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Working alongside people with long term mental health problems
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel E., REPPER Julie M
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 235p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Concentrates specifically on day to day work with long term users of mental health services, focusing on empowering users as far as possible. Contains sections on: people and their needs; roles and relationships; contexts of support; therapeutic interventions; and challenges for the future.
Compliance of informed choice
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel E., REPPER Julie M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(2), April 1999, pp.117-129.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the ways in which attempts to increase compliance with psychotropic medication run counter to the goal of enabling people to make informed choices about their treatment. An alternative approach to understanding why people behave in the way that they do is explored within the framework of health belief models of behaviour developed in relation to physical health illness.