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Behavioral Neuroscience for the Human Services (eBook, PDF)

Foundations in Emotion, Mental Health, Addiction, and Alternative Therapies

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Produktbeschreibung

Are biology and psychology inseparable? For many decades, this notion was not seriously entertained by purveyors of psychological wisdom. Now, fast-growing new technologies for studying the brain have discredited the dichotomous biology-psychology divide, demonstrating that the foundations of psychology are based in neurobiological structures and functions, both inborn (temperament) and sometimes modified through interacting with environments. This book for social workers illustrates how social, psychological, and biological factors interact to shape a client's unique experience. While the field-and its longstanding texts-has for decades recognized the psychosocial elements that can help or hinder health and well being, it has been slow to integrate biological advances into its knowledge base. "Synapse and System" revolutionizes the way students learn to understand, assess, and treat their clients. Emphasizing the deep interconnectedness of genes and the physical and social context in which disorders take shape, this book introduces the fundamentals of neurochemistry and the biological roots of addiction, mental illness, trauma, attachment, and violence. In addition, it provides neuroscience fundamentals, incorporates new advances in neuroscience critical for practice, such as analysis and illustration of two examples of complex neural circuits, for pleasure and for trauma, and introduces many rich multidisciplinary research findings across practice areas. The result is a masterful treatment of social work's hallmark person-in-environment perspective that gives students a deep appreciation for the complex interactions among biological and social forces that can shape the development of, and response to, mental illness and social problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199794225
• Artikelnr.: 40761826

Autorenporträt

Harriette C. Johnson, PhD, is Professor of Casework and Chair of the Human Behavior in the Social Environment sequence at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.

Inhaltsangabe

* PART I
* Our Professions Come of Age
* Neuroscience Knowledge and Tools for Biopsychosocial Practice
* 1. Why should I care about brain science? I'm a "People " person
* 2. Neuroscience knowledge: How Is It Faring at the Beginning of the
Second Decade of the Millennium?
* 3. Normality, Professional Culture, and Psychiatric Disorders:
Diagnosing Jared
* 4. Breaking through: Is it nature or nurture? Domains of biological
influence on psychological functions
* 5. Why do we know so much more now than a few years ago?..........
* 6. What can we make of Jenny's rages? Biology-environment
disputesamong mental health social work specialists
* 7. The biopsychosocial perspective:Theoretical frameworks, unifying
themes
* 8. The biopsychosocial perspective: Genetics, epigenetics, and
complex adaptive systems
* 9. Assessment and intervention planning with individuals and
families: Three tools for combining multisystem and evidence-based
analysis
* 10. Complementary roles of quantitative and narrative approaches: How
we used them together to learn about parent/professional
relationships
* PART II
* Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Brain Works
* 11. Brain Structures: Larger (Visible to the Human Eye)
* 12. Structures: Microscopic (Neurons, Synapses, and Other Amazing
Contributors to Brain Works)
* 13. The Brain's Natural Chemicals: Precursors, Messengers, and
Enzymes
* 14. Neurotransmission: How the Brain Sends and Receives Messages
* 15. Neurotransmitters: Synthesis through Release in Four Steps
* 16. Outcomes: The Fifth Step in Neurotransmission
* 17. Some Classes of Drugs and Other Substances: Actors in the Brain
* 18. Using Neuroscience Information to Empower (excerpt from process
recording)
* PART III
* Hidden Circuits
* Neural Networks Today, Connectomes on the Horizon
* 19. Human Neural Systems Working For You Day and Night
* 20. Pleasures: Your Favorites, My Favorites, and How Brain Ingenuity
Puts Them on the Map.
* 21. Eating: The Pleasures that Keep on Pleasing
* 22. Eating and Obesity: Has Pleasure Vanquished Homeostasis?
* 23. Trauma and Stress: Neural Networks
* 24. Jason: Multiple Traumas, Social Work Interventions
* PART IV
* Substance Abuse and Addiction
* Definitions, Contributing Factors, and Interventions
* 25.Addiction: Definitions, Risk and Protective Factors
* 26. Brain Structures and Systems Involved in Substance Abuse and
Addiction
* 27. How Do We Become Addicted? Brain Changes and Psychological
Changes
* 28 Cultures of Therapy and the Recovery Boondoggle
* 29. Some Street Drugs-How They Can Get You Hooked
* 30. How Do Psychosocial Interventions Work in the Context of a
Changed Brain?
* 31. Treat Drugs with Drugs? Is That Craziness?
* 32. Assessing Pat: (A) Food Struggles and Mental Challenges. A Young
Woman and Her Family Respond to Co-occurring Conditions
* PART V
* Child and Adult Development
* Recent Research on Critical Developmental Topics
* 33. Genes, Temperament, and Resilience
* 34. Affiliation, Bonding, and Attachment
* 35. Stress and Vulnerability
* 36. Critical Periods in Child Development
* 37.Tyrone: ADHD, Genes, Environmental Stressors, and Family Coping
* 38. Consciousness: An Evolutionary Perspective
* PART VI
* Mental Health and Mental Illness
* Medical Conventions, : Recent Research, from Assessment to
Intervention Planning
* 39. Approaching the Era of the DSM-5: Sea Change in Practice
Ideologies?
* 40. What Is Borderline Personality Disorder?
* 41. What can today's neuroscience tell us about mental conditions?
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) as a case in point
* 42. Neuroscience with Social Science Can Give Us Insights about Pat
* 43. Borderline Characteristics:Medications
* 44. Borderline Characteristics: Non-Pharmacological Interventions
* 45. Assessing Pat (B), MEBA items 8-13 (continued from Part IV, MEBA
items 1-7):Thoughts of death, borderline dimensions, and
obsessive-compulsive traits in a person with eating challenges
* PART VII
* Multiple Routes to Quality of Life:
* Recent Research on Supportsfor Living
* 46. Authenticity in therapeutic alternatives: How can I tell the best
natural treatments from snake oil?
* 47. Traditional, alternative, and integrative medicine, plus
None-of-the above: How they can elevate our emotions, cognitions, and
behaviors
* 48. None-of-the-Above: Exercise as a major example1
* 49. Alternatives to conventional treatments: David's mother draws on
new knowledge to find better help for David