Gwen Howe

Mental Health Assessments

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written with the help of sufferers and carers to give a consumer's perspective of how the mental health services react when a person becomes mentally ill. The book focuses on the problems that can arise when someone undergoes a formal assessment for compulsory admission to hospital and examines what can go wrong with the assessment process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781853024580
• ISBN-10: 1853024589
• Artikelnr.: 22288234

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 several books, including Working with Schizophrenia and Getting into the System published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Mental health assessments: an introduction. 2. Slipping out of
the system. 3. A `least restrictive' practice. 4. The role of medication in
acute psychosis. 5. Slipping into the wrong system. 6. Carers and a need
for caring. 7. A reluctance to use the law? 8. Mental health assessments:
summing up. Further reading. Useful addresses. Glossary. Index.