This essay focuses on assessment and treatment of mania/bi-polarity.This essay will serve as a reflection on An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison. It will provide you with the opportunity to utilize critical thinking skills to integrate theory and practice with a reflective component.
Overview
This essay will serve as a reflection on An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison. It will provide you with the opportunity to utilize critical thinking skills to integrate theory and practice with a reflective component.
The paper should be six to eight pages in length (not including the title page or the reference page), typed, double-spaced with APA format of citations where appropriate.
Instructions
Please respond to the following reflection questions:
2. Secondly, what is your impression of the changes in the assessment and treatment of mania? What are two differences you noticed between her experience and current practice?
3.Further, what might be your reaction to the client if she had been referred to you during one of her manic periods? What are the characteristics about her and about you that might create barriers or might facilitate relationship?
4.Further, what skills do you think would be most helpful to you in responding to a client like Ms. Redfield Jamison?
5. The author writes about how function in her job responsibilities during the times in which she is most ill.?
6. What did you learn from reading this book? What insights about the disorder, about the treatment of the disorder, and about social work practice?