Colin Pritchard

Mental Health Social Work

Evidence-Based Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

In Mental Health Social Work, Colin Pritchard draws on his many years of experience in research, teaching and practice in order to explore key issues for social workers who want to work in the mental health field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780415319010
• ISBN-10: 0415319013
• Artikelnr.: 22030149

Autorenporträt

Colin Pritchard is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southampton and Research Professor in Psychiatric Social Work at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, University of Bournemouth. He is an academic veteran of the social care field who has maintained a mental health practice while being an active and sometimes controversial interdisciplinary researcher.
School of Medicine, Southampton, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: A Psychiatric Perspective 1. In the Beginning: Cultural History and
Poetry of Madness 2. What Does Mental Health / Disorder Mean? 3. Defining
Mental Disorder: A Psychiatric Framework 4. Defining Mental Disorder: A
Framework for the Schizophrenias 5. The 'Minor' Mental Disorders Part 2:
Bio-psychological Perspective 6. Critique of Unidimensional Medicalisation
of Mental Disorder 7. Other Problems of Psychiatry 8. Mental Health Social
Work with People with Mood Disorders 9. Mental Health Social Work with
People with Schizophrenia Part 3: The Emergency Perspectives 10. Mental
Health Social Work with 'Suicidal' People 11. Personality Disorders and the
Psychiatric-Child Protection Interface 12. Statutory Mental Health Social
Work: Care and Control Dilemmas and Role of the Approved Social Worker 13.
The Accommodation Dimension: Housing and Mental Disorder 14. The Vortex of
Mental Disorder: The Client Speaks