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Working in Mental Health

Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

Working in Mental Health
  • Edited by Peter Phillips, Tom Sandford and Claire Johnston.

Published March 2012

A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening – both for service users, and for professional mental healthcare workers. A more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered by an increasing…
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Dangerous People

Policy, Prediction, and Practice

Dangerous People
  • Edited by Bernadette McSherry, and Patrick Keyzer.

Published July 2011

Experienced legal academics and mental health professionals explore the current approaches to “dangerousness” and preventive detention. The defining characteristics of those deemed dangerous by society vary according to culture, place, and time, and the contributors to this text have gathered to…
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Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis

The Promise of Integrated Care and Diagnostic Reform

Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis
  • Edited by Nicholas A. Cummings, and William T. O'Donohue.

Published April 2011

Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis is a necessary book, edited and contributed to by a great variety of authors from academia, government, and industry. The book takes a bold look at what reforms are needed in healthcare and provides specific recommendations. Some of the serious…
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Off the Couch

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications

Off the Couch
  • Edited by Alessandra Lemma, and Matthew Patrick.

Published March 2010

The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, in particular to the management and treatment of more disturbed and difficult to…
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Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability

Strategies and Solutions

Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability
  • Edited by Nick Bouras, and Geraldine Holt.

Published January 2010

This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have been applied to clinical practice. Nick Bouras and Geraldine Holt both have extensive experience in…
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Working Together to Reduce Harmful Drinking

Working Together to Reduce Harmful Drinking
  • Edited by Marcus Grant, and Mark Leverton.

Published October 2009

This book is intended to contribute to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It explores areas where alcohol producers’ technical competence can and does make a positive contribution to reducing harmful drinking and where industry…
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Responding to Drug Misuse

Research and Policy Priorities in Health and Social Care

Responding to Drug Misuse
  • Edited by Susanne MacGregor.

Published September 2009

Responding to Drug Misuse provides a unique insight into the current shape of the drugs treatment system in England. Reporting findings from research linked to the government's ten year drugs strategy Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain, the book places these in the context of policy, practice…
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Reaching Out

The Psychology of Assertive Outreach

Reaching Out
  • Edited by Caroline Cupitt.

Published August 2009

Assertive outreach is a means of helping people with serious and persistent mental health difficulties who have not engaged with conventional mental health services. Reaching Out examines the application of psychological approaches in assertive outreach – a process which involves forming new…
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Staff Support Groups in the Helping Professions

Principles, Practice and Pitfalls

Staff Support Groups in the Helping Professions
  • Edited by Phil Hartley, and David Kennard.

Published April 2009

Staff burnout and work-related stress in mental health professionals cost the National Health Service not only millions of pounds each year, but also impact upon the welfare of those being cared for. Staff Support Groups in the Helping Professions takes the lead from recent Department of Health…
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Sociology and Health

An Introduction

Sociology and Health
  • By Peter Morrall, and Peter Morrall.

Published February 2009

This lively, introductory text provides students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues. Written for anyone who is interested in health and disease in contemporary global society, this book engages the reader to act upon their occupational and…
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