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Using the internet as a research tool for social work and human services
- Editor:
- MENON Goutham M.
- Publisher:
- Haworth
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 156p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
Includes papers on: using the Internet as a tool for research; the Internet as a virtually untapped tool for research; collecting data via the Internet; methodological and ethical challenges of researching a computer mediated group; prospects and limitations of psychological testing; integrating technology to enhance the research skills of minority mental health student researchers; an Internet based study of lesbian users in therapy with lesbian feminist therapists; problems and promises in the study of virtual communities; and conducting an experiment on the Web.
Container - contained: psychoanalytically informed work in a social services unit for disturbed adolescent boys
- Author:
- JAMES Anthony
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 23(3), Autumn 2002, pp.192-203.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author argues that psychoanalytic concepts are particularly relevant to the residential care of severely disturbed adolescents. From a psychoanalytic perspective, the inability to tolerate frustration, the propensity to action and the disturbance of thinking are important areas for therapeutic work. It is argued that psychoanalytically informed work can help make sense of what is often seen as wanton destructiveness, and help maintain a therapeutic focus using the relationships formed with staff as a primary agent of therapeutic change.
Some considerations about personality structure in child psychosis
- Author:
- MORRA Mauro
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 28(3), December 2002, pp.283-303.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Some of the literature connected with child psychosis and autism is examined, together with different hypotheses about its psychological aetiology. Special attention is given to the problem of fixation/regression, which is quite controversial. An example is provided of a child, basically autistic, who can be seen as being in an intermediate state between a psychotic and an obsessional disorder. With this, another controversial problem arises: is there any similarity between the rituals of autism and those of obsessional neurosis? And what about the withdrawal of affects we find in both? A psychotherapy case is then presented. Further considerations are given in conclusion, dealing with the structure of childhood psychosis. Autism and confusional psychosis are considered as being basically one structure, with different pictures, easily interchangeable. Some features typical of the paranoid-schizoid position can be recognized: feelings of persecution, massive projective identification and fragmentation.
Pandora's box: the effect of diagnostic disclosure on a depressed patient
- Author:
- LEBOLT Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Social Work Journal, 30(3), Autumn 2002, pp.281-291.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
There is little literature on the effect of disclosure of psychiatric diagnosis on treatment. A case is presented in which the therapist suggests a depressed patient may be bipolar. Three concepts are utilized to understand the resultant impasse: empathic failure, intersubjective disjunction, and projective identification, and the subjugating third.
An interview with Joyce Edward: exemplary clinician, advocate, and scholar
- Author:
- MEYER William S.
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Social Work Journal, 30(3), Autumn 2002, pp.311-330.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
This article features an interview with Joyce Edward who is recognized for her many extraordinary contributions to clinical social work. Joyce has co-written or co-edited three exceptional books for the social work clinician, she has been an esteemed teacher and a vocal activist for quality mental health care. In this interview Joyce reflects on family influences, her work as a social caseworker, the psychoanalytic luminaries with whom she trained, her concerns about the clinical education of today's social work students, and finally, her perspective on managed mental health care.
The drugs don't work
- Author:
- WADDELL Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.09.02, 2002, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Psychiatric service users and mental health professionals have long debated the merits of therapy as opposed to medication, or at the very least therapy in addition to psychiatric drugs. And with the safety of so-called "clean" SSRI (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor) antidepressant drugs being brought into question by users and professionals, the need for effective, client-focused rather than "clock-focused" therapies seems ever more important.
Towards a new generation of therapeutic communities for troubled children and young people
- Author:
- BARNES-GUTTERIDGE William
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 23(1), Spring 2002, pp.61-74.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Residential therapeutic communities, which provide psychodynamic psychotherapy for troubled children and adolescents, are facing a crisis of credibility. A contributory cause of the crisis is the informed public's scepticism about the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy. The author argues that in order to regain their credibility therapeutic communities need to practice evidence-based therapy and to develop a shared theoretical perspective on how therapy may bring about psychological change. Concludes that neither a theoretical perspective not an outcome study by themselves is sufficient. Both are indispensable for a community to be capable of learning from experience.
Would older people use psychological services?
- Authors:
- AREAN Patricia A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 42(3), June 2002, pp.392-398.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article examines older patient preferences for psychological services, including the types of services they would be interested in and who should provide them. Seventy-nine percent of the sample surveyed said they would use any of the psychological services which were presented to them. Seventy-two percent preferred to talk to their primary care provider, and 46% of the sample indicated that they would also speak with a mental health worker or nurse about their problems. Few older people said they would attend group psychotherapy, but 69% said they would attend psychoeducational classes. Implications: Our findings suggest that older adults would be amenable to psychosocial services, particularly individual services and psychoeducational programming.
Managed clinical networks: their relevance to mental health services
- Authors:
- HOLMES Jeremy, LANGMAACK Claus
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(5), May 2002, pp.161-163.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
This article describes managed clinical networks, their strengths and limitations and possible applications to managing psychiatric services.
Effectiveness of time-limited psychotherapy for minor psychiatric disorders: Randomised controlled trial evaluating immediate v. long-term effects
- Authors:
- BLAY Sergio Luis, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 180, May 2002, pp.416-422.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This study evaluates the effectiveness of brief group dynamic psychotherapy (BGDP) intervention in patients with minor psychiatric disorders compared with the usual clinical management shortly after treatment termination and to investigate whether intervention would show a differential effect at 2-year follow-up. Patients were allocated randomly to an experimental or control group. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was used as a primary outcome measure. Results found psychotherapy appeared to have beneficial effects at termination of treatment but the changes attained were not stable.