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Community mental health care : a practical guide to outdoor psychiatry

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Harlow : Churchill Livingstone, 2008Description: viii, 306pISBN:
  • 9780443102547
Other title:
  • Community mental healthcare
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WM 43.
Contents:
Ch. 1. Why have care in the community? (Or how did we get into this in the first place?) -- Ch. 2. Getting into treatment -- Ch. 3. What's the matter? (Or an alternative way of looking at psychiatric diagnosis) -- Ch. 4. Treatment -- Ch. 5. Going home -- Ch. 6. Staying home, staying alive -- Ch. 7. Staying alive -- you, the care worker -- Ch. 8. Danger zones -- risk management -- what, why and how -- Ch. 9. The rules of the game (Or the Mental Health Act and all that) -- Ch. 10. Drugs and booze (Or the addiction/dependence problem) -- Ch. 11. The challenges of the future.
Summary: 'Commuinty Mental Health Care' provides a comprehensive outline of the essentials of work in community mental health care. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it provides an indispensable blueprint for the profession in the 21st century.
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Item type Home library Class number Status Date due Barcode
Book Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves WM 30 SAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available HOM2326
Book Sally Howell Library (Epsom) Shelves WM 30 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 010387
Book South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves WM 43 SAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 024934

Ch. 1. Why have care in the community? (Or how did we get into this in the first place?) -- Ch. 2. Getting into treatment -- Ch. 3. What's the matter? (Or an alternative way of looking at psychiatric diagnosis) -- Ch. 4. Treatment -- Ch. 5. Going home -- Ch. 6. Staying home, staying alive -- Ch. 7. Staying alive -- you, the care worker -- Ch. 8. Danger zones -- risk management -- what, why and how -- Ch. 9. The rules of the game (Or the Mental Health Act and all that) -- Ch. 10. Drugs and booze (Or the addiction/dependence problem) -- Ch. 11. The challenges of the future.

'Commuinty Mental Health Care' provides a comprehensive outline of the essentials of work in community mental health care. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it provides an indispensable blueprint for the profession in the 21st century.

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