Working with families of psychiatric inpatients : a handbook for clinicians / Alison M. Heru and Laura M. Drury.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Heru, Alison M., 1953-

Contributor:

• Drury, Laura M., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Psychiatric hospital care.
• Families--Mental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Keyed to the requirements articulated by the American College of Graduate Medical Education, this handbook is a tool no psychiatric resident can do without.

Contents:

• What it takes to work with patients' families
• The biopsychosocial case formulation and treatment plan
• Research on families
• Family treatments
• Abbreviated assessment of the family
• Managing a family meeting
• Other inpatient interventions: multifamily psychoeducational groups and genograms
• The resident's perspective: attitudes and fears
• The family's perspective: sources of anxiety
• Risk management and the family / Patricia R. Recupero
• Family-based services after hospitalization.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-171) and index.

ISBN:

• 0-8018-9241-4
• 1-4356-9261-6

OCLC:

299755674