Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment : A Guide for Pastoral Counselors

ISBN-13: 9780789018793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 150 str.

Thomas Culbertson; Gregory B. Collins

Opis

Collins (psychiatry and psychology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation) and Culbertson, rector of a large urban Episcopal Church in Baltimore, team up to inform student and practicing pastors about the fundamentals of psychiatric illness, theory, and treatment modalities. Their goal is to allow pastors to

Spis treści

• Foreword
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Function of Pastoral Care in a Holistic Healing Approach
• Chapter 1. An Overview of Psychiatry
• History of Psychiatry
• Modern Psychiatric Treatment
• Chapter 2. The Depressed Person
• Overview
• Case Examples
• Recognition
• Assessment of Severity
• Crisis Intervention
• Counseling in the Recovery Phase
• Chapter 3. The Anxious Person
• Overview
• Case Examples
• Recognition
• Assessment of Severity
• Crisis Intervention
• Counseling in the Recovery Phase
• Chapter 4. The Chemically Dependent Person
• Overview
• Case Examples
• Recognition
• Assessment of Severity
• Crisis Intervention
• Counseling in the Recovery Phase
• Chapter 5. The Person Experiencing Loss of Contact with Reality
• Overview
• Toxic-Metabolic Psychoses
• Depressive Psychoses
• Organic Psychoses
• Manic-Depressive Psychosis
• Schizophrenia
• Chapter 6. The Person with a Personality Disorder
• Overview
• Immature Personality
• Seductive Personality
• Psychopathic Personality (Antisocial Personality)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
• Dependent-Inadequate Personality
• Epilogue
• References and Suggested Readings
• Index

O autorze

Gregory Collins, Rev Thomas Culbertson, Harold G Koenig