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A can of madness
- Author:
- PEGLER Jason
- Publisher:
- Chipmunkapublishing
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 300p.
- Place of publication:
- Brentwood
The author offers his readers a unique opportunity to emphasize with sufferers of the condition known as Manic depression ( Bi-Polar disorder) in this compelling account of his ordeal with this illness. The author takes the reader through his personal transformation from an uncouth teenager taking ecstasy to someone who grows up realising that they can use their own past pain, get better and help other people. The book was written using excerpts of a diary written at the time of the author’s flights into mania and his descents into depression. The author recounts a dizzying, dark and sometimes euphoric journey through a world of elation, despair, binge drinking, drugs, raves, and psychiatric wards.
Links between drug and alcohol misuse and psychiatric disorders
- Author:
- LITTLEJOHN Christopher
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 4.1.05, 2005, pp.34-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Substance use is common in a wide range of psychiatric disorders, which can increase the risks of use developing into a substance use disorder. Conversely, substance use disorders are frequently accompanied by psychiatric symptoms. In some people these indicate formal psychiatric disorder. Whatever the causes, comorbidity may complicate treatment and resolution of both disorders, often presenting as a vicious circle that is difficult to break.
Parental psychiatric disorder: distressed parents and their families
- Editor:
- GOPFERT Michael
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 406p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
- Edition:
- 2nd
Perhaps as many as 50 in every 100 mentally ill patients are parents living with their children. It is well established that mental illness in a parent seriously and often adversely affects their children's development, though strangely this is not adequately reflected in clinical service provision. This book covers hitherto uncharted territory. By drawing together clinical experience from a wide range of centres, it effectively addresses the needs of mentally ill parents and their children; helping to bridge the current gap between adult and children's services and foster a family oriented perspective. The wide range of editorial experience from both social work and psychiatry at research and clinical levels are vital attributes in providing depth and breadth to this multidisciplinary volume. Enlivened by case vignettes, the coverage ranges from medical and general psychological and psychiatric issues through to intervention strategies and clinical service provision.
Assessment and management of risk of harm in clients with dual diagnosis
- Authors:
- ALCOHOL CONCERN, DRUGSCOPE
- Publisher:
- Alcohol Concern/Drugscope
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines how to provide integrated treatment for clients with both substance abuse and mental health problems. Reviews the diagnosis and assessment of dual diagnosis clients, and goes on to discuss treatment and risk management of schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorders and personality disorders, where they are complicated by substance abuse.
Dual diagnosis: an integrated approach to treatment
- Authors:
- WATKINS Ted R., LEWELLEN Ara, BARRETT Marjie C
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 217p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA
Examines how to provide integrated treatment for clients with both substance abuse and mental health problems. Reviews the diagnosis and assessment of dual diagnosis clients, and goes on to discuss treatment of schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorders and personality disorders, where they are complicated by substance abuse. Also discusses primary substance abuse disorders.