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Post-qualifying mental health social work practice
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Jim, DAVIDSON Gavin
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 224p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social workers and other professionals working in the area of mental health often face complex and difficult practice dilemmas shaped by increasingly demanding policy and legal contexts across the UK. This book focuses on the post-qualifying role played by mental health social workers, drawing on theoretical and research perspectives on the subject, before outlining how professionals can achieve best practice. The topics covered include: models of mental health and illness; discrimination and social exclusion; addressing service user needs; carer perspectives; working with individuals, families and communities; and multi-disciplinary working. The chapters are accompanied by exercises, aimed at encouraging readers to critically reflect on their own professional and personal experiences. Case studies are also included to illustrate the information provided in the text. This book will be of interest to social work practitioners taking postgraduate courses in mental health and for those training to become Approved Mental Health Professionals.
Risk and ageing
- Author:
- BREARLEY C. Paul
- Publisher:
- Routledge and Kegan Paul
- Publication year:
- 1982
- Pagination:
- 149p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social work for better mental health: a strategic statement
- Authors:
- ALLEN Ruth, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 17
- Place of publication:
- London
One of a suite of three resources published as part of the ‘Social Work for Better Mental Health’ initiative, this document provides an overview of the strategic place and importance of social work in mental health services. It highlights the specific skills and knowledge social workers have and how they are ideally placed to support people with mental health problems. The five role categories from The College of Social Work paper ‘The role of the social work in adult mental health’, published in 2014, are referred to throughout to show how they can address strategic challenges and opportunities. Sections discuss the: state of mental health services today; statutory social work; inclusion, rights and citizenship; the role of Approved Mental Health Professionals; prevention and wellbeing across communities; and the importance of getting the organisational context right for social work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social work with adults
- Author:
- DAVIES Martin Brett
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 370p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Social workers are constantly making decisions under pressure. This book brings together a number of expert contributors to explore the issues within policy, law, research and theory which influence what adult social workers do and will define practice in the future. The book is presented in 4 parts: social work and the personalisation agenda; social work and mental health; social work and substance use; and social work and old age. Each part is divided into sections which: outline the policy background; summarise the relevant law; describe the key theories; and highlight the research findings. A number of real life case studies are used to reveal, in detail, the challenges that social workers face every day. Through a series of questions, readers are invited to join in the process of 'making connexions' between different elements of social work knowledge and practice. This book is likely to be of interest to students, educators and practitioners.
Policy prescriptions
- Author:
- DUGGAN Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.2.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how mental health users and practitioners can create new policy and practice within the confines of care trusts and medical models of health.
Steering a course between extremes
- Author:
- DUGGAN Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.4.98, 1998, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Mental health services are again under the scrutiny of the politicians as the government rethinks community care. Assesses the impact of change on social workers.
Race, racism and mental health social work : implications for local authority policy and training
- Authors:
- BOWL Ric, BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 8(2), 1990, pp.12-18.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Examines differences in referral rates and compulsory detention in psychiatric hospitals of people from different ethnic backgrounds and what policy and training initiatives exist to respond to different needs.