Acute mental health care in the community : intensive home treatment / edited by Neil Brimblecombe.
Contributor(s): Brimblecombe, Neil.
Material type:
BookPublisher: London ; Philadelphia : Whurr, 2001Description: x, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 186156189X; 9781861561893.Subject(s): Community Mental Health Services -- Great Britain | Acute Disease -- therapy -- Great Britain | Crisis Intervention -- methods -- Great Britain | Psychiatric nursing -- Great Britain | Home Care Services -- Great Britain | Health and Wellbeing | Mental Disorders -- therapy -- Great Britain | Social welfare & social services | Treatment Outcome -- Great Britain | Nursing & ancillary services | Mentally ill -- Home care -- Great Britain | Mental health services
| Mental illness -- Treatment -- Great BritainDDC classification: 362.240941 BRI Summary: This text focuses on a key aspect of community mental health care - intensive home treatment (IHT). It examines the issues surrounding the provision of treatment to individuals as an alternative to psychiatric admission.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This innovative text focuses on a key aspect of community mental health care - Intensive Home Treatment (IHT). It examines the issues surrounding the provision of home treatment to individuals as an alternative to psychiatric admission.
Divided into three parts the book discusses current practice in the UK, then describes some of the clinical approaches and interventions used in home treatment and goes on to explore the impact of interagency and interprofessional issues on the day to day working of home treatment services. Neil Brimblecombe has drawn together the work of a wide range of mental health professionals including nurses, social workers and psychiatrists to provide those who work in this progressive field an authoritative and comprehensive text which they will find invaluable as they develop their practice and provision of home treatments.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text focuses on a key aspect of community mental health care - intensive home treatment (IHT). It examines the issues surrounding the provision of treatment to individuals as an alternative to psychiatric admission.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- IHT- an historical account
- IHT services - current position in the UK
- Researching IHT
- Assessment
- Suicide
- Elderly
- IHT and the Mental Health Act
- Stress in IHT
- Users experience
- Interagency issues
- Critical psychiatry
- Developing services
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Neil Brimblecombe is the author of Acute Mental Health Care in the Community: Intensive Home Treatment, published by Wiley.