Learning about mental health practice [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Theo Stickley and Thurstine Basset

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (640 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.2
• Soggetto topico: Mental health services - Practice
• Altri autori: StickleyTheo BassetThurstine
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Learning about Mental Health Practice; Contents; About the editors; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgement; Introduction Theo Stickley and Thurstine Basset; PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE - THE TEN ESSENTIAL SHARED CAPABILITIES; 1 The ten essential shared capabilities: their background, development and implementation; 2 The ten essential shared capabilities in practice; 3 Working in partnership; 4 Respecting diversity through acknowledging, valuing and using diversity and challenging inequalities (AVUDCI) ; 5 Practising ethically: values-based practice and ethics - working together to support person-centred and multidisciplinary mental health care6 Challenging inequality; 7 Promoting recovery; 8 Identifying people's needs and strengths; 9 Providing service user centred care; 10 Making a difference; 11 Positive risk taking: a framework for practice; 12 Personal development and learning; PART II: ISSUES FOR MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE; 13 Social perspectives on mental distress; 14 Socially inclusive practice; 15 Equality and rights: Overcoming social exclusion and discrimination ; 16 Service user involvement17 Connecting the parts to the whole: Achieving effective teamwork in complex systems; 18 Problems associated with the use of the concept 'mental illness'; 19 Drugs, alcohol and mental health; 20 Gender inequality and the mental health of women and men; 21 The trauma model of psychosis; PART III: APPROACHES FOR MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE; 22 Carers' experiences of mental health services and views about assessments: Lessons from the Partnership in Carer Assessments Project (PICAP); 23 Therapeutic relationships; 24 Psychological approaches to mental health ; 25 Employment: What you should know and what you should do26 Treating creatively: The challenge of treating the creative mind; 27 Social inclusion and psychosocial interventions: Clash, compromise or coherence?; 28 Spirituality and mental health; 29 Holistic approaches in mental health; 30 The capable practitioner of the future; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: <b>Theo Stickley</b> trained in counselling and mental health nursing, and practised in both professions for many years. He now teaches mental health at the University of Nottingham and has published widely in the nursing and mental health press. The focus of his research is mental health and the arts, and he has led on a number of research projects in collaboration with people who use mental health services. Theo is a keen gardener, motorcyclist and artist (but has not yet found a way to combine all three simultaneously). <b>Thurstine Basset</b> trained as social worker and worked as a comm
• Titolo autorizzato: Learning about mental health practice
• ISBN: 1-282-12389-0; 9786612123894; 0-470-69930-2; 0-470-98662-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910144682903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II