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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786089303321

Autore

Glickman Neil S

Titolo

Deaf mental health care

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-81054-6

1-283-94284-4

1-136-68279-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Counseling and Psychotherapy: Investigating Practice from Scientific, Historical, and Cultural Perspectives

Altri autori (Persone)

GlickmanNeil S

Disciplina

362.20872

362.4/2009744

362.42009744

Soggetti

Deaf - Mental health - Massachusetts

Deaf -- Mental health -- Massachusetts

Deaf - Mental health services - Massachusetts

Deaf -- Mental health services -- Massachusetts

Deafness - psychology

Mental Health Services

Persons With Hearing Impairments - psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Deaf Mental Health Care; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; About the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What Is Deaf Mental Health Care?; 1 Lessons Learned from 23 Years of a Deaf Psychiatric Inpatient Unit; 2 Deaf/Hearing Cross-cultural Conflicts and the Creation of Culturally Competent Treatment Programs; 3 Sign Language Dysfluency in Some Deaf Persons: Implications for Interpreters and Clinicians Working in Mental Health Settings; 4 Creating a Culturally Affirmative Continuum of Mental Health Services: The Experiences of Three States

5 Creating Culturally and Clinically Competent Deaf Residential Treatment Programs6 Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery:



Adaptations to Best Practices when Working with Culturally Deaf Persons; 7 Culturally Affirmative Adaptations to Trauma Treatment with Deaf Children in a Residential Setting; 8 Training of Mental Health Professionals: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; 9 Deaf People in the Criminal Justice System: Is a Culturally Affirmative Response Possible or Desirable?; 10 Deaf Mental Health Research: Where We've Been and Where We Hope to Go; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a state of the art account of the clinical specialty of mental health care of deaf people. Drawing upon some of the leading clinicians, teachers, administrators, and researchers in this field from the United States and Great Britain, it addresses critical issues from this specialty such as Deaf/hearing cross cultural dynamics as they impact treatment organizationsClinical and interpreting work with deaf persons with widely varying language abilitiesAdaptations of best practices in inpatient, residential, trauma