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The use and misuse of psychiatric drugs: an evidence-based critique
- Author:
- PARIS Joel
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 224p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book presents the ways in which psychiatric drugs are evaluated and prescribed. It highlights the complexity of the task, the limits of what is known and the mixed picture that research often produces. After describing the history of psychopharmacology, including its early successes, the book reviews the relationship between psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. This problem has received considerable popular attention in recent years and the book documents initiatives to increase transparency and decrease the influence of pharmaceutical marketing on diagnosis and prescribing habits. The author briefly considers alternatives to pharmacology and calls for more clinical trials of these approaches. He also discusses the current trend to medicalising what many would describe as normal distress and mental state. The book is designed for practitioners and trainees to show that scientific evidence supports a more cautious and conservative approach to drug therapy.
Interprofessional teamwork in health and social care
- Authors:
- REEVES Scott, et al
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 208p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This guide is aimed at clinicians, academics, managers and policymakers who need to understand, implement and evaluate interprofessional teamwork. It describes how teams function, issues relating to the evaluation of teamwork, and approaches to creating and implementing interventions (such as team training and quality improvement initiatives) within health and social care settings. It also aims to raise awareness of the wide range of theories that can inform interprofessional teamwork. The book is divided into 9 chapters. The first outlines some common issues which underpin interprofessional teamwork, while the second discusses current teamwork developments around the globe. Chapter 3 explores a range of team concepts, and chapter 4 offers a new framework for understanding interprofessional teamwork. The next 3 chapters discuss how a range of range of social science theories, interventions and evaluation approaches can be employed to advance this field. Chapter 8 presents a synthesis of research into teams that the authors have undertaken in Canada, South Africa and the UK. The final chapter draws together key threads and offers ideas for future of teamwork. A range of resources for designing, implementing and evaluating interprofessional teamwork activities are provided. The book forms part of a series entitled Promoting Partnership for Health.
Voices of experience: narratives of mental health survivors
- Editors:
- BASSET Thurstine, STICKLEY Theo, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 212p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book contains a wide range of stories written by mental health survivors. The narratives highlight how survivors have developed self-management techniques and strategies for living which offer a guide to anybody struggling with modern life. The book explores a wide variety of mental distress experiences, underpinned by many different explanations and beliefs. Narrative has been central to the recovery approach and this book presents stories of recovery as well as an appraisal of the concept. The book challenges simplistic explanations of recovery and offers a critical angle to our understanding of what it means to experience mental health problems. It offers guidance for mental health workers and professionals within the context of current mental health policies in the UK.
Systematic review of early intervention programmes for children from birth to nine years who have a physical disability
- Authors:
- ZIVIANI Jenny, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Occupational Therapy, 57(4), August 2010, pp.210-223.
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
Ten early intervention programmes with a wide range of intervention types, participants, and outcome measures, were included in this systematic review. A number of positive outcomes, both child-related and family-related, were reported but further analysis was prevented due to methodological limitations. The need for more, well-designed studies that include baseline data, long-term follow-up and standardised outcome measures is emphasised.
Post-traumatic syndromes in childhood and adolescence: a handbook of research and practice
- Editors:
- ARDINO Vittoria, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 448p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
The editor brings together contributions from international experts in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of current research and intervention techniques for traumatised young people. This is believed to be one of few titles focusing specifically on post-traumatic syndromes in children and adolescents. Writers cover the field of developmental trauma and related post-traumatic reactions and the implications of PTSD in settings such as school and family. The book emphasises the state-of-the art developments in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of PTSD in children and adolescents. It is wide in scope, covering: the role of child development; of social risk and resilience in local and international settings, PTSD’s associations with criminal behaviour; and the use of neurobiological, cognitive and attachment models in understanding its causes. School-based and social interventions and treatments are discussed.
Valuing older people: positive psychological practice
- Author:
- STIRLING Elspeth
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 213p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
A global guide to positive psychological practice when dealing with older and very old people. The author, previously a clinical psychologist, champions social role valorisation (SRV) in relation to older people and ageing. SRV theory is based on opposing society’s tendency to devalue particular groups of people because they are ‘different. The author applies it, not only to counteract stereotyped attitudes that older people are valueless, but to promote beneficial effects of having our elders active in society and observing and learning from, for example, their coping behaviour. Chapters cover: the psychology and ecology of ageing; preventive psychology in later life; assessment in the new paradigm; new paradigm principles for intervention; older people and cognitive disabilities; new paradigm principles of service design; and psychological therapies with older people.
Evidence-based decisions and economics: health care, social welfare, education and criminal justice
- Editors:
- SHEMILT Ian, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 206p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Contributors describe how the activities and outputs of evidence synthesis, systematic review, economic analysis and decision making interact within and across the spheres health and social policy. Case studies and illustrative examples are used throughout. Expanding on the first edition, this publication now cover the fields of social welfare, education and criminal justice, alongside those of health care. However, it is noted that the integration of economic and systematic review methodologies are not so developed outside of the health. Relevant for policy-makers and practitioners using evidence to inform decisions; analysts conducting research and students.
Multiculturalism and diversity: a social psychological perspective
- Author:
- LOTT Bernice
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 184p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book explores the ways in which history and identity inform each other, and examines the politics of culture as well as the politics of cultural identities within the United States. It highlights the basic proposition that each of us is a unique multicultural human being, and that culture affects individual self-definition, experience, behaviour, and social interaction. The book moves from early simple definitions of multiculturalism into more complex understandings focused on culture as learned and teachable entity. The author, using a critical approach to the study of culture and personal identity that is informed by historical and social factors and an appreciation of their interaction, examines the various cultural threads within a person’s multicultural self, such as sexual identity, gender, social class, and ethnicity. Chapters include: the multicultural person; culture; ethnicity; gender; social class; sexual identity cultures; the cultural mosaic; and some implications for research and practice.
Managing aggressive behaviour in care settings: understanding and applying low arousal approaches
- Author:
- MCDONNELL Andrew A.
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 257p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Challenging behaviours can be encountered regularly in various care settings. This book aims to provide care givers with helpful guidance and the practical skills necessary to manage these aggressive behaviours. It traces the development and evaluation of the low arousal approach, a staff-based intervention that focuses on reducing levels of arousal in crisis situations. This non-confrontational approach encompasses de-escalation strategies and physical management within a clear person-centred philosophy. The book describes the development of a core 3-day training course to help carers to manage challenging behaviours. It outlines the application of this training to a variety of different care environments, such as intellectual disabilities, autism, mental health services of children and adults, and services for older adults. For each of these areas, background advice is provided on managing aggressive behaviour that is relevant to the particular area, and case studies are presented. Research evidence for the effectiveness of staff training in physical interventions is reviewed. The final chapter examines many of the important themes raised in the book.
Female sexual offenders: theory, assessment and treatment
- Editors:
- GANNON Theresa A., CORTONI Franca, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 206p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
The editors and 17 contributors from the UK, Canada and USA bring together current research about, and clinical assessment of, intervention and treatment practices used with female sex offenders. Sexual violence from women has long been underestimated according to this book, with empirical research and published literature tending to be dominated by the misdeeds of men. In 11 chapters it tries to redress the balance. The opening chapters define context and give background information on prevalence, young sex offenders, and current theories trying to explain this phenomenon. Several practitioners detail their current assessment strategies, their patients' treatment needs, effectiveness of interventions, the processes they currently favour, and those which are used internationally. Reference is made to the latest research findings and the use of polygraphs with female sex offenders. The risk of recidivism is also discussed. The writers call for increased, gender-informed research efforts in order to continue with the progress which has been made to date and is summarised in this text.