Product Description: Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services weaves together different strands of mental health work undertaken in one inner-city Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service by professionals working in a range of ways. In particular, it provides examples of how an urban CAMH service has been responsive to, and influenced by, local circumstances, resources and knowledge...read more

Product Description: Exploring the process of recovery from personality disorder, and how this can be achieved, this research-based but highly readable book describes successful community-based ways to support people after diagnosis and the wider implications for mental ill health...read more

Product Description: Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention...read more

This new edition of Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society is an authoritative, comprehensive guide on issues around race, culture and mental health service provision. It has been updated to reflect the changes in the UK over the last ten years and features entirely new chapters by over twenty authors, expanding the range of topics by including issues of particular concern for women, family therapy, and mental health of refugees and asylum seekers. Divided into four sections the book covers: issues around mental health service provision for black and minority ethnic (BME) communities including refugees and asylum seekers critical accounts of how these issues may be confronted, with examples of projects that attempt to do just that programs and innovative services that appear to meet some of the needs of BME communities a critical but constructive account of lessons to be drawn from earlier sections and discussion of the way ahead. With chapters on training, service user involvement, policy development and service provision Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society will appeal to academics, professionals, trainers and managers, as well as providing up-to-date information for a general readership.

Product Description: "How useful is this book? I have referred to it often, and found myself quoting information and models of care from it. I lent it to a colleague to prepare a presentation on 'challenging behaviour' to our local carers' group and he thought it was an excellent resource...read more

Product Description: A thought-provoking handbook for practitioners, students and trainers in the mental health field. Addresses controversial issues and offers revealing insights and intelligent suggestions for all those involved with mental health.

A presentation of a comparative analysis of the work of mental health social workers and community psychiatric nurses, an issue of importance because of "community care" and also important as much of their work territory overlaps. The findings are more favourable to social workers.

Product Description: Care in the Community: Illusion or Reality? (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text looks at the issues surrounding the "care in the community" approach to mental health welfare. It describes two community housing projects, their aims, philosophy, staffing and resources in relation to local mental health, and provides insights into the structure of individuals' social networks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume contains research highlighting the valuable ways in which community psychiatric nurses and their colleagues might work with seriously mentally ill patients, and includes projects such as stress, telephone work and targetting services for the seriously mentally ill.

Product Description: This text looks at a project which began in 1989, to integrate people with learning disabilities into the community. It covers the outcomes and effectiveness of the project, the costs, staffing and how care in the community can be developed further.

Product Description: This text looks at a project which began in 1989, to integrate people with learning disabilities into the community. It covers the outcomes and effectiveness of the project, the costs, staffing and how care in the community can be developed further.

Product Description: Community Psychology Theory and Practice Jim Orford, University of Exeter, UK Community psychology is a comparatively new area within psychology. Its perspective is that people and their problems can only be understood by considering the social settings and systems of which they are part and with which they interact continuously over time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Normalization, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long-stay hospitals, has recently become the focus of much academic and professional attention. As the community care debate has moved into the public arena, it has attracted a certain amount of criticism, acknowledging the political and philosophical conflicts that surround it...read more