Assertive Outreach in Mental Health

Assertive Outreach in Mental Health
Author: Tom Burns
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2002
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780198516156

Assertive Outreach is the treatment of choice for the severely mentally ill in the community. It involves taking services to the patients rather than requiring them to attend hospitals and clinics. The model is one of a high staff-to-patient ratio offering comprehensive health and socialcare. Assertive Outreach is a targeted and refined application of the existing practice of community mental health teams - an evolution of community policy rather than a revolutionary change. Research evidence and outcome data suggests it results in reduced hospitalizations, promotes effectiveengagement with difficult patients and improves patient wellbeing. As a policy, it has been implemented successfully in Australia, the USA and Europe, and it is now being adopted nationally in the UK. This book will equip all members of the multidisplinary Assertive Outreach team with a clear understanding of the essential processes and interventions involved. Tom Burns and Mike Firn are pioneers in this field and have been running an Assertive Outreach team for seven years. They have been awarded Beacon status by the UK Department of Health to reflect their excellence, and are heavily involved in teaching others setting out on the same path.

Reaching Out

Reaching Out
Author: Caroline Cupitt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2009-09-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135258457

Assertive outreach is a means of helping people with serious and persistent mental health difficulties who have not engaged with conventional mental health services. Reaching Out examines the application of psychological approaches in assertive outreach – a process which involves forming new relationships and offering hope to people who have been alienated from traditional methods. Reaching Out begins with a discussion of topics including: engagement the team approach assessments team case formulation managing stress and burnout for staff. The second half of the book focuses on the task of delivering psychological therapies and considers a range of models including psychodynamic therapy, family therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and community approaches. Reaching Out: The Psychology of Assertive Outreach demonstrates that the relationship between staff and service users is essential to the process of recovery and personal growth. The approach will apply not only to assertive outreach teams, but also to clinical psychologists, counsellors and other mental health professionals who are interested in psychological approaches to outreach work.

Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare

Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare
Author: Caroline Williams
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1444393308

Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention. It provides a synthesis of expert experience in the field as well as experiences of grass roots team practitioners. This book makes a valuable contribution to the field by addressing in depth a wide range of topics critical to the delivery of assertive outreach services and providing practitioners with a manual into which they can feed lessons learned from other teams for continuous service improvement. This book is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in assertive outreach and community treatment approaches in mental health. Special features: Provides a contemporary analysis of current service developments in the area Written by experts in the field Covers cross-cutting issues relevant to all areas of community mental health care Includes multiple perspectives: service user, researcher, service manager, commissioner, clinician and carer Covers both service delivery and therapeutic interventions Explores how the assertive outreach model is applied in the UK and Europe

Assertive Outreach

Assertive Outreach
Author: Peter Ryan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2004
Genre: Chronically ill
ISBN: 9781280167652

This text provides an evidence-based account of assertive outreach from a strengths perspective. This approach emphasises developing a collaborative trusting working relationship between service users and practitioners.

Outreach in Community Mental Health Care

Outreach in Community Mental Health Care
Author: Tom Burns
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2017
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 019875423X

Outreach in the community is the treatment of choice for the severely mentally ill in the community. It involves taking services directly to patients rather than requiring them to attend clinics and hospitals. This approach is a significant addition to routine mental health care practice and addresses the needs of marginalized communities and those that struggle to attend appointments. Outreach in Community Mental Health Care: A Manual for Practitioners has been fully updated since the last edition, providing readers with an in-depth, practical guide to mental health care in the community setting today. It addresses the significant changes in mental health service organizations over the years, including the various new teams devised and the importance of central planning and targets. The authors Tom Burns and Mike Firn are pioneers in this field of research and are active in community outreach as practitioners, researchers, and supervisors. In 29 chapters they cover key discussions in conceptual issues, health and social care practice, management and development, which provides readers with an insight into the reality of community outreach work.

Camberwell Assessment of Need: Forensic Version

Camberwell Assessment of Need: Forensic Version
Author: Stuart Thomas
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1009028448

The Camberwell Assessment of Need Forensic Version (CANFOR) is a tool for assessing the needs of people with mental health problems who are in contact with forensic services. It is based on the CAN, a widely used needs assessment for people with severe mental health problems. Individual needs are assessed in 25 areas of life, spanning health, social, clinical and functional domains. Comprehensive versions are available for research (CANFOR-R) and clinical use (CANFOR-C), as well as a short summary version (CANFOR-S) suitable for both research and clinical use. CANFOR was rigorously developed by a multidisciplinary team at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and is suitable for use in all forensic mental health and prison settings. This second edition provides an update of the CANFOR tools and their application in clinical and research settings. The assessment forms are freely available to download from the CAN website (researchintorecovery.com/can) and cambridge.org.

Learning About Mental Health Practice

Learning About Mental Health Practice
Author: Theo Stickley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2008-04-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 047051227X

This textbook outlines the key areas of mental health practice for those in the early stages of their training, who may not necessarily come from psychology backgrounds. Accompanies the lecturer’s book ‘Teaching Mental Health’ Focuses on the 'Ten Essential Shared Capabilities' that have been developed by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health In partnership with the BABCP, Lord Layard is recommending that more mental health graduates be trained in order to meet demand for mental health services in the UK

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Mental Health Care

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Mental Health Care
Author: Alec Grant
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2004-08-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780761941422

Written to meet the needs of those acquiring knowledge and skills in the area of cognitive behavioural therapy, this book outlines the core principles involved in building the therapeautic alliance, case formulation, assessment, and interventions.

Community Mental Health Teams

Community Mental Health Teams
Author: Tom Burns
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2004-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0198529996

Provides practical advice for those working within community mental health teams, addressing the needs of individual specialists and providing clinical advice based on proven methods.

Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health

Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health
Author: Graham Thornicroft
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2011-08-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 019956549X

Community mental health care has evolved as a discipline over the past 50 years, and within the past 20 years, there have been major developments across the world. The Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health is the most comprehensive and authoritative review published in the field, written by an international and interdisciplinary team.