With chapters written by leading scholars and researchers, the third edition of A Handbook
for the Study of Mental Health provides an updated, comprehensive review of the sociology …

The chapter addresses the stigma associated with mental illnesses. It begins by
summarizing the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half …

Clinical psychologists have an ethical responsibility to monitor the nature and
appropriateness of their attitudes toward persons with mental illness. This article presents …

The managed care initiatives sweeping the nation are having a profound effect on the way
that social workers deliver services to people with severe mental illness. Social work, with its …

This study represents a continuation of our efforts to identify a cost-effective, doable,
practical intervention that, when added to the curriculum of future health professionals …

This fully revised and expanded fifth edition of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in
Context maintains its use of the Practice-in-Context (PiC) decision-making framework to …

This paper presents the findings from an innovative project in which people with mental
illness were incorporated in the classroom setting of social work students in Israel. This …

Abstract Administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory to 48 members (aged 23–77 yrs) of the
day program staff at a psychiatric rehabilitation facility in New York. Ss' length of employment …

" Empowerment" has become a widely used term in discussions of disability and
rehabilitation issues. However, the term has been given a confusing variety of meanings and …

Treatment resisters or system resisters?: Toward a better service system for acute care
recidivists Page 1 Patients who overutilize acute care services are responding to systemic as …