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Deaf Mental Health Care
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...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Mental Health Care of Deaf People
A Culturally Affirmative Approach
Deaf adults and children, like their hearing counterparts, experience a full range of mental health problems. They develop psychoses, sink into deep depressions, abuse alcohol and drugs, commit sexual offenses, or simply have trouble adjusting to new life situations. But when a deaf client appears...
Published March 31st 2003 by Routledge
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Culturally Affirmative Psychotherapy With Deaf Persons
The impetus for this volume is the growing awareness within the mental health and larger community of a culturally affirmative model for understanding and assisting deaf people. In contrast to the "medical-pathological" model which treats deafness as a disability, the "cultural" model guides us to...
Published August 31st 1996 by Routledge