Mental Disorders in the Social Environment: Critical Perspectives Book

1	Introduction : critical perspectives	1
2	Balancing act : assessing strengths in mental health practice	23
3	The limits of diagnostic criteria : the role of social context in clinicians' judgments of mental disorder	45
4	Mapping practice : assessment, context, and social justice	62
5	Disorders versus problems of living in DSM : rethinking social work's relationship to psychiatry	83
6	The probabilistic nature of diagnosis : rolling the dice in social work practice	96
7	Assessing the scientific status of "schizophrenia"	120
8	"To stem the tide of degeneracy" : the eugenic impulse in social work	139
9	Assertive community treatment (ACT) : the case against the "best tested" evidence-based community treatment for severe mental illness	165
10	Empowerment : the foundation for social work practice in mental health	190
11	Self-help mental health agencies	201
12	Power, gender, and the self : reflections on improving mental health for males and females	214
13	Evidence-based practice : breakthrough or buzzword?	231
14	Critical thinking, evidence-based practice, and mental health	247
15	Mental health practice guidelines : panacea or pipe dream?	270
16	Putting Humpty together again : treatment of mental disorder and pursuit of justice as parts of social work's mission	293
17	The problem of psychotherapy in social work	310
18	The misfortunes of behavioral social work : misprized, misread, and misconstrued	330
19	Clinical psychopharmacology trials : "gold standard" or fool's gold?	347
20	Treatment of newly diagnosed psychosis without antipsychotic drugs : the Soteria Project	368
21	Psychosocial side effects of drug treatment of youth	385
22	Social work, mental health, and mental disorders : the ethical dimensions	411
23	Managed care and mental health	430
24	Involuntary medication of the mentally ill : continuing controversy, changing scene	443