Mental health social work : evidence-based practice / Colin Pritchard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pritchard, Colin, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric social work.

Evidence-based psychiatry.

Social Work, Psychiatric.

Evidence-Based Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

Social Work, Psychiatric.

Evidence-Based Medicine.

Physical Description:

xiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Mental health social work can be one of the most rewarding and one of the most frustrating areas of social work practice. Mental health is a key policy arena in which the involvement of service users has been particularly successful, and in which there are many new and controversial initiatives. Social workers must not only have a good knowledge of interventions and their evidence bases, from pharmacology to psychotherapy, but also be able to work sensitively and effectively with both clients and carers in a rapidly changing context.

In Mental Health Social Work, Colin Pritchard draws on his many years of experience in research, teaching and practice to explore key issues for social workers who want to work in the mental health field. Topics covered include: the multiple factors affecting mental health; the bio-psychosocial model of practice; key areas including depression, suicide, schizophrenia and personality disorder; the mental health-child protection interface; residential work; treatment modalities.

This important book will be invaluable reading for undergraduate social work students and for practising social workers.

Contents:

Pt. 1. A psychiatric perspective

In the beginning : cultural history and poetry of madness

What does mental health/disorder mean?

Defining mental disorder : a psychiatric framework

Defining mental disorder : a framework for the schizophrenias

The 'minor' mental disorders

Pt. 2. A bio-psycho-social perspective

Critique of unidimensional medicalisation of mental disorder

Other problems of psychiatry

Mental health social work with people with mood disorders

Mental health social work with people with schizophrenia

Pt. 3.The emergency perspective

Mental health social work with 'suicidal' people

Personality disorders and the psychiatric-child protection interface

Statutory mental health social work: care and control dilemmas and role of the approved social worker

The accommodation dimension : housing and mental disorder

The vortex of mental disorder : the client speaks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-301) and index.

ISBN:

0415319021

0415319013

OCLC:

61499921

Publisher Number:

9780415319027 (pbk.)

9780415319010 (hbk.)