Working with Mental Illness: A Community-Based Approach

ISBN-13: 9780333947333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 152 str.

Derek Tilbury

Opis

This second edition of a classic text offers experience-based, practical guidelines for social workers and others regarding long term work with sufferers from the psychoses (principally affective disorders, schizophrenia and dementia). It explores the context of practice: definitions of mental health and illnesses attitudes to psychiatry and psychiatric services and the influence of social policy. Using practice axioms, the book examines direct work with sufferers, work for sufferers with the clinical team, the social environment and work with the families affected.

Spis treści

Preface and Author's Note.- Introductory Parameters.- Determinants of Practice I: Defining Mental Health and Mental Illness.- Determinants of Practice II: Attitudes to Psychiatry.- Practice Issues: Reflections from Experience.- Working with the Sufferer.- Working for the Sufferer I: The Team.- Working for the Sufferer II: The Environment.-The Family: Responding to Needs.-Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

DEREK TILBURY trained as a psychiatric social worker, practising in Warwickshire and York. He subsequently became a lecturer in social work, holding posts at Nottingham, Leeds Metropolitan and Sunderland Universities. Now retired, he maintains his long-standing involvement with Mind and the British Association of Social Workers.

Blurb

The second edition of this classic text has been fully updated to reflect the changing context of practice and the considerable shifts in the field of mental health policy. It explores how current major issues, such as the social exclusion experienced by those suffering from mental illness, civil liberties and human rights concerns and apprehensions around public protection can impinge on practice, together with emerging developments such as the growth of the user movement.

With its focus on sound practice, this edition continues to provide highly relevant, experience-based guidelines for practice for social workers and others working with sufferers from the psychoses (principally affective disorders, schizophrenia and dementia). Using practice axioms, the book examines direct work with sufferers, work for sufferers within the clinical team and the social environment, with a particular reference to work with the families affected. In addition this clearly written text discusses definitions of mental health and illnesses and explores attitudes to psychiatry and psychiatric services.

Well-structured and engagingly written, this important text provides clear guidance for practice in a complex and demanding field.