Career Counseling Models for Diverse Populations or Users and Abusers of Psychiatry

Career Counseling Models for Diverse Populations: Hands-On Applications for

Author: Nadene Peterson

This casebook is an excellent resource for counselors working with clients from diverse populations who have career concerns. It contains practical, up-to-date material which counselors will find useful in working with selected clients.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION.
1. Experiential Model for Career Guidance in Early Childhood Education, Marjorie T. Kyle, Melanie Hennis.
2. FOCUS: Finding Out the Child"s Underlying Self: A Career Awareness Model for Children, Tammy L. Smith.
3. Multicultural Career Exploration With Adolescent Females, Marie Pascoe Craig, Mary Contreras, Nadene Peterson.
4. At-Risk Students: Working to RAISE Students" Expectations and Motivations Using Career Goal Setting, Cheryl Baker.
5. High School Students in Transition: Meaningful Vocational Counseling for the 21st Century, Belinda McCharen.
6. Students With Severe Disabilities: Functional Vocational Assessment, Barry Dewlen, Harriette Spires.
7. Low-Income Populations in Community College: Occupational Development, Mary Contreras.
8. The Student-Athlete Life-Career Portfolio: The Personal Organization of Change, H. Ray Wooten, Jr.
9. The Résumé as a Career Development Resource, Howard Meyers.
10. DISCOVER-Its Uses With College Students, Johnnie Walker-Staggs.
11. A Group Approach to Career Decision Making, K. Richard Pyle.
12. The Genogram Technique: A Therapeutic Tool for the Career Counselor, Nell Penick.
13. Spirituality and Career Development: Using the Enneagram, Margaret Pinder.
14. Single-Parent Families: Issues in The World of Work, Bonnie L. Ferguson.
15. Prisons: A Vocational Counseling Model, Dom Garrison, Greg Dewarld, Donna Metcalf.
16. Impaired Workers: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Work Hardening, Felipe Martinez.
17. Chronic Mental Illness and Work: An Integrated Vocational Life-Planning Model,Marjorie T. Kyle, Scott Persinger.
18. Battered Women: A Vocational Counseling Model, Nadene Peterson, Georgia Priour.
19. Military Personnel: A Vocational Counseling Model for Those Leaving Active Duty, Susan Knobloch Prengel.
20. Career Development in Business and Industry, Wyn Baumgardner.
21. Unemployment Issues and Outplacement Interventions, Carla Campbell.
22. There is Life After Work: Re-Creating Oneself in the Later Years, Bonnie Genevay.

Book review: American Legend or James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights

Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice

Author: Lucy Johnston

Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a radically different, critical account of the day-to-day practice of psychiatry. Using real-life examples and her own experience as a clinical psychologist, Lucy Johnstone argues that the traditional way of treating mental illness can often exacerbate people's original difficulties leaving them powerless, disabled and distressed.
In this completely revised and updated second edition, she draws on a range of evidence to present a very different understanding of psychiatric breakdown than that found in standard medical textbooks.
Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a challenging but ultimately inspiring read for all who are involved in mental health - whether as professionals, students, service users, relatives or interested lay people.

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Reviewer: Diana Marta, BSN, RN (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: As mental healthcare was ballyhooed by politicians in this past election year, this second edition text (first edition 1989) argues that the real crisis in the practice of psychiatry is its failure to go beyond the medical model in the treatment of patients.
Purpose: The book contends that in the rush to get people in and out of the hospital (aka managed care), too often the backgrounds and contributing factors to mental illness are overlooked in the interest of social control. From treating symptoms and ignoring cause to relinquishing control to the pharmaceutical industry, Lucy Johnstone presents a thorough and credible argument against medicalization in the age-old controversy between psychology and psychiatry.
Audience: Anyone who purports to be an advocate of the mentally ill, including practitioners, students, researchers, family members, and patients, should read this book. It also would be a good addition to any legislator's or hospital administrator's reading list before allocating funds for mental health treatment. The author is both a lecturer and therapist and draws on many of her own clinical experiences to illustrate how "the system" fails to address the needs of most patients.
Features: The use of case studies enlivens the text and helps to illustrate her theories. The author does a good job of examining many aspects of the practice:from the power wielded by pharmaceutical companies to failures in training practitioners to philosophical biases that don't always serve the patient population. In this second edition, she points out that although there have been many physical advancements since her first book, it is clear to her that the "more things change, the more they stay the same."
Assessment: This book makes an important contribution to the study of psychiatric practice by attempting to keep practitioners honest about who they are really serving and reminding us all that the patient, not the system, should always be the primary focus.

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Using real-life examples and her own experience as a practitioner, Johnstone (clinical psychology and counselling, U. of the West of England, Bristol) argues that the traditional way of treating mental breakdown can often exacerbate people's original difficulties, leaving them powerless, disabled, and even more distressed. She has substantially revised and updated the 1989 first edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody