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Science and Social Work

A Critical Appraisal

By: Stuart A. Kirk,William James Reid

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Science and Social Work

A Critical Appraisal

By: Stuart A. Kirk,William James Reid

Historically, there have been two main approaches to the proper role and function of science in social work. This work presents a balanced appraisal, demonstrating how the fruits of scientific research can aid clinical practice.

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Columbia University Press

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0231118252

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Mad Science

Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

By: Stuart A. Kirk

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Mad Science

Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

By: Stuart A. Kirk

*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book AwardMad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome.When it comes to understanding and treating mental illness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book's detailed analysis of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. They are not just bad science, but mad science.This book provides an engaging and readable scientific and social critique of current mental health practices. The authors are scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs. This paperback edition makes Mad Science accessible to all specialists in the field as well as to the informed public.

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Routledge

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1351507931

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The Selling of DSM

The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

By: Stuart A. Kirk

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The Selling of DSM

The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

By: Stuart A. Kirk

When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition—univer-sally known as DSM-III—embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric illness. Kirk and Kutchins challenge the general understanding about the research data and the pro-cess that led to the peer acceptance of DSM-III. Their original and controversial reconstruction of that moment concen-trates on how a small group of researchers interpreted their findings about a specific problem—psychiatric reliability—to promote their beliefs about mental illness and to challenge the then-dominant Freudian paradigm.

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Routledge

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1351474340

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Satan's Conspiracy

Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-century Scotland

By: P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

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Satan's Conspiracy

Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-century Scotland

By: P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

Synthesizing the evidence for magic and witchcraft in 16th-century Scotland, this book profiles unpublished manuscripts, 19th- and early-20th-century transcriptions, and passing remarks in the histories of shires and boroughs. Preliminary suggestions are made about how these sources can be interpreted, so that nature scholars of Scottish witchcraft in particular will be able to more easily construct their theories with the analyses provided.

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Dundurn

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1862321361

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Mental Disorders in the Social Environment

Critical Perspectives

By: Stuart A. Kirk

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Mental Disorders in the Social Environment

Critical Perspectives

By: Stuart A. Kirk

Social workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent biomedical trends in psychiatry appear to minimize the importance of their traditional concerns, which focus on the social environment that accompanies mental disorders and their treatment. In twenty-four chapters written by distinguished scholars this book not only calls attention to this emerging problem and challenges conventional mental health beliefs and practices, but also raises provocative questions: Has social work become too closely associated with psychiatry and too quick to adopt a medical approach? Has the focus on the therapeutic relationship negated social work's commitment to social reform? Is the social worker marginalized by the emphasis in mental health on biochemistry and psychopharmacology? This book calls on social workers and other health care professionals to be more skeptical about diagnosis, community treatment, evidence-based practice, psychotherapy, medications, and managed care.

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Columbia University Press

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0231128703

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9780231128704

Making Us Crazy

By: Herb Kutchins,Stuart Kirk

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Making Us Crazy

By: Herb Kutchins,Stuart Kirk

A persuasive and passionate plea from two mental health professionals to ease use of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders under their belief that it is leading to an over-diagnosed society. For many health professionals, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is an indispensable resource. As the standard reference book for psychiatrists and psychotherapist everywhere, the DSM has had an inestimable influence on the way medical professionals diagnosis mental disorders in their patients. But with a push to label clients with pathological disorders in order to get reimbursed by insurance companies, the purpose of the DSM is no longer serving as a reference book. Instead, it is acting as a list of things that can qualify a patient’s diagnosis. In Making Us Crazy, Stuart Kirk and Herb Kutchins evaluate how the DSM has become the influence behind diagnoses that assassinate character and slander the opposition, often for political or monetary gain. By examining how the reference book serves as a source to label every phobia and quirk that arises in a patient, Kirk and Kutchins question the overuse of the DSM by today’s mental health professionals.

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324

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Simon and Schuster

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0743261208

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9780743261203

Christian Writers' Market Guide 2001

The Reference Tool for the Christian Writer

By: Sally E. Stuart

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Christian Writers' Market Guide 2001

The Reference Tool for the Christian Writer

By: Sally E. Stuart

Christian Writers' Market Guide 2001" is not only the most up-to-date marketing resource for Christian writers, it is the only guide written exclusively for this specialized market. Including more than 1,200 periodicals, books, and specialty markets, this classic reference book provides information on how to contract publishers, enter writing contests, and research Web sites.

