Mental Health Social Work Reimagined

Mental Health Social Work Reimagined
Author: Ian Cummins
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Community psychiatry
ISBN: 9781447335641

Taking a critical and radical approach, this text calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing distress at its core. The optimism that underpinned the development of community care policies has dissipated to be replaced by a form of bleak managerialism. Neoliberalism has added stress to services already under great pressure and created a danger that we could revert to institutional forms of care. This much-needed work argues that the original progressive values of community care policies need to be rediscovered, updated and reinvigorated to provide a basis for a mental health social work that returns to fundamental notions of dignity and citizenship.

Mental health social work re-imagined

Mental health social work re-imagined
Author: Cummins, Ian
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447335597

Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing distress at its core. The optimism that underpinned the development of community care policies has dissipated to be replaced by a form of bleak managerialism. Neoliberalism has added stress to services already under great pressure and created a danger that we could revert to institutional forms of care. This much-needed book argues that the original progressive values of community care policies need to be rediscovered, updated and reinvigorated to provide a basis for a mental health social work that returns to fundamental notions of dignity and citizenship.

Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Mental Health Social Work

Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Mental Health Social Work
Author: Martin Webber
Publisher: Learning Matters
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2011-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857254278

Mental health social workers work within multidisciplinary teams, often based in health settings. The variety of services they work within are shaped by mental health policy that is increasingly being influenced by research evidence of ′what works′. This fully-revised second edition has a new chapter on systematic reviews and greater coverage of the impact of the 2007 amendment to Mental Health Act 1983 on mental health practitioners and services.

Madness Reimagined: Envisioning a Better System of Mental Health in America

Madness Reimagined: Envisioning a Better System of Mental Health in America
Author: Leonard A. Steverson
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2019-07-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1622736826

'Madness Reimagined: Envisioning a Better System of Mental Health in America' provides a comprehensive analysis of the current mental health system in the United States. Presented from a sociological rather than a psychological perspective, this book seeks to provide readers with an extensive but accessible look at its history, the current mental health treatment modalities, the various mental health practitioners, the different conditions known as mental health disorders, as well as strategies for improving the system. Trained both in clinical and applied therapy and sociology, the author aims to provide a balance to the work that other books on mental health often lack. As a result, this book proposes a dual approach to the study of mental health. Dr. Steverson acknowledges that while disorders and treatment modalities require a micro-level (intrapsychic) approach, the overall analysis of the mental health system demands a macro-level (sociological) approach. Due to the recent changes in the American healthcare system and the concerns this has raised, this book is a necessary and important contribution to its field. It also reflects a growing desire from the public to better understand this subject as mental health issues continue to gain visibility in the public eye. Free of psychological jargon and in an accessible format, this book will not only appeal to academics and students, but also to mental health consumers, their families, and people who are interested in advocacy.

Mental Health in Social Work

Mental Health in Social Work
Author: Jacqueline Corcoran
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780205223497

Normal 0 false false false Consistent with social work's concern with strengths and the environmental context for human behavior, Mental Health in Social Work will cover strengths-based assessment and the biopsychosocial risk and resilience perspective.

Mental Health Work In The Community

Mental Health Work In The Community
Author: Michael Sheppard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004-01-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1135385785

A presentation of a comparative analysis of the work of mental health social workers and community psychiatric nurses, an issue of importance because of "community care" and also important as much of their work territory overlaps. The findings are more favourable to social workers.

Mental health social work re-imagined

Mental health social work re-imagined
Author: Cummins, Ian
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447335619

Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing distress at its core. The optimism that underpinned the development of community care policies has dissipated to be replaced by a form of bleak managerialism. Neoliberalism has added stress to services already under great pressure and created a danger that we could revert to institutional forms of care. This much-needed book argues that the original progressive values of community care policies need to be rediscovered, updated and reinvigorated to provide a basis for a mental health social work that returns to fundamental notions of dignity and citizenship.