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PART I Our Professions Come of Age Neuroscience Knowledge and Tools for Biopsychosocial Practice 1. Why should I care about brain science? I'm a "People " person 2. Neuroscience knowledge: How Is It Faring at the Beginning of the Second Decade of the Millennium? 3. Normality, Professional Culture, and Psychiatric Disorders: Diagnosing Jared 4. Breaking through: Is it nature or nurture? Domains of biological influence on psychological functions 5. Why do we know so much more now than a few years ago?.......... 6. What can we make of Jenny's rages? Biology-environment disputesamong mental health social work specialists 7. The biopsychosocial perspective:Theoretical frameworks, unifying themes 8. The biopsychosocial perspective: Genetics, epigenetics, and complex adaptive systems 9. Assessment and intervention planning with individuals and families: Three tools for combining multisystem and evidence-based analysis 10. Complementary roles of quantitative and narrative approaches: How we used them together to learn about parent/professional relationships PART II Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Brain Works 11. Brain Structures: Larger (Visible to the Human Eye) 12. Structures: Microscopic (Neurons, Synapses, and Other Amazing Contributors to Brain Works) 13. The Brain's Natural Chemicals: Precursors, Messengers, and Enzymes 14. Neurotransmission: How the Brain Sends and Receives Messages 15. Neurotransmitters: Synthesis through Release in Four Steps 16. Outcomes: The Fifth Step in Neurotransmission 17. Some Classes of Drugs and Other Substances: Actors in the Brain 18. Using Neuroscience Information to Empower (excerpt from process recording) PART III Hidden Circuits Neural Networks Today, Connectomes on the Horizon 19. Human Neural Systems Working For You Day and Night 20. Pleasures: Your Favorites, My Favorites, and How Brain Ingenuity Puts Them on the Map. 21. Eating: The Pleasures that Keep on Pleasing 22. Eating and Obesity: Has Pleasure Vanquished Homeostasis? 23. Trauma and Stress: Neural Networks 24. Jason: Multiple Traumas, Social Work Interventions PART IV Substance Abuse and Addiction Definitions, Contributing Factors, and Interventions 25.Addiction: Definitions, Risk and Protective Factors 26. Brain Structures and Systems Involved in Substance Abuse and Addiction 27. How Do We Become Addicted? Brain Changes and Psychological Changes 28 Cultures of Therapy and the Recovery Boondoggle 29. Some Street Drugs-How They Can Get You Hooked 30. How Do Psychosocial Interventions Work in the Context of a Changed Brain? 31. Treat Drugs with Drugs? Is That Craziness? 32. Assessing Pat: (A) Food Struggles and Mental Challenges. A Young Woman and Her Family Respond to Co-occurring Conditions PART V Child and Adult Development Recent Research on Critical Developmental Topics 33. Genes, Temperament, and Resilience 34. Affiliation, Bonding, and Attachment 35. Stress and Vulnerability 36. Critical Periods in Child Development 37.Tyrone: ADHD, Genes, Environmental Stressors, and Family Coping 38. Consciousness: An Evolutionary Perspective PART VI Mental Health and Mental Illness Medical Conventions, : Recent Research, from Assessment to Intervention Planning 39. Approaching the Era of the DSM-5: Sea Change in Practice Ideologies? 40. What Is Borderline Personality Disorder? 41. What can today's neuroscience tell us about mental conditions? Borderline personality disorder (BPD) as a case in point 42. Neuroscience with Social Science Can Give Us Insights about Pat 43. Borderline Characteristics:Medications 44. Borderline Characteristics: Non-Pharmacological Interventions 45. Assessing Pat (B), MEBA items 8-13 (continued from Part IV, MEBA items 1-7):Thoughts of death, borderline dimensions, and obsessive-compulsive traits in a person with eating challenges PART VII Multiple Routes to Quality of Life: Recent Research on Supportsfor Living 46. Authenticity in therapeutic alternatives: How can I tell the best natural treatments from snake oil? 47. Traditional, alternative, and integrative medicine, plus None-of-the above: How they can elevate our emotions, cognitions, and behaviors 48. None-of-the-Above: Exercise as a major example1 49. Alternatives to conventional treatments: David's mother draws on new knowledge to find better help for David
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