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Shaw

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0877881898

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9780877881896

Battle of Killiecrankie, 1689

The Last Act of the Killing Times

By: Stuart Reid

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Battle of Killiecrankie, 1689

The Last Act of the Killing Times

By: Stuart Reid

The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national tragedy, the first battle on the braes of Killiecrankie was unquestionably the most dramatic.It was very much a Scottish battle. The later Jacobite risings would be launched against kings and governments in London. Killiecrankie, on the other hand, pitted Scot against Scot in the last bloody act of the bitter religious struggle known as The Killing Times.Killiecrankie saw the first, and most successful, Highland Charge, as the clansmen broke the line of the Governments redcoats in the twinkling of an eye, and though outnumbered the Jacobites achieved a stunning victory. The Highlanders, however, suffered debilitating losses of almost one third of their strength, and their leader, John Graham the Viscount of Dundee, was killed.The Jacobites continued their advance until stopped by Government forces at the Battle of Dunkeld a little more than three weeks later. Though the Jacobites had failed, the struggle of the Highland clans to return the Catholic James, and his successors, to the throne of Scotland and England would continue for the next two generations.

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Casemate Publishers

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1526709961

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Christian Writers' Market Guide 2000

By: Sally E. Stuart

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Christian Writers' Market Guide 2000

By: Sally E. Stuart

This ultimate reference tool for Christian writers includes over 1,100 markets for the printed word. Completely revised for 2000, this writer's classic reference book includes: -- 683 periodicals -- 329 book publishers -- 90 literary agents -- Over 250 poetry markets -- 117 greeting card and specialty markets.The guide provides hundreds of e-mail addresses, websites and on-line markets, as well as scriptwriting, song writing, poetry, web page resources, and information on photography markets and writing contests, conferences, and groups.

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Shaw Books

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087788188X

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Christian Writers' Market Guide 2005

The Reference Tool for the Christian Writer

By: Sally Stuart

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Christian Writers' Market Guide 2005

The Reference Tool for the Christian Writer

By: Sally Stuart

Now updated for 2009 comes one of the most comprehensive marketing resources for Christian writers, with information on agents, editors, publisher guidelines, specialty markets, and more.

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0877882002

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Making Us Crazy

By: Herb Kutchins,Stuart Kirk

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Making Us Crazy

By: Herb Kutchins,Stuart Kirk

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Simon and Schuster

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Clinical Evidence

By: Stuart Barton

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Clinical Evidence

By: Stuart Barton

Clinical Evidence is a six-monthly updated compendium of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions. It is published twice a year in print and online formats, and draws together user-friendly summaries of the best available evidence on prevention and treatment. Features include: choice of topics and questions guided by clinicians and patients; summaries written by practising clinicians; easy-to-follow numerical information; guidance on applying evidence in practice; and coverage of medical, surgical, nursing and complementary interventions.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0727915096

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The British Witch

The Biography

By: P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

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The British Witch

The Biography

By: P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

A monumental history of a dangerous profession, exploring witches throughout the British Isles: their identity, magic and the people who employed and suppressed them

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445622181

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The Selling of DSM

The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

By: Stuart A. Kirk,Herb Kutchins

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The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

By: Stuart A. Kirk,Herb Kutchins

When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition--universally known as DSM-III--embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric illness. Kirk and Kutchins challenge the general understanding about the research data and the process that led to the peer acceptance of DSM-III. Their original and controversial reconstruction of that moment concentrates on how a small group of researchers interpreted their findings about a specific problem--psychiatric reliability--to promote their beliefs about mental illness and to challenge the then-dominant Freudian paradigm.

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Mental Disorders in the Social Environment

Critical Perspectives

By: Stuart A. Kirk

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Critical Perspectives

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Mad Science

Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

By: Stuart A. Kirk,Tomi Gomory,David Cohen

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Mad Science

Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

By: Stuart A. Kirk,Tomi Gomory,David Cohen

*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book Award Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome. When it comes to understanding and treating mental illness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book’s detailed analysis of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. They are not just bad science, but mad science. This book provides an engaging and readable scientific and social critique of current mental health practices. The authors are scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs. This paperback edition makes Mad Science accessible to all specialists in the field as well as to the informed public.

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Science and Social Work

Science and Social Work

Mad Science

Mad Science

The Selling of DSM

The Selling of DSM

Satan's Conspiracy

Satan's Conspiracy

Mental Disorders in the Social Environment

Mental Disorders in the Social Environment

Making Us Crazy

Making Us Crazy

Christian Writers' Market Guide 2001

Christian Writers' Market Guide 2001

Battle of Killiecrankie, 1689

Battle of Killiecrankie, 1689

Christian Writers' Market Guide 2000

Christian Writers' Market Guide 2000

Christian Writers' Market Guide 2005

Christian Writers' Market Guide 2005

Making Us Crazy

Making Us Crazy

Clinical Evidence

Clinical Evidence

The British Witch

The British Witch

The Selling of DSM

The Selling of DSM

Mental Disorders in the Social Environment

Mental Disorders in the Social Environment

Mad Science

Mad Science

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