Social Work

1. Community Mental Health: A Practical Guide

   Lorenzo Burti, Loren R. Mosher

   In this abridged and revised edition of their 1989 text, the authors focus on the what and how of effective community mental health. Following the guidelines outlined here will enable clinicians to provide services that are cost-effective, humane, and growth-promoting.More

2. Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook

   Susan Lukas

   A "sink or swim" philosophy frequently prevails in mental health settings today.More

3. Self-Delight in a Harsh World: The Main Stories of Individual, Marital, and Family Psychotherapy

   James Paul Gustafson

   This book is about the three kinds of plots that run the lives of patients--subservience, bureaucratic delay and overpowering. It is also about the three kinds of psychotherapy that attempt to deal with these plots: objective psychiatry, which deals with the outside surface; subjective psychiatry, which deals with the inside; and narrative psychiatry, which attempts to deal with both.More

4. Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age

   Peter D. Kramer

   Through fascinating case histories and revealing encounters with patients, Dr. Kramer provides a compassionate, immensely eloquent view of how psychiatry really works. Written by the author of the national bestseller, Listening to Prozac.More

5. Object Relations Therapy: Using the Relationship

   Sheldon Cashdan

   Cashdan's expertise as a teacher is amply demonstrated as he outlines the steps of object relations therapy, from engagement, through identification and confrontation within the therapy relationship--those centering around issues of dependency, sexuality, power, and ingratiation.More

6. Self Psychology in Clinical Social Work

   Miriam Elson

   Self psychology has a particular theoretical and clinical fit with social work practice, enhancing and deepening the treatment process with both children and adults and in individual and family therapy.More