each chapter of Family Therapy and Mental Health examines the gender and cultural issues that are relevant to the population and model it describes, and includes a case example. In addition, each chapter describes how the model is integrated with psychiatric services and examines the use of medication in each case. For complete contents, and to see our distinguished roster of contributors, please visit our Web site at http://www.haworthpress.comThis volume presents a variety of family therapy approaches to conditions that include:
schizophrenia
bipolar disorder
anxiety
depression
personality disorders
suicide
addictionsThere are also complete chapters describing family therapy approaches to special issues such as:
women and mental health
brain injury
aging
The text of Family Therapy and Mental Health: Innovations in Theory and Practice is written with a strong clinical focus and will be helpful and informative for frontline clinicians as well as students in graduate programs. The book's broad range, covering the mental health issues that clinicians typically encounter in the real world, ensures that they will find information they can use today and every day, and wisdom that students can carry with them through their careers.
Contents
Foreword (Dorothy S. Becvar)
Preface
Part I. Overview
Chapter 1. Family Therapy and Mental Health: Historical Overview and Current Perspectives (William C. Nichols and Malcolm M. MacFarlane)
Introduction
The Road to the Twenty-First Century
Family Therapy
Families and Theories of Causation of Mental Illness
Families and Treatment of Schizophrenia
Recent Events and Trends
Future Directions
Chapter 2. The Partnership Model: Working with Families of People with Serious Mental Illness (Eric D. Johnson)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations of the Model
Integration with Psychiatric Services and the Role of Medication
Cultural and Gender Issues
Future Directions
Part II. Traditional Populations
Chapter 3. Family Treatment of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder (Kim T. Mueser)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations
Integration with Psychiatric Services and Role of Medication
Cultural and Gender Issues
Future Directions
Chapter 4. Family Treatment of Depression and the McMaster Model of Family Functioning (Wilson McDermut, James W. Alves, Ivan W. Miller, and Gabor I. Keitner)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations
Integration with Psychiatric Services and Role of Medication
Cultural and Gender Issues
Future Directions
Chapter 5. Family Therapy for Panic Disorder: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach to Treatment (Kristie L. Gore and Michele M. Carter)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations
Integration with Psychiatric Services and Role of Medication
Cultural and Gender Issues
Future Directions
Chapter 6. Family Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (Ira D. Glick and Emily L. Loraas)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations
Integration with Psychiatric Services and Role of Medication
Cultural and Gender Issues
Future Directions
Chapter 7. Systemic Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in a Rural Community Mental Health Center: An Integrative Approach (Malcolm M. MacFarlane)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations
Integration with Psychiatric Services and Role of Medication
Cultural and Gender Issues
Future Directions
Chapter 8. The Psychoeducational Model and Case Management: The Role of Marital and Family Therapy in the Treatment of the Chronically Mentally Ill (Joan Keefler)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations
Integration with Psychiatric Services and Role of Medication
Cultural and Gender Issues
Future Directions
Chapter 9. Family Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder Through Relationship Enhancement Therapy (Marsha J. Harman and Michael Waldo)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations
Integration with Psychiatric Services and Role of Medication
Cultural and Gender Issues
Future Directions
Chapter 10. Treatment of Suicidal Clients and Their Families (Peter D. McLean and Lynn Miller)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations
Integration with Psychiatric Services and Role of Medication
Cultural and Gender Issues
Future Directions
Chapter 11. Family Therapy in Walk-In-Mental Health Centers: The Eastside Family Centre (Arnold Slive, Nancy McElheran and Ann Lawson)
Introduction
Setting
Treatment Model
Case Example
Strengths and Limitations
Integration with Psychiatric Services and Role of Medication
Cult
