The move towards community-centred mental health care has attracted much publicity, and forced health care professionals to assume a range of new roles and responsibilities. Collaborative Community Mental Health Care identifies these challenges, and promotes a multiprofessional team approach to dealing with them. The topics covered include financial aspects, day care rehabilitation, psychiatric emergencies, intervention, support of team members and the responsibility of the voluntary sector. This text will be of particular use to community health professionals, social workers, and students following nursing degree programmes and the diploma level Mental Health Branch.
Collaborative Community Mental Health Care
Summary
Mental health professionals have been forced to assume a range of new roles and responsibilities in the move towards community-centred mental health care. This book identifies these challenges, and promotes a multi-professional team approach to resolving them.
Collaborative Community Mental Health Care Summary
Table of Contents
Introduction
Teamwork among professionals involved with disturbed families
Integrating hospital and community services
Policy and finance for community care: the new mixed economy
Primary health care - roles and relationships
Day care and rehabilitation services
Community care, community compulsion and the law
The role of the voluntary sector
Managing the psychiatric emergency in the community
Interventions with long term clients
Coping with drug and alcohol misuse
Shifting into community focus: a pastoral perspective
Interventions with families: dealing with psychosis
Liaison psychiatry and primary health care settings
Long term medication and the responsibilities of the team
Daily living skills for clients in the community
Support for health and social care workers in multi-disciplinary teams: using community psychiatric nurses as an example
Principles of evaluation
Evaluating community services
Multi-disciplinary care in the community for clients with mental health problems: guidelines for the future
Index
Teamwork among professionals involved with disturbed families
Integrating hospital and community services
Policy and finance for community care: the new mixed economy
Primary health care - roles and relationships
Day care and rehabilitation services
Community care, community compulsion and the law
The role of the voluntary sector
Managing the psychiatric emergency in the community
Interventions with long term clients
Coping with drug and alcohol misuse
Shifting into community focus: a pastoral perspective
Interventions with families: dealing with psychosis
Liaison psychiatry and primary health care settings
Long term medication and the responsibilities of the team
Daily living skills for clients in the community
Support for health and social care workers in multi-disciplinary teams: using community psychiatric nurses as an example
Principles of evaluation
Evaluating community services
Multi-disciplinary care in the community for clients with mental health problems: guidelines for the future
Index
Additional information
GOR004391480
9780340542415
0340542411
Collaborative Community Mental Health Care by
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1996-02-02
384
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