Managing mental health care in the community : chaos and containment / edited by Angela Foster and Vega Zagier Roberts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foster, Angela, 1948-

Roberts, Vega Zagier, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community mental health services--Administration.

Community mental health services.

Mental health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book aims to encourage reflective practice amongst staff, managers and policy-makers working in the community. Contributors challenge common assumptions and present some tried and tested interventions to improve the quality of care.

Contents:

Front Cover

Managing Mental Health in the Community

Copyright Page

Contents

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction to the theoretical basis of this book: Angela Foster and Vega Zagier Roberts

Part I: The move into the community

1. Creatures of each other: some historical considerations of responsibility and care, and some present: R.D. Hinshelwood

2. 'Not in my backyard': the psychosocial reality of community care: Angela Foster and Vega Zagier Roberts

3. When dreams become nightmares: Vega Zagier Roberts

4. Is authority a dirty word?: Changing attitudes to care and control: Vega Zagier Roberts

5. Psychotic processes and community care: the difficulty in finding the third position: Angela Foster

Part II: Managing anxiety in the system

6. The psychic organization of community care: Jack Nathan

7. Thinking about risk: Angela Foster

8. The pain of managing: some dynamics of the purchaser/provider split: Tony McCaffrey

9. Carers, clients and workers: on the relationship between policy and collusion: Simon Biggs

10. The hospital in the community: Vega Zagier Roberts

Part III: Learning from the experience of face-to-face work

11. Integration or fragmentation: the challenge facing community mental health teams: Angela Foster

12. Beyond keyworking: Trinidad Navarro

13. Help to do the ordinary: the place of counselling in community care: Angela Foster

14. Community, care and quality: a lesson from group psychotherapy: Naomi Landau and Michael Wallbank

Part IV: Initiatives for empowerment

15. A potential for partnership?: Consulting with users of mental health services: Helen Morgan

16. Learning to keep one's head: analysis of a training workshop: Angela Foster and Lorenzo Grespi.

17. Space to play: Vega Zagier Roberts

18. From understanding to action: Angela Foster and Vega Zagier Roberts

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610023721

1-280-02372-4

0-203-36057-5

9780203360576

OCLC:

53990097