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Strategies for managing auditory hallucinations
- Author:
- WESTACOTT Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.1.95, 1995, pp.35-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reviews some of the recent literature and describes how a number of strategies can be used to help individuals gain control over their hallucinations and reduce the level of distress experienced.
Mental health and religion
- Author:
- LOEWENTHAL Kate Miriam
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 256p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores religious behaviour and provides a guide for those helping or working with people with mental health problems, stressing throughout that what is normal in one society may not be considered to be so in another. Looks at the relationship between religion and psychotherapy, the mental effects of religious change and conversion, and the roles of women and men and whether women in traditional religions are disempowered and depressed.
Present tense, past imperfect
- Author:
- WALKER Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, December 1994, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at the history of the use of therapeutic social work in helping people with mental health problems.
Talking about therapy
- Author:
- EPHRAIM Nona
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 71, October 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Reports on the experience of some mental health users of counselling and psychotherapy.
Elements of culture and mental health: critical questions for clinicians
- Author:
- BHUI Kamaldeep
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 112p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Acknowledging the need for mental health professionals to ensure that interventions are culturally appropriate, acceptable and ethical, this book aims to assist professionals to work confidently with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Developed by service users, practitioners, teachers and researchers, it presents clinical scenario essays focusing on improving the quality of care for culturally diverse populations. It includes discussion of challenges and obstacles to improving care, treatments and interventions, and working with interpreters. References for further reading are included.
ALL talk: a study of talking and mental health
- Author:
- EAST BERKSHIRE MIND. Slough User Led Consultation
- Publisher:
- East Berkshire Mind
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- Slough
Reports on the findings of a qualitative study which explores issues of talking and mental health from talking to friends and family, through use of mental health services (in particular the dynamics of professional/client relationships), to formal talking therapies. The research was based on a large number of extended interviews. This user led study was designed and carried out by Slough User Led Consultation, a group supported by East Berkshire Mind.
Prescriptive psychotherapy: alternatives to diagnosis
- Author:
- BEDI Robinder Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Psychotherapy in Independent Practice, 2(2), 2001, pp.39-60.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of this paper is to introcuce uninformed mental health professionals to traditional prescriptive psychotherapy and to highlight potential client factors which can guide the selection of particiular interventions, relational stances, approaches, and orientations. Although some would be quick to point out that almost all mental health professionals advocate tailoring interventions to fit the client, true prescriptive psychotherapists employ direct empirical evidence in tailoring and do not limit themselves to one or just a few orientations. To aid in this endeavour, the three most prominent and theoretically devloped systems of prescriptive psychotherapy (Multimodal psychotherapy, systematic treatment selection and stage-based psychotherapy), and two particularly useful categories of idiographic factrs (the therapeutic relationship and the client's worldview) are introduced and discussed.
The Nature of unhappiness
- Author:
- SMAIL David
- Publisher:
- Constable and Robinson
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 509p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The author sees psychotherapy as having limited value in treating psychological disorders in modern society and argues that it is not the will to change ourselves that is needed, but the will to change our social order.
Mental health and HIV infection: psychological and psychiatric aspects
- Editor:
- CATALAN Jose
- Publisher:
- UCL Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 241p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents an overview of the adverse mental health consequences of HIV infection and of the kind of psychological, phsychopharmacological and community forms of intervention available. Includes chapters on: psychological problems in people with HIV infection; HIV and its impact on the mental health of children; dementia associated with HIV infection; suicidal behaviour and HIV infection; euthanasia, physician assisted suicide and AIDS; psychological interventions; and cognitive behavioural therapy and HIV risk sexual behaviour.
Psychotherapy, distributive justice, and social work revisited
- Author:
- WAKEFIELD Jerome C.
- Journal article citation:
- Smith College Studies in Social Work, 69(1), November 1998, pp.25-57.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Comments on an article by Harvey Dean (1998). He argues that social work has broader ethical aims that encompass both pursuit of justice and treatment of mental disorder. In this article, the author reviews his earlier position and responds to Dean's objections. Argues that Dean's narrativist account of the profession's ethical aims is overly broad and that he confuses non-disordered psychological problems with mental disorders. Concludes that neither his 'minimal distributive justice' view of social work's mission nor his exclusion of treatment of mental disorder from the profession's essential mission are disconfirmed by Dean's arguments.