Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents a series of cases of psychosocial interventions with schizophrenia and other serious mental health difficulties.
- Co-authored by a range of professionals in different roles, as well as carers and service users.
- Captures the benefits of a true alliance between the service user and their clinical worker.
- Details the skills and knowledge needed for interventions in a range of settings, including outreach work and family work, treatment on acute wards, as well as organisational change.
- Introductions and conclusions to each case examine the implications for practice and policy.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors.
Foreword: Lu Duhig, Laurie Bryant and Professor Antony Sheehan.
Preface: Richard Velleman, Gina Smith, Michael Drage and Eric Davis.
1 Psychosocial Developments: Towards a Model of Recovery: Eric Davis, Richard Velleman, Gina Smith and Michael Drage.
2 Shared Caring for a First Episode of Psychosis: An Opportunity to Promote Hope and Recovery: Mandy Reed and Caroline Stevens.
3 Integrating Family and Individual Approaches with People Who Experience Bipolar Disorder: Annie Higgs and Roger Thompson.
4 Positive Risk-taking within Family Intervention: Gina Smith, Alison Drage, Emily Drage, James Drage and Michael Drage.
5 Assertive Outreach and Family Work: Frank Burbach, John Carter, Jane Carter and Matthew Carter.
6 Relapse Prevention in Bipolar Disorder with Staff Who Are also Service Users: Eric Davis, Guy Undrill and Lauren Samuels.
7 Women’s Experiences of Psychosis: Recognition of Gendered Difference: Vicky MacDougall, Karen Luckett and Megan Jones.
8 Advance Agreements, Advanced Directives and Pre-emptive Care-planning: Steve Brooks, Jo Denney and John Mikeson.
9 Recovery from Voice-hearing through Groupwork: Keith Coupland and Tim Cuss.
10 Recovery through Sports in First-episode Psychosis: Sean Adams, Lydia Bishop and Jane Bellinger.
11 Employment, Mental Health and PSI: Occupation is Everyone’s Job: Sarah-joy Boldison, Rosie Davies, Hilary Hawkes, Christine Pacé and Ruth Sayers.
12 Using Effective Management Strategies to Facilitate the Delivery of PSI: Debbie Furniss and Eric Davis.
13 Carer–Practitioner Collaboration in Research and Evaluation: Willm Mistral, Michael Drage, Gina Smith, Siobhan Floyd and Nicola Cocks.
14 Changing Practice: Gina Smith, Michael Drage, Eric Davis and Richard Velleman.
Author Index.
Subject Index
