Product Description: Health workers who provide services to persons with severe mental illness are frequently under enormous stress; burnout is common. Alleviating such stress is the objective of Interactive Staff Training. The book provides rehabilitation and mental health professionals with a strategy to help them and their colleagues work as a well-integrated team...read more

Product Description: Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) have evolved over the last 30-40 years to serve patients with mental illnesses who would previously have been treated in large mental hospitals. They play a pivotal role in the provision of mental health care in the developed world...read more

Developing mental health team effectiveness requires that we explore both how people work together and the context of the team itself. This text examines the historical, social policy, political and organizational context alongside the design and the management of team processes.

Product Description: This book is a study of schizophrenia in a modern psychiatric hospital. Its purpose is to develop a contextual understanding of schizophrenia by studying the clinical setting in which this disorder is experienced, diagnosed and treated, and it arises from an anthropological investigation of the day-to-day work of clinical staff...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume provides therapists with a guide to producing complete child evaluations. The role of the therapist in the collaborative effort of team-based diagnoses and how to work within this group approach is covered. Case studies are also provided which demonstrate this approach...read more

Product Description: What happens when the barriers between therapists and clients are removed, when they all participate in a dialogue about change, and when therapists and clients even trade places? As Lynn Hoffman says in her forward to this remarkable book, it "dramatically alters a family's position in relation to the professionals they have come to see...read more

Product Description: This practical volume focuses on the importance of observation training and techniques for the recognition, identification, diagnosis, and treatment of children with immediate or potential problems.