Mental health care of deaf people : a culturally affirmative approach / edited by Neil S. Glickman, Sanjay Gulati.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glickman, Neil S.

Gulati, Sanjay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deaf people--Mental health services--United States.

Deaf people.

Deafness--Social aspects.

Deafness.

Deaf people--Mental health services.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: MS Word and Paint.

text file

Summary:

Deaf adults and children, like their hearing counterparts, experience a full range of mental health problems. They develop psychoses, sink into depressions, abuse alcohol and drugs, commit sexual offenses, or simply have trouble adjusting to life situations. But when a deaf client appears on the doorstep of an ordinary hospital, residential facility, clinic, or office, panic often ensues. Mental Health Care of Deaf People: A Culturally Affirmative Approach offers much-needed help to clinical and counseling psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses and other mental health professionals -- and to their program administrators. The editors (a psychologist and a psychiatrist) and the authors (leading authorities with a variety of experitises) systematically review the special needs of deaf patients, particularly those who regard themselves as "culturally Deaf," and provide professionals with the tools they require to meet those needs. Among them is an extensive "library" of pictorial questionnaires and information sheets developed by one of the very few psychiatric units in the country devoted to the deaf. These handouts greatly simplify the processes involved in the diagnosis and treatment of people who in many cases are not good readers of English -- for example, explaining psychiatric symptoms and medication side effects. The handouts are reproduced on a CD included in each copy of the book, to enable purchasers to print out and use copies in their work. This comprehensive clinical guide and its accompanying CD constitute vital resources for all those who seek to provide sensitive, effective mental health care to deaf people.

Contents:

Prologue: My Story / Jan DeVinney xxi

1 Culturally Affirmative Mental Health Treatment for Deaf People: What it Looks Like and Why it is Essential / Neil Glickman 1

2 Psychiatric Care of Culturally Deaf People / Sanjay Gulati 33

3 Psychological Evaluation of Deaf Children / Terrell Clark 109

4 Culturally Affirmative Inpatient Treatment With Psychologically Unsophisticated Deaf People / Neil Glickman 145

5 Sensory Strategies for Self-Regulation: Nonlinguistic Body-Based Treatment for Deaf Psychiatric Patients / Diane Trikakis, Nancy Curci, Helen Strom 203

6 Culturally Affirmative Residential Treatment Services for Deaf Children With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders / Judy Vreeland, Jim Tourangeau 239

7 Culturally Affirmative Substance Abuse Treatment for Deaf People: Approaches, Materials, and Administrative Considerations / Debra Guthmann, Katherine A. Sandberg 261

8 Toward Culturally Affirmative Assessment and Treatment of Deaf People With Sexual Offending Behaviors / Susan Lemere 305

9 Does God have a Cochlear Implant? / Michael A. Harvey 327

Epilogue: When the Therapist Is Deaf / Sanjay Gulati 347

Appendix Contents of the Accompanying CD / Skill Card Illustrator: Michael Krajnak 373.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805844694

OCLC:

50269924