Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services : "I Am More Than My Label"

ISBN-13: 9780789027948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 196 str.

Joel Simon; Thorana Strever Nelson

Opis

Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by focusing on a patient's personal feelings and hopes. In fact, these established methods can even have a dehumanizing and devaluing effect on a patient. Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services is a practical introduction and guide that provides practitioners an alternative way of thinking about and working with individuals who have been long-term users of the mental health system. Through interviews, case studies, and actual client testimony, this valuable text demonstrates the most effective ways to establish patient-centered conversations that forge collaborative relationships, realize strengths, and use them to move toward healing.

Spis treści

• Foreword (Yvonne Dolan)
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Tools of Solution-Focused Brief Practice
• Stance
• Assumptions and Concepts
• Practices
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3. Mary, the “Borderline”
• I’m a Borderline, You Know
• Chapter 4. “I Have More of a Sound Mind Now”
• Appreciating the Ordinary
• Conversations That Make a Difference: Nadine
• A Difference That Makes a Difference
• Conclusion
• Chapter 5. “Agoraphobia” and “Me” Are Not Synonymous
• De- and Re-Construction
• Emotions in Therapy
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6. Rethinking the Medical Model
• A Different Language Game
• Solution-Building Conversations
• What Does the Patient Say?
• Psychiatric Medications
• Conclusion
• Chapter 7. Psychiatry Should Be a Parenthesis in People’s Lives
• Harry Korman
• Alasdair Macdonald
• Ralph Dahle
• Sophie Duriez
• Conclusion
• Chapter 8. Meta-Systemic Considerations of Solution-Focused Brief Approach: Using the Ideas to Implement Solution-Focused Practices in Agencies and Hospitals
• Joel’s Experiences
• Chapter 9. Philosophies that Inform Solution-Focused Brief Practice: Poststructuralism, Social Constructionism, and Language Games
• Philosophy
• Structuralism
• Poststructuralism
• Constructivism/Social Constructionism
• Language Games
• Epilogue
• References
• Index

O autorze

Joel K. Simon, Thorana S. Nelson