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Challenges and Opportunities in Culturally Affirmative Mental Health Care of Deaf Persons
To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges
This book provides a model for adapting best practices in cognitive-behavioral therapy to consumers whose language and cognitive deficits make it difficult for them to benefit from traditional talk oriented psychotherapy. The book focuses primarily upon the mental health care of those deaf clients,...
Published October 14th 2008 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