Living with Serious Mental Illness
The Living with Serious Mental Illness series is concerned with the consumer’s experience of different aspects of the mental health services, and provides new insight into the needs of sufferers and their families and friends. The author has published extensively on serious mental illness, and is writing this series with, and on behalf of, an Essex-based group of survivors and carers. Each volume contains analysis and discussion of individual cases, and the clients' voices on the issues that those who have to cope with a serious mental illness want service providers to understand and appreciate. At a time when there has been considerable emphasis placed on listening to what survivors and carers have to say, this series offers a unique training opportunity for those working with this type of illness.
Mental Health Assessments
Written with the help of sufferers and carers to give an accurate `consumer's perspective' of how the mental health services react when a person becomes mentally ill, Mental Health Assessments focuses on the problems that can arise when someone undergoes a formal assessment for compulsory... more »
1998, Paperback: £19.99/ $32.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-458-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp
Subject: Health, Social Work and Social Care
Keywords: mental health, mental illness, social work
Getting Into the System
Living with Serious Mental Illness
`[the book addresses] through the use of real case studies, the barriers that can be encountered by people suffering mental distress and their relatives in getting access to appropriate care and treatment. The case studies come from the experience of the group members and are subject to group... more »
1997, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-457-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp
Subject: Health, Social Work and Social Care
Keyword: mental health
