Neuroscience for psychologists and other mental health professionals : promoting well-being and treating mental illness / Jill Littrell.

Includes bibliographies and index.

This book presents the latest neuroscience and physiological explanations behind the major diagnostic categories of mental illness-including schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and addiction-and explains the physiological bases that underlie traditional pharmaceutical treatment interventions. Crucially, it integrates current information about brain function with new research on immunology, offering a research-based rationale for viewing the mind and the body as an integrated system. The new information on the physiological bases for behavior explains how lifestyle interventions related to die.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Share Neuroscience for Psychologists and Other Mental Health Professionals: Promoting Well-Being and Treating Mental Illness; Chapter 1: Ways of Thinking About Behavioral Syndromes; The Current Paradigm and How We Got There; History of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of the American Psychiatric Association; Major Depression and Anxiety Used to Be Neurosis; The DSM-IV Continues the Tradition of Medicalizing More of Us; Controversy over the DSM-5; The Limitations of Current Diagnostic Categories; Abandonment of the DSM-5.

Extensive Nature of the Mind-Body ConnectionAre Diagnoses Needed?; What Should Be the Criteria for Disorder?; Has Labeling Ordinary Behavior as Mental Illness Resulted in Better Outcomes?; The Approach in This Book; Chapter 2: Physiology; Section 1: Genes and Epigenetics; The Two-Step Process of Making a Protein; How the Cell Decides Whether to Make a Protein; Epigenetics; Telomeres; Section 2: Neurons and Neurotransmitters; The Life Cycle of a Neurotransmitter; How Are the Functions of Neurotransmitters Investigated?; Specific Neurotransmitters; Section 3: The Immune System.

Two Major Divisions: Innate and Adaptive ImmunityThe Glial Cells; Section 4: Circuits; Appetitive Signaling; Creating Learned Helplessness; Regulation of Impulses, Motor Activity, and Emotions; Putting It All Together: BAS and BIS; Section 5: Emotions; Emotions in General; Autonomic Nervous System; Hormonal Activity; Specific Emotions; Section 6: the Human Brain Is Social; Exercises to Rehearse the Vocabulary Used in Subsequent Chapters; Chapter 3: Psychopharmacology; Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics; Ways to Ingest Drugs; Ways in Which Drugs Are Eliminated from the Body; Drug Dependence.

General ConceptsMajor Classes of Psychotropic Drugs; Stimulants; Antipsychotics; Antidepressants; Sedative-Hypnotic Agents; Mood Stabilizers; Major Classes of Drugs of Abuse; Marijuana; Opioids; Nicotine; Alcohol; Marketing of Drugs in the United States; Concerns About Threats to Health; Concerns Over Cost; Where Does the Pharmaceutical Industry Spend Its Money?; Mechanisms for Controlling Medical Practice; Psychiatric Medications; The Role of Behavioral Health Clinicians With Regard to Pharmaceuticals; Obligations in Assuming Responsibilities for Monitoring Side Effects.

Clinicians Functioning IndependentlyInformed-Consent Duties of Clinicians in Clear Mental Health Professional Roles; What Can Nonmedical Clinicians Say About Medications?; Websites for Information Regarding Drugs; Chapter 4: Depression; The Syndrome of Depressive Behaviors; Prevalence Over Time and Cultures; Findings in Those With Major Depression; Brain Imaging and EEG Findings; Hormonal Findings; Thinking Styles; Emotional Control or Regulation; Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor; Theories; Learned Helplessness; Inflammation; Heritability; Drug Treatment; Efficacy; Withdrawal; Side Effects.

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form