Good Practice in Adult Mental HealthJacki Pritchard, Tony Ryan This text is a guide to good practice within adult mental health care, providing a comprehensive introduction to mental health and illness. It is designed to aid mental health professionals and workers, agencies, and any individuals coming in to contact with mental illness, in recognising a mental health need or problem and offering appropriate support. |
Contents
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3 The Care Programme Approach | 55 |
Promoting Collaborative Working and Meaningful Support | 72 |
5 Medication Management | 90 |
6 The Role of Primary Care | 108 |
7 Medical Diagnosis of Mental Illness | 127 |
12 Personal Experiences of Mental Health and Illness | 219 |
13 Carer Perpectives | 229 |
14 Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health | 245 |
15 Gender and Mental Health | 262 |
16 Substance Misuse and Mental health | 278 |
The Use of MultiAgency policies and Procedures to Protect Mental Health Service Users from Abuse | 295 |
18 managing Violence | 311 |
Glossary | 328 |
8 Multidisciplinary Teamworking and the Roles of Members | 145 |
9 Supporting Staff | 164 |
The Mental Health Service User Movement in England | 183 |
11 mental Health Advocacy and Empowerment in Focus | 202 |
List of contributors | 335 |
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Page 36 - ... the detention of a minor by lawful order for the purpose of educational supervision or his lawful detention for the purpose of bringing him before the competent legal authority; e) the lawful detention of persons for the prevention of the spreading of infectious diseases, of persons of unsound mind, alcoholics or drug addicts or vagrants...
Page 45 - Anyone who is deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled to take proceedings before a court, in order that that court may decide without delay on the lawfulness of his detention and order his release if the detention is not lawful.
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Page 45 - Everyone who is deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled to take proceedings by which the lawfulness of his detention shall be decided speedily by a court and his release ordered if the detention is not lawful.
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Page 25 - Anthony's (1993) description of recovery as: a deeply personal, unique process of changing one's attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills and/or roles. It is a way of living a satisfying, hopeful and contributing life, even with limitations caused by the illness. Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one's life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness.
Page 25 - Recovery is described as a deeply personal, unique process of changing one's attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills, and/or roles. It is a way of living a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life even with limitations caused by illness. Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one's life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness.
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