'Second edition grounds the strengths model of case management within the recovery paradigm and details evidence-based guidelines for practice. Describes the conceptual underpinnings, theory, empirical support, principles, and practice methods that comprise the strengths model of case management'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: The book is a compendium of articles from Psychiatric Services on issues in community treatment of severe mental illness.

Product Description: Career Recovery: Best Practices in the Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons With Serious Mental Illness. Best practices in the vocational rehabilitation of persons with serious mental illness. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Traditional protocol among the helping professions, including social work, involves identifying and labeling particular pathologies and weaknesses of clients, and then prescribing treatment to correct the functioning deficits. Nowhere has this tradition been stronger than in the mental health services for adults with severe and persistent mental illness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Relevant and thought-provoking, describes a new and imaginative approach to the needs of de-institutionalised people returning to care in the community. It shows that there is a challenging but dynamic contribution to be made by all community mental health workers in restoring dignity to the lives of those who have tragically been robbed of such a basic human need...read more