Title Families and mental illness : new directions in professional practice / Diane T. Marsh

Published New York : Praeger, 1992

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MELB	363.2 Mar/Fam		AVAILABLE

Description xiv, 269 pages ; 25 cm Contents 1. Introduction -- Mental Illness -- The Sociohistorical Context -- The Impact on Families -- Family Needs and Need Satisfaction -- New Directions -- Plan of the Volume -- 2. The Conceptual and Empirical Context -- Historical Evolution of Conceptual Models -- Evaluating Conceptual Models -- Existing Models -- General Limitations of the Conceptual Territory -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 3. New Directions in Professional Practice -- New Modes of Family-Professional Relationships -- A Competence Paradigm for Professional Practice -- Applicability to Professional Practice with Families -- Implementing a Competence Paradigm -- Informed Consent -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 4. Life-span Perspectives -- The Individual Life Cycle -- The Family Life Cycle -- The Mental Illness Life Cycle -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 5. The Subjective Burden -- The Professional Literature -- The Literature of Family Members -- Components of the Subjective Burden -- Conceptual Frameworks -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 6. The Family System -- A Systems Framework -- The Objective Burden -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 7. Family Subsystems -- The Parental Subsystem -- Young Family Members -- The Spousal Subsystem -- The Extrafamilial Subsystem -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 8. Coping and Adaptation -- The Process of Adaptation -- Familial Stress -- Coping with the Stressor of Mental Illness -- Resilience -- Summarizing the Literature -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 9. The Needs of Families -- The Literature Concerned with Family Needs -- Summarizing the Literature -- Barriers to Meeting Family Needs -- Breaking Down Barriers -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 10. Nonclinical Intervention -- Educational Programs for Families -- Support Groups -- Developing a Nonclinical Program for Families -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 11. Clinical Intervention -- Differential Therapeutics with Families -- Treatment Planning Ethical Considerations -- Implications for Professional Practice -- 12. Making the System More Responsive -- Comprehensive Systems of Mental Health Care -- Increasing the Responsiveness of the Current System Analysis Mentally disordered persons Care Role of Families United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-264) and index Subject Families of the mentally ill -- United States. Family social work -- United States. Mentally ill -- Family relationships -- United States. Psychiatric social work -- United States. Family Relations [MESH] Family Relations. Mental Disorders [MESH] Mental Disorders. Social Work, Psychiatric [MESH] Social Work, Psychiatric. Family -- psychology. Mental Disorders. Social Work, Psychiatric. SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 LC no. 91033605 ISBN 0275940187 (alk. paper)

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