Product Description: The last 40 years has seen a significant shift from state commitment to asylum-based mental health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this deinstitutionalisation, attention to date has focussed on users and providers of care...read more

Product Description: This volume examines the issues surrounding sexuality and reproduction in chronically mentally ill patients. Some of the issues discussed include talking with patients about sexuality; gynaecological care, birth control and safe sex; management of high risk pregnancy; medication, drugs and pregnancy; and fathers with major mental illness...read more

Product Description: Practical and evidence-based, this unique book is the first comprehensive text focused on person-centered approaches to people with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It reflects a range of views and findings regarding assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, self-help, policy-making, education and research...read more

Assertive outreach is a means of helping people with serious and persistent mental health difficulties who have not engaged with conventional mental health services. Reaching Out examines the application of psychological approaches in assertive outreach – a process which involves forming new relationships and offering hope to people who have been alienated from traditional methods. Reaching Out begins with a discussion of topics including: engagement the team approach assessments team case formulation managing stress and burnout for staff. The second half of the book focuses on the task of delivering psychological therapies and considers a range of models including psychodynamic therapy, family therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and community approaches. Reaching Out: The Psychology of Assertive Outreach demonstrates that the relationship between staff and service users is essential to the process of recovery and personal growth. The approach will apply not only to assertive outreach teams, but also to clinical psychologists, counsellors and other mental health professionals who are interested in psychological approaches to outreach work.

Product Description: Ensuring that mental health laws protect human rights in both theory and practice is an ongoing challenge. This volume explores the effect that the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other international trends in human rights may have on domestic mental health laws...read more

Product Description: A practical, compassionate guide to building a supportive relationship with someone with a mental illness--while taking care of yourself.The ultimate goal of those with a mental disorder and the people who love them is balance: emotional, mental, spiritual, and behavioral...read more

Product Description: As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implications of medicine are being called into question as never before. Martin Levine's collection brings together the seminal papers written on the nexus between mental illness, its treatment and its relationship to the law...read more

Product Description: Mental health advocacy is a relatively new concept, developed with a view to reducing stigma and discrimination, and promoting the human rights of people with mental disorders. It consists of various actions aimed at changing the major structural and attitudinal barriers to achieving positive mental health outcomes in populations...read more

Product Description: Synthesizing the growing body of biomedical and psychosocial research on the nature and treatment of severe mental illness, this volume presents an innovative framework for planning and implementing effective rehabilitation services...read more

Product Description: Shocked by the fact that, in the Netherlands, psychiatric patients are considered potentially appropriate candidates for physician-assisted suicide, Olevitch examines the research and data and finds that, even in the United States, the situation is threatening...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and variety of models. But how are these models translated into real experience? How do caseworkers use both textbook and practical knowledge to assist clients with managing their medication and their money? Using ethnographic and historical-sociological methods, Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness uncovers unexpected differences between written and oral accounts of case management in practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With thirty-four essays from some of the leading mental health professionals practicing today, Treatment Compliance and the Therapeutic Alliance captures the science, the art, and the problems of caring for the mentally ill. An important study of the patient/doctor/caregiver dynamic, the book examines issues such as compliance theory, familial responsibilities in regard to treatment delivery, administrative and clinical policies and obligations, and the compliance problems faced when treating those suffering from schizophrenia, developmental disabilities, and alcoholis...read more

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Product Description: Based on an empirical examination of psychiatric care both past and present,Asylum in the Community clearly defines the concept of asylum and shows how it can be provided effectively outside the hospital. Drawing on work in the USA, Belgium, Spain, Ireland and England, contributors analyse such services from both user and provider perspectives...read more

Product Description: The integration of a broad array of interventions is described in this comprehensive, practical guide for those working with seriously mentally ill adults. It draws on the experience of clients who struggle with severe and disabling problems in a challenging urban environment...read more

Product Description: Incompetency is loss of the ability to make, and act on, your own decisions and with the aging of North America's population, it is increasingly widespread. It can happen to anyone and many people want to plan for its possibility in order to ensure their own care and protection...read more

Product Description: This work describes the overwhelming problems families face in dealing with their relatives who suffer from psychiatric disorders. The majority of the text consists of direct anonymous quotations from a questionnaire mailed to families of hospitalized patients as well as results from interviews done in the course of the author's employment as a clinical social worker in a state hospital...read more

Discusses home care versus a treatment facility, financial assistance, selecting a physician, handling stress, balancing family needs, and other issues

Product Description: This book is for caregivers: those who care for and about children and adults who reside on the very edge of family and community life. It is for those who not only want to help these distanced individuals but for those who also want to change themselves in the process...read more

Product Description: The object of this book is to persuade readers that the families of their patients should be treated both as a therapeutic resource and as a legitimate focus of professional concern. It sets out strategies that can be used to define the problems relatives may face...read more