Current Controversies in Mental Health and Addictions by Lloyd I Sederer

Current Controversies in Mental Health and Addictions by Lloyd I Sederer

Mental health and substance use disorders are ubiquitous conditions that have an enormous impact on individuals and families, and often lead to social and financial burdens, and sometimes catastrophes. Current Controversies in Mental Health and Addictions: An Expert's Anthology is a compilation of book and movie reviews, opinion blogs, and online articles on mental health and addiction. This compelling anthology helps readers understand and apply specific and every day mental health problems and their solutions.

The material is organized into sections that address topics such as substance use, abuse, and addiction; borderline personality disorder; depression and bipolar disorders; suicide; and recovery. The high-interest content includes selections on how people with mental illnesses can have lives of contribution and how to keep them from becoming violent; treatment choices for alcoholism and substance use disorders; mental health law; adverse childhood experiences; wartime and other post-traumatic stress disorders; biomarkers for depression; and more.

Current Controversies in Mental Health and Addictions provides a wealth of valuable information and insight for mental health professionals and lay readers alike. Applicable to numerous disciplines and students at various points in their pre-professional education, the book is particularly well-suited to courses in psychology, social work, counseling, nursing, addiction, and pre-medicine.

Lloyd I. Sederer completed medical school at the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center. He has served as medical director of McLean Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and director of the Division of Clinical Services for the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Sederer is currently Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Office of Mental Health, medical editor for mental health at The Huffington Post, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Sederer has published books for both professional and lay audiences, and his writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and Psychology Today among many other publications.

Sederer, Lloyd: - Lloyd Sederer, MD, is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Public Health. In 2013, Dr. Sederer was given the Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents by the American Psychiatric Association, which in 2009 had recognized him as the Psychiatric Administrator of the Year. He has been awarded a Scholar-in-Residence grant by the Rockefeller Foundation and an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). In 2019, he received the Doctor of the Year award from The National Council on Behavioral Healthcare (representing over 3,000 mental health, addiction, and social service organizations serving over 10 million patients). He has published seven books for professional audiences and, with this book, six for lay audiences, as well as 500 articles in medical journals, non-medical publications, and book, film, TV, and theatre reviews. His writings have appeared in The New York Times / International Herald Tribune, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Daily News, The Washington Post, The Boston Business Journal, Commonweal Magazine, and Psychology Today, among other publications. He was, for 7 years, the medical editor for Mental Health for the HuffPost, where over 250 of his posts and videos appeared. He also wrote a regular opinion column on mental health and the addictions for US News & World Report. He has taught medical writing for the lay public at Columbia Medical School for 18 sequential semesters.

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ISBN 13	9781516556939
ISBN 10	1516556933
Title	Current Controversies in Mental Health and Addictions
Author	Lloyd I Sederer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cognella Academic Publishing
Year published	2017-01-12
Number of pages	328
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