Deaf Mental Health Care

Neil S. Glickman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136682780
• Subtopic: Education in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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 organizations
• Clinical and interpreting work with deaf persons with widely varying language abilities
• Adaptations of best practices in inpatient, residential, trauma, and substance abuse treatment for deaf persons
• Overcoming administrative barriers to establishing statewide continua of care
• University training of clinical specialists
• The interplay of clinical and forensic responses to deaf people who commit crimes
• An agenda of priorities for Deaf mental health research

Each chapter contains numerous clinical case studies and places a heavy emphasis on providing practical intervention strategies in an interesting, easy to read style. All mental health professionals who work with deaf individuals will find this to be an invaluable resource for creating and maintaining culturally affirmative treatment with this population.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• 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 Programs
• 6 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