Description
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation is designed as a clinical handbook for practitioners in the field of mental health. It recognises the wide-ranging impact of mental illness and its ramifications on daily life.
Trade Review"[P]ractical, clearly written, cleanly organised and obviously intended as a practitioner's guide and source book...chapters can be read independently or sequentially redeployed to suit the reader's predilections."
Mental Health Practice“[A] valuable aspect of this book lies in its conceptualization of clients with severe mental illness … an excellent clinical guide to psychosocial rehabilitation.”
PsycCritiques "I recommend buying this book to anyone who is interested in a recovery approach to psychosocial rehabilitation." British Journal of Occupational Therapy
Table of Contents1. Key Concepts and Definitions.
2. Major Mental Illness and its impact.
3. Lived experience perspectives - Helen Glover.
4. The framework for psychosocial rehabilitation: bringing it into focus - Lindsey G. Oades and Frank P. Deane.
5. Building and maintaining a recovery focused therapeutic relationship - Frank P. Deane and Trevor P. Crowe.
6. Individual assessment and the development of a collaborative rehabilitation plan.
7. Integrating psychosocial rehabilitation and pharmacotherapy - Tom Meehan, Shane McCombes and Terry Stedman.
8. Family psychoeducation.
9. Intensive case management in psychosocial rehabilitation.
10. Community participation - Chris Lloyd and Frank P. Deane.
11. Vocational rehabilitation.
12. Mental illness and substance misuse.
13. Early intervention, relapse prevention and promotion of healthy lifestyles.
14. Service evaluation.
15. The well-being and professional development of the psychosocial rehabilitation practitioner
