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Helping the helpers not to harm: iatrogenic damage and community mental health
- Authors:
- CAPLAN Gerald, CAPLAN Ruth B
- Publisher:
- Brunner-Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 256p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
In this book the authors use the term 'iatrogenic' to refer to the damage caused, often inadvertently, to a child or adult with mental health problems by any caregiver, whether physician, psychiatrist, therapist, teacher, school guidance counselor, social worker, or judge, in the course of a professional intervention.
A Suitable space: improving counselling services for Asian people
- Authors:
- NETTO Gina, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 41p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Examines the views of counselling held by Asian people experiencing stress, anxiety and depression, and uses this as a basis for considering how voluntary sector counselling provision for this group can be improved. Explores participants' experience of informal support; experiences of counselling; their expectations and preferences for service delivery; and existing services in the voluntary sector.
Social work practice in mental health: contemporary roles, tasks, and techniques
- Editor:
- BENTLEY Kia
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 403p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
This book presents a "partnership" model which addresses the need immediately useful discipline specific content on the most important social work practice roles in mental health. The book articulates how roles often associated with working with a specific population (e.g. those who abuse substances, persons with severe mental illness, distressed marital couples) are quite relevant and useful in a much wider range of populations. Experts address social workers' many roles: crisis counselor, diagnostician, therapist, mediator, educator, skills trainer, case manager, mediation facilitator, consumer and family consultant, team collaborator, advocate, programme evaluator/ researcher, and administrator and policy analyst.
Developmental perspective on children's exposure to stressful life events: implications for mental health promotion
- Author:
- HART Bret
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 3(3), September 2001, pp.11-15.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Comments on the article by Moshe Israelashvili in this issue of the International Journal of Mental Health Promotion. Uses Australian examples of service provision to support his comments.
Asylum-seekers, refugees and mental health services in the UK
- Author:
- SUMMERFIELD Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 25(5), May 2001, pp.161-163.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Reviews such evidence as exists on the use of health services by asylum-seekers and refugees. Suggests that their use of mental health services is impaired by lack of interpretation services and culturally inappropriate diagnoses. Argues that concepts such as post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma counselling may be unsuitable and risk pathologising service users unnecessarily. Employment and social networks may play a larger part in ensuring well-being than availability of mental health services.
Evidence-based psychological interventions in mental health nursing
- Authors:
- PALEY Graham, SHAPIRO David
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.1.01, 2001, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the some of the research evidence which supports alternative counselling methods to cognitive behaviour therapy.
Mental health service utilization among frail, low-income elders: perceptions of home service providers and elders in the community
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anissa, BARUSCH Amanda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 34(2), 2001, pp.23-38.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study was conducted to determine the extent to which service providers in a community-based care programme in the USA accurately identified and referred elders with symptoms of depression. Interviews were conducted with 79 frail, low-income elders. Reviews of their case files were then conducted to determine first, the extent to which case managers recognised depressive symptoms and second, the extent to which respondents who screened with significant symptoms were referred for mental health services. Results suggest an imperfect association between symptoms and case managers' perceptions and referrals.