Neuroscience and social work practice : the missing link / Rosemary L. Farmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farmer, Rosemary L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical social work.

Neurosciences.

Social service.

Physical Description:

ix, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : SAGE, [2009]

Summary:

Over the past 30 years, findings in the neurosciences have grown exponentially and have provided a profound understanding of the link between behavior and biology. Although the social work community has long taken pride in using a bio-psycho-social-spiritual (BPSS) framework in conceptualization and intervention, the biological aspect of this BPSS framework has been sorely missing. Neuroscience and Social Work Practice provides the critical missing link. Introducing the latest neuroscience research, it gives practitioners essential data-in an easily accessible form-with which to take on the challenges of increasingly complex human problems and diagnoses.

Contents:

Linking to the neuroscientific revolution

Tour of the brain

Neuroscience as link : transactional model

Linking to social work : attaching and bonding

Linking to social work : trauma

Linking to social work : psychotherapy

Linking to social work : psychotropic medications and drugs of abuse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177) and index.

ISBN:

9781412926973

1412926971

9781412926980

141292698X

OCLC:

232002166