Bookby Mansfield Mela.
Summary: "This book provides clinically relevant information for mental health experts, including professionals in the medical, mental, educational, vocational, legal and correctional, child welfare, and others, who encounter individuals with a hidden disability. Professionals require essential training to appropriately support patients who navigate the mental health system because of the consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). Because curricula have only recently begun to incorporate this material, a text providing basic as well as advanced information is necessary. This book is significant because its content is useful for professional training across many mental health disciplines. It covers information missing from curricula about the long-term effects of PAE (fetal alcohol spectrum disorder ["FASD 101"]) and includes clinical information on the mental disorders relevant to FASD. Given the burgeoning research and knowledge in this area, the text also updates, synthesizes, and consolidates current information into one source. Even seasoned mental health professionals well versed in the research data can use this information to become better educated and informed on the intersecting mental health consequences of PAE"-- Provided by publisher
Contents:
History of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Mental Disorders
Epidemiology
Prenatal Exposure to Multiple Substances
Understanding Etiological Mechanisms
Neurocognitive Mechanisms
Clinical Presentation
Mental Disorder Manifestation of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Profile of Associated Mental Disorders
Neuroimaging
Psychological Testing
Laboratory Testing
Diagnostic Nosology
Pharmacological Intervention
Psychological Treatment
Critical Success Factors
Special issues in Children and Adolescents (the Young)
Special Issues in the Elderly
Special Issues in Forensic Mental Health
The Emergency Room
Clinical Relevance of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Mental Health System
Future of the Interface of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Mental Disorder.