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Choosing talking therapies?
- Author:
- COONEY Geraldine
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet provides information for people who feel depressed or unhappy, or who have emotional problems they cannot sort out on their own. It tells about the psychological help - or talking therapies - that are available for adults on the National Health Service (NHS). It explains what talking therapies are and what they aim to do. The information in this booklet is based on evidence from research studies on psychological therapies. They have been turned into guidelines for GPs on treatment options for people with emotional difficulties or mental health problems. The booklet also includes evidence and quotes from services users; this comes from research by the Mental Health Foundation.
Recovery and strengths based practice
- Author:
- McCORMACK John
- Publisher:
- Scottish Recovery Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This is the sixth in a series of discussion papers designed to help generate debate on how best to promote and support recovery from long-term mental health problems in Scotland. This paper discusses the role of strengths in recovery and strengths based practice describing Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) as one particular model. Strengths based practice is a paradigm shift in mental health and has been implemented widely in the design and delivery of services in New Zealand, Canada, North America, Japan and increasingly so in the UK. This discussion paper contrasts a deficits approach with a strengths approach, and explores the meaning of strengths and from this how to assess for strengths as well as needs. The solution focused approach is offered as a model of how to implement strengths based practice.
Final demand: debt and mental health
- Authors:
- FIRST STEP TRUST, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS. College Research and Training Unit
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One in three people with a serious mental health problem are in debt. This booklet provides practical advice for health workers on dealing with this issue. It doesn't expect health workers to become debt advisers, but describes the big differences that they can make by knowing and doing small things.
Mental illness, medicine and law
- Editors:
- LEVINE Martin Lyon, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 598p.
- Place of publication:
- Farnham
As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implications of medicine are being called into question as never before. This collection brings together the seminal papers written on the nexus between mental illness, its treatment and its relationship to the law. The volume also provides an informative introduction, summarising the area and the relevance of the articles chosen. Sections include: the seriously ill – involuntary short-term treatment; the ordinary mind – the psychological underpinnings of law; and the therapist – informed consent.
Let's talk mental health: a booklet for people who are using mental health services
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This booklet is for adults who are experiencing mental health difficulties. It offers guidance on what to expect from Mental Health Services and to show how users can become more involved in decisions about care and treatment. Contents include: why should you get actively involved?; coming into contact with Mental Health Professionals; your General Practitioner; specialist psychological therapies; admission to a mental health unit; discharge and aftercare; taking medications and medication safety; contacting mental health services in times of crisis; some terms used in mental health and what they mean; mutual respect; giving feedback and making complaints. Details useful organisations are also provided.
Star wards
- Editors:
- JANNER Marion, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Bright
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 62p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
There's excellent, rarely publicised, practice across the country on acute mental health wards, with patients accessing high quality therapeutic, creative and recreational opportunities. Star Wards works with mental health trusts to enhance acute inpatients' daily experiences and treatment outcomes. Members of the Star Wards' network try to implement whichever of the 75 practical ideas are relevant to them, and our role is to support wards with information and resources. Members also generously share their own examples of great practice and also of challenges they face.
Star wards 2: the sequel
- Editors:
- JANNER Marion, PAGE Nick, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Bright
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 114p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Star Wards 2 – The Sequel is a compendium and celebration of some of the fabulous work taking place across the country in mental health inpatient wards. From Qi Gong to comedy gigs, ward staff are providing patients with experiences which are not only therapeutic but also often fun.
Abnormal and clinical psychology: an introductory textbook
- Author:
- BENNETT Paul
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 508p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
- Edition:
- 2nd
What are the causes of mental health problems? What are the best treatments for mental health problems? How do the experiences of people with mental health problems compare with the academic models of disorders? Building on the success of the first edition, this textbook has been updated to include the latest research and therapeutic approaches as well as developments in clinical practice. This book now contains: Expanded coverage of the aetiology of conditions; Assessment of the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria; Analysis of cross-cultural issues; Case studies that include patient perspectives; A new chapter on somatoform disorders; and, Improved pedagogy such as research boxes and thinking about features that encourage readers to think critically about what they are learning. The book maintains the structure of the first edition with two main sections: the first introduces and critically evaluates the conceptual models of mental health problems and their treatment; the second contains in-depth analysis of a variety of disorders such as schizophrenia, trauma-related conditions and addictions. In the second section, chapters are restructured to give a comprehensive aetiology of the disorder as well as analysis of treatments for the condition. Each disorder is viewed from psychological, social, and biological perspectives and different intervention types are investigated.
Postpsychiatry
- Authors:
- BRACKEN Patrick, THOMAS Philip
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 304p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The book asks, is madness best thought of as a medical condition? Psychiatrists and the drug industry maintain that psychoses are brain disorders amenable to treatment with drugs. There is no convincing evidence that the brain is disordered in psychosis, yet governments across the world are investing huge sums of money on mental health services that take for granted the idea that psychosis is an illness to be treated with medication. Although some people who use mental health services find medication helpful, many do not, and resist the idea that their experiences are symptoms of illnesses like schizophrenia. Consequently they are forced into having treatment against their wishes. The authors examine the conflicting ways in which politicians, academics, and mental health professionals appear to understand madness, and contrast this with voices and experiences that are usually excluded - those of the people who use mental health services. They then examine the power of psychiatry to shape how we understand ourselves and our emotions, before considering some of the basic limitations of psychiatry as science to make madness meaningful. In the final section of the book they draw on evidence from service users and survivors, the humanities and anthropology, to point out a new direction for mental health practice.
Ward watch: Mind's campaign to improve hospital conditions for mental health patients
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report reveals two extremes of hospital conditions: for some patients, the hospital environment has provided the treatment and support needed to help them recover; for others, poor accommodation and security, safety concerns, insufficient staffing levels and intense boredom have exacerbated existing difficulties and created new ones, subjecting patients to an environment that is inhumane where it should be therapeutic.