STEM-H for Mental Health Clinicians

Description:

STEM-H for Mental Health Clinicians introduces a new model that adapts scientific, technological, engineering, and mathematical concepts to treat the health (STEM-H) of patients with medical problems. The book begins with a discussion of genetics and continues through current scientific research underlying each bodily system to inform practitioners and advanced students about development, as well as structure, and function. Signature illnesses and injuries that affect each system are discussed at length, as well as technological advances and biomedical engineering that developed apparatuses and medications to treat those signature conditions. Mathematical concepts that underlie public health models are introduced in each chapter and range from the prevalence and incidence of these medical conditions to social determinants of health, and the relationship of ethnicity, gender, and poverty. Clinical theories and methods are introduced to inform practitioners about treatments of
signature illnesses and injuries experienced by children and adults. The book thoroughly explains the terminology and STEM-H concepts to inform students and mental health clinicians.

Readers who master the material will be prepared to work as medical team members or as independent clinicians with private or community clients who struggle with medical problems. This textbook addresses the well-being of the patient’s family members and introduces solutions to improve the caregivers’ burden. Chapters in STEM-H for Clinicians provide a bench-side to bedside approach to apply basic global scientific data, predominantly from the United States, that inform clinicians’ treatment methods and develop research-informed practice.

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Foreword

As widely understood in academic areas of study, STEM is the commonly recognized abbreviation for four intricately connected fields of academic study: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These fields are frequently associated because they share similarities in both theory and practice. Each field is dependent on sensical conceptual inputs for positive and logical outcomes in all areas of discipline practices.

This text, STEM-H forMental Health Clinicians, is both a relevant and exciting work. It is a long-awaited, clearly written, and significantly informative resource, primarily designed for clinical practitioners in the social sciences, clinical students, and faculty who teach and train students in the social science disciplines of social work, psychology, and counseling. However, the clarity of the content readily serves as an invitation to all who are seeking to enhance their understanding of cellular level and systems functioning and the related health and disease processes that frequently are identified as underlying factors of health and mental health concerns.

The authors include an intricate, detailed, and broad overview of STEMHealth content. Their treatment of STEM and identification of the important relationship of STEM to overall health provide salient connections to the understanding and identification of disease processes and related conditions for social science faculty who teach, train, and supervise students in each discipline—and for students enrolled in graduate programs and required internships. The focus of the authors on STEM and STEM connections to health suggests that primary audiences for this text are (1) graduate students who elect social science majors and train as clinical counselors and psychotherapists for professional roles in the employment marketplace and (2) social science majors previously employed in positions in other areas of their disciplines but who desire to further study and train as clinical practitioners. The health content provided in this text offers both a formal and an informal opportunity to study STEM and health for its relevance to clinical practice and successful outcomes.

Although the disciplines of social work, psychology, and counseling each offer multiple theories of human development and behavior and environmental and/or social determinants of health and mental health that frequently include differential and diagnostic assessments of sociobehavioral challenges, this book very clearly provides a broader scope of requisite clinical and neuroclinical content in its detailed treatment of STEM and health and related disease processes. It serves to fulfill a missing emphasis in clinical curricula in the social sciences. The text is a well-positioned and essential work that clearly highlights the importance of genetics and its major contributions to the identified aspects of the social and environmental determinants of health and mental health!

The authors include basic and requisite neuroscience content, such as a comprehensive treatment of neuroanatomy (e.g., the structure and functioning of the brain and body systems). They identify and describe related disease processes and include technological interventions that address physical health treatments for these disease processes, which ultimately and significantly impact health and mental health. Importantly, this work serves as a necessary bridge between the biological sciences and the social sciences for clinical practitioners. Such explicated health content is important for all counseling disciplines but is especially useful and necessary for social science academic curricula, which may not include a STEM health focus that extends to sociobehavioral and mental health concerns in the social science counseling professions.

The authors also add important clarifying features in the text, such as glossaries, detailed illustrations and illustrative definitions, chapter summary content, and chapter integration so that the chapter material is clearly affiliated. Each chapter builds on and/or relates to the previous chapter. Additionally, individual chapters are rich with references and connect to research-based content and relevant data, including website addresses that lead the reader to additional information and/or original sources of support.

In conclusion, this text is an exciting contribution and a welcome addition to the social sciences literature and disciplines! It is an especially exciting work for the connected social sciences and health-related disciplines. The authors bring together, and highlight in depth, the often unexplored and unexpressed intricate connections between STEM and health and the significance such connections occupy in the everyday work of clinical practitioners in the social sciences. The addition of such extensive discipline content provided by this text is both energizing and timely and deserves a place in social sciences literature, curricula, and the libraries of all social science clinicians!

E. Delores Dungee-Anderson, PhD, LCSW, Certified Trauma Specialist Trainer
Professor
Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work Norfolk State University
Norfolk, Virginia