Psychopathology: A Competency-Based Assessment Model for Social Workers

by Susan W. Gray, Marilyn R. Zide

Written by social workers, A COMPETENCY-BASED ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR SOCIAL WORKERS, views mental disorders through the strengths-perspective. It is unique in its ability to summarize the current state of knowledge about mental disorders and applies a competency-based assessment model for understanding psychopathology. Complete with detailed and realistic vignettes that are unavailable in other texts for the course, A COMPETENCY-BASED ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR SOCIAL WORKERS presents strategies for building on clients' strengths and resilience and offers insights to social workers regarding their role in working with the mentally ill.

Genres: Social Work

430 pages, Paperback

First published November 4, 2000

Reviews

[Jose]

Pretty clear, nice, easy writing... but doesn't offer hardly anything re: cultural diversity...comes with dvd that is cool, and website had lots of teaching ideas and info