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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.

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Author:   Malcolm M Macfarlane ,  Malcolm M. Macfarlane
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.970kg
ISBN:  

9780789008800

ISBN 10:   0789008807
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   25 September 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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

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Malcolm M. MacFarlane, MA, is a graduate of the California Family Study Center in Burbank California (now renamed the Phillips Graduate Institute in Encino, California) with a Master of Arts in Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy. He is a Clinical Member and an Approved Supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), and is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist with the Registry of Marriage and Family Therapists in Canada and the Ontario Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. MacFarlane has worked as a frontline mental health clinician for fifteen years and is currently employed as a mental health therapist with Ross Memorial Hospital Community Counselling Services in Lindsay, Ontario, a rural community mental health center funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health. He has been a contributor to a number of professional journals as well as contributing to the text What Works! Innovation in Community Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Programs. He was a presenter on family therapy with brain-injured clients and their families at the AAMFT annual international conference in Toronto in 1996, and presented a workshop entitled “Family Therapy and Mental Health: 2000 and Beyond” at the AAMFT Millennium Summit Conference in Denver in 2000. He has qualified as an expert witness in the area of social work practice and family dynamics in family court.

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