Dual Diagnosis

Ed. by Rassool, G. Hussein

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dual diagnosis is the concurrent existence of substance misuse and psychiatric disorders in an individual. There has been an increase in the number of people being dual diagnosed and this impacts psychiatry services in primary care and general hospital settings. This book will provide practitioners with a comprehensive text on the contemporary issues of working with dual diagnosis patients from both clinical and theoretical perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780632056217
• ISBN-10: 0632056215
• Artikelnr.: 13637504

Autorenporträt

G. Hussein Rassool is Professor of Psychology and Islamic Psychology, Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Head of the Department of Psychology, Islamic Online University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Dual diagnosis: fact or fiction?
Substance use and misuse: concepts and theories
Problems and issues of conceptualisation: Psychiatric disorders and substance misuse: psychopathology
European dimension of dual diagnosis
Misperceiving complex behaviour: a psychological research model
. Part II: The challenge of shared care
A synthesis of addiction and mental health nursing: a community approach
Enhancing the social service response
Treatment strategies and interventions
Nursing interventions in the care of dually diagnosed clients
Brief strategies therapy: working with the patient's motivation for change
Assessing the health and social needs to develop services: a public health perspective
Development of a community based model of service provision
A model of therapeutic interventions
Dual or separate services
Professional education in addiction and mental health issues: a case for less diagnosis and more action?
Index.

Rezensionen

"An invaluable resource for all healthcare professionals who may come into contact with clients with complex needs. I will certainly keep it on my bookshelf for reference."

Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal (hcpj)

"this book gloriously achieves its goal ... a valuable addition to our understanding of the debates, research, theory and best practice around dual diagnosis."

Point

"This book is an especially useful primer and resource for all nursing and healthcare specialties, but is an essential text for psychiatric nursing students and practitioners."

"Few books are available on this topic and none have represented the entire clinical issue as well."

Doody s Rating

"This book gloriously achieves its goal...a valuable addition to our understanding of the debates, research, theory and best practice around dual diagnosis."

Psychminded.co.uk