Item Tag: Social Work

Empowerment Series: Becoming An Effective – Hardcover, by Jansson Bruce – Good

Empowerment Series: Becoming An Effective Policy Advocateby Jansson, Bruce Description: It’s a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.Product ID: 130594335X-11-1

(Mis)Diagnosed

(Mis)Diagnosed “A passionate and well-informed study on the importance of improving inclusiveness in mental health evaluations.”â??Kirkus ReviewsIn a clear, empathetic style, Jonathan Foiles, author of the critically acclaimed This City Is Killing Me, takes us through troubling examples of bias in mental health work. Placing them in context of past blunders in the history of psychiatry and the DSM, he looks closely at questions that lay bare the intersections between mental health care, race, gender, and sexuality: Why are women more likely to be labeled borderline personalities? Is transphobia being treated today like homosexuality was in the past? Has “protest psychosis,” a term used to diagnose Black men during the civil rights era, simply been renamed schizoaffective disorder? How different is our current label of “intellectual disability” from the history of eugenics? What does it actually mean to be diagnosed with a “mental illness”? This slim but wide-ranging collection of essays wrestles with these questions and offers potential ways forward in a world where mental health diagnoses can be helpful, but not necessarily absolute.A pragmatic and sympathetic guide to how we might craft a better and more just therapeutic future for all people.

(Mis)Diagnosed

(Mis)Diagnosed “A passionate and well-informed study on the importance of improving inclusiveness in mental health evaluations.”â??Kirkus ReviewsIn a clear, empathetic style, Jonathan Foiles, author of the critically acclaimed This City Is Killing Me, takes us through troubling examples of bias in mental health work. Placing them in context of past blunders in the history of psychiatry and the DSM, he looks closely at questions that lay bare the intersections between mental health care, race, gender, and sexuality: Why are women more likely to be labeled borderline personalities? Is transphobia being treated today like homosexuality was in the past? Has “protest psychosis,” a term used to diagnose Black men during the civil rights era, simply been renamed schizoaffective disorder? How different is our current label of “intellectual disability” from the history of eugenics? What does it actually mean to be diagnosed with a “mental illness”? This slim but wide-ranging collection of essays wrestles with these questions and offers potential ways forward in a world where mental health diagnoses can be helpful, but not necessarily absolute.A pragmatic and sympathetic guide to how we might craft a better and more just therapeutic future for all people.