Mental Health Care of Deaf People: A Culturally Affirmative Approach | 
 enlarge | Creators: Neil S. Glickman, Sanjay Gulati
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 976790
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0805844694
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.20872
EAN: 9780805844696
ASIN: 0805844694
Publication Date: April 1, 2003
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Product Description
Deaf adults and children, like their hearing counterparts, experience a full range of mental health problems. They develop psychoses, sink into deep depressions, abuse alcohol and drugs, commit sexual offenses, or simply have trouble adjusting to new life situations. But when a deaf client appears on the doorstep of an ordinary hospital, residential facility, clinic, or office, panic often ensues.
Mental Health Care of Deaf People: A Culturally Affirmative Approach, offers much-needed help to clinical and counseling psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health professionals--and to their program administrators. The editors, a psychologist and a psychiatrist, and the authors, leading authorities with a variety of expertises, systematically review the special needs of deaf patients, particularly those who regard themselves as "culturally Deaf," and provide professionals with the tools they need to meet those needs.
Among these tools is an extensive "library" of pictorial questionnaires and information sheets developed by one of the very few psychiatric units in the country devoted to the deaf. These handouts greatly simplify the processes involved in the diagnosis and treatment of people who in many cases are not good readers--for example, explaining medication and inquiring about side-effects. The handouts are reproduced on a CD included in each copy of the book, to enable purchasers to print out and use copies in their work.
This comprehensive clinical guide and its accompanying CD constitute vital resources for all those who seek to provide sensitive, effective mental health care to deaf people.
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Mental Health Care of Deaf People May 31, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Drs. Neil Glickman and Sanjay Gulati have written and edited a state of the art book on culturally affirmative mental health treatment with deaf people,... from psychiatric care to psychological evalautions, sensory strategies, substance abuse treatment, residential treatment with deaf children, to the cochlear implant. This is required reading for my Gallaudet U. grad students in counseling with deaf people.
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