Understanding Mental Health Care: Critical Issues in Practice
eBook - ePub

Understanding Mental Health Care: Critical Issues in Practice

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Understanding Mental Health Care: Critical Issues in Practice

About this book

'This book belongs on the bookshelf of everyone with a personal or professional interest in mental health. Roberts addresses the subjects that are troubling professionals across the globe, providing a sound theoretical base on which a professional viewpoint can be formed. Complex concepts are presented in a simple way, enabling readers at all stages to grasp difficult and often radical ideas quickly and easily.' - Tony Barlow, Birmingham City University, UK

This dynamic book provides a critical overview of current issues in mental health practice. It offers concrete guidance on navigating and evaluating different approaches to mental health care, giving crucial space to approaches which put the service user at the heart of care provision and recovery.

Tackling the complex and challenging, Understanding Mental Health:

  • Guides students through the landscape of mental health care through detailed case studies that situate practice and bring theory to life
  • Provides a thorough introduction to critical issues through sign-posted chapter aims, concept summaries and activities

For mental health professionals, students undertaking a professional mental health qualification, and nursing students studying mental health.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. About the Author
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Critical Issues in Mental Health Care
  11. 2 Causes of Mental Distress
  12. 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis
  13. 4 Psychiatric Drugs
  14. 5 Psychological Therapies
  15. 6 Service User/Survivor Involvement
  16. 7 Recovery
  17. Glossary
  18. References
  19. Index