Mental Illness, Delinquency, Addictions, and Neglect

• Author(s): Elam W. Nunnally, Catherine Chilman, Fred Cox,
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Pages: 266
• ISBN_10: 0803927053
  ISBN_13: 9780803927056
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / Psychopathology / General , Psychology / Psychopathology / Addiction , Social Science / Criminology ,

Description:... This volume examines various disorders that can afflict families: schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, drug abuse, alcoholism and child neglect. Characteristics of families with schizophrenic members are probed, and both the `planned change' therapeutic approach and brief therapy for treating families with a member diagnosed as mentally ill are presented. Also considered are guidelines for conducting treatment with families of alcoholics and drug abusers from a structural strategic orientation.