Mental Health Assessments

Gwen Howe

Number 2 in the Living with Serious Mental Illness series

Paperback: £16.95 / $26.95

1998, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-458-0, BIC 2: MQCL5 JKSM

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Preface. 1. Mental health assessments: an introduction. 2. Slipping out of the system. 3. A `least restrictive' practice. 4. The role of medication in acute psychosis. 5. Slipping into the wrong system. 6. Carers and a need for caring. 7. A reluctance to use the law? 8. Mental health assessments: summing up. Further reading. Useful addresses. Glossary. Index.

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Author information

• Gwen Howe

Subject areas

• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• mental health,
• mental illness,
• social work

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