Social Work Practice in Mental Health: An Introduction

Mental Health and Social Work

L.C.C. Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

set up in 1943 by the Medical Officer of Health of the L.C.C. in connection with the re-organization of the Council's Mental Health Services, and was compiled primarily for the use of Psychiatric and Mental Deficiency Social Workers in the Public Health Department. The actual information it contains is .therefore related to the methods used by one particular Authority, but so varied are the top...

Culturally sensitive social work practice with Arab clients in mental health settings.

Several culturally specific practical considerations should inform social work interventions with ethnic Arab peoples in Arab countries or in Western nations. These include taking into account gender relations, individuals' places in their families and communities, patterns of mental health services use, and, for practice in Western nations, the client's level of acculturation. Such aspects pro...

Is Graduate Social Work Education Promoting a Critical Approach to Mental Health Practice?

Council on Social Work Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 383 HISTORICALLY, the field of social work has been committed to work toward a “just society” (Reamer, 1993). This means that social work has often rejected mainstream institutional views and has offered or supported alternative viewpoints furthering its goal of a just society. In addition, evidence-based practice suggests that profess...