Psychosocial interventions for people with schizophrenia : a practical guide for mental health workers / edited by Neil Harris, Steve Williams, and Tim Bradshaw.
Contributor(s): Harris, Neil | Williams, Steve
| Bradshaw, Tim.
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BookPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002Description: xiv, 276 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0333777395 (pbk.); 9780333777398.Subject(s): Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia -- Treatment -- Great Britain | Schizophrenics -- Services for -- Great Britain | Health and Wellbeing | Mental health services | Nursing | Therapy & therapeutics | Psychiatric nursingDDC classification: 362.26 PSY Summary: This text provides an overview and practical guidelines for helping people with schizophrenia using psycho-social interventions.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Mental health care for people experiencing schizophrenia has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. This book draws on the expertise of a group of experienced clinical practitioners to provide an up-to-date understanding of this condition, and a practical guide to implementing evidence-based psychosocial interventions for people with schizophrenia. Written in a clear and accessible format, this book
-covers the historical, social and political perspectives which give meaning to the current position of mental health care
-includes up-to-date interventions framed within the context of peoples lives
-describes how these interventions translate into specialist areas of practice
Using a variety of clinical examples, this text provides a clear overview of schizophrenia, and serves as a comprehensive, practical guide to the understanding, treatment and management of this mental condition.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text provides an overview and practical guidelines for helping people with schizophrenia using psycho-social interventions.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
NEIL HARRIS has worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist within Community Mental Health Teams, dedicated to people with serious mental illness since 1985.
STEVE WILLIAMS co-ordinates and leads the family intervention programme within the early psychosis service at Salford and Trafford.
TIM BRADSHAW currently works for COPE (Collaboration on Psychosocial Education) at the University of Manchester, where he is a programme director for the BSc (Hons) Psychosocial Interventions Course.
NEIL HARRIS has worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist within Community Mental Health Teams, dedicated to people with serious mental illness since 1985.
STEVE WILLIAMS co-ordinates and leads the family intervention programme within the early psychosis service at Salford and Trafford.
TIM BRADSHAW currently works for COPE (Collaboration on Psychosocial Education) at the University of Manchester, where he is a programme director for the BSc (Hons) Psychosocial Interventions Course.