title: Clinical Social Work Practice in Behavioral Mental Health: Toward Evidence-Based Practice (3rd Edition)
author:  Roberta G. Sands 
description: <B>Roberta G. Sands</B> is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy &amp; Practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she teaches MSW and doctoral level students.&nbsp; Her primary teaching areas are clinical social work practice, qualitative research, and practice theory.&nbsp; She began her career as a clinical social worker and practiced in community mental health, health, and child welfare settings.&nbsp; Her research has been on mental health and the family, with special attention given to intergenerational family relations, gender, culture, and religious change. <P> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">&nbsp;</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">She is the author of <I>Clinical Social Work Practice in Community Mental Health </I>(1991) and <I>Clinical Social Work Practice in Behavioral Mental Health: A Postmodern Approach to Practice</I> (2<SUP>nd</SUP> edition, 2001; Chinese edition, 2003), and co-author of <I>Interprofessional and Family Discourses: Voices, Knowledge, and Practice</I> (co-authored with Marleen McClelland, 2002).&nbsp; She has published widely in social work and related social science journals, and has also written book reviews, encyclopedia articles, and book chapters.&nbsp; </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">&nbsp;</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left">&nbsp;</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left text-align="left"> <B>Zvi &nbsp;D. Gellis</B> is an associate professor and Hartford Geriatrics Social Work Faculty Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy &amp; Practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he directs the Center for Mental Health and Aging. &nbsp;Dr. Gellis is a certified trainer in evidence-based Problem Solving Therapy, a cognitive behavioral intervention and he has trained numerous services providers (MSWs, nurses, case managers, community services workers, first responders) over the years in delivery of PST to medically-disabled older adults. Dr. Gellis is a mental health services researcher with key expertise in psychotherapy trials for mental health disorders in older adults. Dr. Gellis&rsquo; NIMH-funded research has tested the efficacy of PST for late life depression in home healthcare patients with various chronic medical conditions including cardiovascular disease. Dr. Gellis and co-author Dr. McCracken published a series of state-of-the art mental health curriculum modules that are used in schools of social work across the nation.</P>
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  Evidence-based Policy 
  and Practice in Mental 
  Health Social Work
  
   
  Other titles in this series
  The Approved Social Worker’s Guide to Mental Health Law
  ISBN 978 1 84445 062 6
  Critical Thinking for Social Work 2nd ed.
  ISBN 978 1 84445 157 9
  Law and the Social Work Practitioner
  ISBN 978 1 84445 059 7
  Vulnerable Adults and Community Care 
  ISBN 978 1 84445 061 9
  The Social Worker’s Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005
  ISBN 978 1 84445 129 6
  The Approved Social Worker’s Guide to Psychiatry and 
  Medication
  ISBN 978 1 84445 089 3
  Practising Quality Assurance in Social Care
  ISBN 978 1 84445 084 8
  Managing with Plans and Budgets in Health and Social Care
  ISBN 978 1 84445 134 0
  Social Work Practice with Older Lesbians and Gay Men
  ISBN 978 1 84445 182 1
  The Integration of Mental Health Social Work and the NHS
  ISBN 978 1 84445 150 0
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