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Counseling for the soul in distress : what every religious counselor should know about emotional and mental illness /
Learn how to help your congregants work cooperatively with mental health professionals! This revised edition of The Soul in Distress i is a reader-friendly overview of the full range of adult psychiatric disorders. Updated with new information on genetics, brain scans, heredity, developmental concer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Haworth Pastoral Press,
[2003]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conflicts and concerns of religion and psychiatry. A look backward
- Common roles
- Historical changes
- What psychiatry can do
- Parents, society, and heredity. The Freudian revolution : the shift to parental responsibility
- Effect on child rearing
- The shift to social causes
- Reactions to social changes
- Research on heredity of mental illness
- Conclusion
- Biochemistry, mental illness, and medication. What is a disease?
- The use of medication in psychiatry.
- Selecting the proper medication
- Mood disorders : depression and manic states. Prevalence of depression
- The nature of depression
- What causes depression?
- Environmentally induced depression : Phil
- A biologically induced depression : Bob
- Medical treatment
- Antidepressant medications
- Using antidepressants in other psychiatric conditions
- A look backward
- Beyond medication
- How can the clergy help?
- Schizophrenic Disorders. What is schizophrenia?
- A brief history
- What causes schizophrenia?
- Antipsychotic drugs (Neuroleptics)
- The role of the clergy
- Other psychotic disorders. Delusional disorder
- Schizophreniform disorder
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Brief psychotic disorder
- Shared psychotic disorder
- Psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition
- Treatment of the psychoses
- The role of the clergy.
- The neuroses. Anxiety disorders
- Somatoform disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- What can the clergy do about anxiety disorders?
- Alcoholism and drug abuse. What is alcoholism?
- Why do people drink alcohol?
- Drinking patterns
- How many people drink alcohol?
- Types of alcoholism
- Drug abuse
- Treatment of alcoholism and drug abuse
- The important role of alcoholics anonymous
- Substance abuse and the clergy.
- Organic Mental Disorders. Overview of organic mental disorders
- What causes organic mental disorders?
- Diagnosing organic brain disease
- Organic disease masquerading as emotional illness
- What can the clergy do?
- Personality disorders. How does the personality develop?
- Classification of personality disorders
- Understanding personality types
- Personality types and the clergy
- The psychological effects of loss. Losses large and small
- Defending against loss
- Recognizing stages of grief in the family
- Dealing with loss
- Loss and the clergy
- Sexual Problems in Our Culture. Recent changes
- The sexual disorders
- The paraphilias
- Sexual dysfunctions
- Treatment.
- Other sexual topics
- What can the clergy do?
- Eating disorders
- Early feeding
- An overview of eating disorders
- Anorexia nervosa
- Bulimia
- Binge-eating disorder
- Obesity
- Further research directions
- What the clergy can do
- Understanding stress. Stress : yesterday and today
- Human development and stress
- Stresses of childhood
- Adult stresses
- Stress on the job
- Identity problems
- The stress of loss
- Marital stress
- Coping with stress
- Exploring needs.
- Pastoral Ethics : a psychiatrist's view
- Confidentiality
- Transference and countertransference problems
- Countertransference
- Commitment
- Summary
- Psychotherapists : who, what, why, and when to refer. The psychiatrist's education
- Basic assumptions in psychiatry
- Types of psychotherapy
- Recent developments
- The competent psychotherapist
- Choosing a psychotherapist.