1st Edition

Neurobiology and Mental Health Clinical Practice New Directions, New Challenges

Edited By Dennis Miehls, Jeffrey Applegate Copyright 2015
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This book illustrates the current findings of interpersonal neurobiology from leading mental health clinician-scholars that inform knowledge building and clinical practice. Representing the fields of social work, psychology and psychiatry, these authors creatively apply research findings from the ongoing revolution in social and behaviour neuroscience to a diverse array of clinical issues.... Read more

1. Introduction to Neurobiology and Clinical Work

Dennis Miehls and Jeffrey Applegate

2. Why we Need Therapy – and Why it Works: A Neuroscientific Perspective

Louis J. Cozolino and Erin N. Santos

3. Regulation Theory and Affect Regulation Psychotherapy: A Clinical Primer

Judith R. Schore and Allan N. Schore

4. Selected Neurobiological Arousal Issues as Manifested in a Clinical Case Illustration

Arlene Montgomery

5. The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Clinical Intuition

Terry Marks-Tarlow

6. Working Implicitly in Couples Therapy: Improving Right Hemisphere Affect-Regulating Capabilities

Francine Lapides

7. Interface between Psychotropic Medications, Neurobiology, and Mental Illness

Rosemary Farmer

8. The Neurobiology of Substance Use Disorders: Information for Assessment and Clinical Treatment

Susanne Bennett and Patricia Petrash

9. Trauma’s Neurobiological Toll: Implications for Clinical Work with Children

Karen Zilberstein

10. Resonance in the Dissociative Field: Examining the Therapist’s Internal Experience when a Patient Dissociates in Session

Jacqueline Strait

11. Beneath the Surface: An Exploration of Neurobiological Alterations in Therapists Working With Trauma

Brian Rasmussen and Susan Bliss

12. Casting Light on the Shadow: Clinical Implications of Contextualizing Racial Experience Within a Neurobiological Framework

Yvette Esprey

13. Neuroscience Insights that Inform Clinical Supervision

Dennis Miehls

14. Biomania: Benefits, Risks, and Challenges

Jon G. Allen

Biography

Dennis Miehls is a Professor at Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. He is chair of the Human Behaviour Sequence of the School. He has published extensively in the areas of trauma, couple therapy, neurobiology, and supervision. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.

Jeffrey Applegate is Professor Emeritus, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, USA. His scholarly work focuses on the application of psychoanalytic theory to social work research, practice and education.