Social Work: Health & Mental Health

Find entries on topics such as practice and interventions, social environments, social conditions and challenges, and social policy and history. The encyclopedia is constantly updated so you have the most current information in the field.

Find empirically-validated treatments and accumulated clinical wisdom where research is lacking. Content is organized according to DSM-5 categories.

Find comprehensive overviews of the many genetic, neurological, social, and psychological factors that affect mental health, also describing the impact of mental health on the individual and society, and illustrating the factors that aid positive mental health.

This handbook highlights present-day information and evidence-based knowledge in the field of children's behavioral health to enable practitioners, families, and others to choose and implement one of many intervention approaches provided.