Gwen Howe

Getting Into the System

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781853024573
• ISBN-10: 1853024570
• Artikelnr.: 21784406

Autorenporträt

After 15 years in psychiatric social work, including experience of working with the mental health law, Gwen Howe went on in 1989 to pioneer a centre for individuals with serious mental illness which she ran until 1994. She has written five books, including Working with Schizophrenia, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishing.

Inhaltsangabe

Getting into the system: an introduction. 2. Having a diagnosis and not
being told. 3. The pain of not knowing what is wrong. 4. Teetering on the
edge of the system. 5. Juvenile sufferers: a special case. 6. In and out of
the system: another young sufferer. 7. Into the system, yet falling by the
wayside. 8. Getting appropriate treatment and care: a lottery? 9. Summing
up. Further reading. Useful addresses. Index.