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Mental health care provision can be complex and the approach the carer uses can have a detrimental effect on the health of the person being cared for. Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems provides the reader with many examples of thoughts, ideas and perspectives in a user-friendly, easily accessible format. The chapters are divided into discrete sections reflecting contemporary care approaches. Reference to care in a range of primary and secondary care settings is made throughout the book. Each chapter provides the reader with a clear and concise approach to health care, encouraging the reader to understand and delve deeper. Written by contributors who are experienced clinicians and academics with many years of clinical and academic experience in various health care settings, this text is based upon the principles of care, a foundation text that encourages the student to grow and develop.
Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems is a practice-based handbook or manual that has a sound evidence basis, and one that will challenge and encourage the student to develop a questioning approach to care. The text is designed to be used as a reference book by a variety of readers in either the clinical setting, classroom or at home, in statutory or non-statutory surroundings.
Contents
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
Ian Peate and Sonya Chelvanayagam
2 History of Mental Health Care 7
Stephen Cloudsdale
3 Mad, Bad or Just Different 15
Alan Brownbill
4 Partnership Working in Mental Health Care 31
Paul Illingworth
5 Promoting Mental Health 53
Alan Brownbill and Sonya Chelvanayagam
6 Legal Matters 69
Soo Lee
7 Anxiety Disorders 87
Thomas Beary
8 Mood Disorders Including Self-harm and Suicide 103
Stephen Cloudsdale
9 Eating Disorders 117
Sonya Chelvanayagam
10 Dual Diagnosis: Substance Misuse and Mental Health Problems 131
Sue Hahn
11 Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia-type Disorders 145
Yvonne Mitchell
12 Personality Disorder 161
Brian Thomson
13 Dementias 177
Sue Hahn
14 Therapeutic Interventions 195
Soo Lee, Angela Edmonds and Clare Hubbard
Index 217
