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Looking to the future: key issues for contemporary mental health services
- Editor:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing,|Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 229p.bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Focusing on central issues and debates, key research findings and current challenges, the book is illustrated with mental health service users' poems and photographs, and presents a broad overview of the mental heath care system which is looking to the future. The book is intended as a reader for the Certificate in Community Mental Health Care. Contents include: perspectives on mental health and illness; issues around empowerment; carpers' testimonies; legal contexts across the UK; individual care planning; risk and safety; anti-racist practice in mental health assessment; community mental health services; working with people with long term needs; strategies for living with mental distress; understanding relationships; the soul of psychiatry.