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Care planning and delivery forms an essential part of everyday practice for all mental health practitioners. 'Care Planning in Mental Health: promoting recovery' outlines essential concepts of care and its delivery, and explores how such practitioners and other health professionals can plan to provide effective care based on up to date methodology and proven techniques. The concept of recovery is examined as an inherent aspect of the care planning process and practical guidance, theoretical background and personal 'real life' context are provided within the overall framework of planning for mental health recovery.

'Care Planning in Mental Health: promoting recovery' begins by addressing the concept of care planning from the ground up beginning with a discussion of care planning itself before moving on to practical issues of application relevant to the contemporary mental health landscape. A crucial backdrop of genuine context is provided in the middle section where personal experiences of care planning are shared allowing the core theme of the book to then be explored - that of promoting recovery. The final chapters draw the key issues together providing practical, up to date and evidence based discussion on how the idea of recovery can best be addressed and achieved through successful assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Contributors (p. x)
• Introduction (p. xvii)
• Section 1 Understanding Care Planning (p. 1)
• 1 The Context and Nature of Care Planning in Mental Health (p. 3)
• Introduction (p. 3)
• Organisation of care (p. 4)
• Community care and care management (p. 10)
• Care management (p. 11)
• Care programme approach and care coordination processes (p. 14)
• Competing dilemmas associated with care-v-control issues (p. 17)
• Conclusion (p. 20)
• 2 The Ethical and Legal Implications of Care Planning in Mental Health (p. 24)
• Introduction (p. 24)
• The context (p. 25)
• How control is achieved (p. 29)
• Conclusion (p. 34)
• 3 Therapeutic Risk and Care Planning in Mental Health (p. 37)
• Introduction (p. 37)
• Risk and litigation (p. 37)
• Clinical negligence (p. 38)
• Risk and regulation (p. 39)
• Inquiries (p. 41)
• Managing therapeutic risk (p. 42)
• The risk management cycle (p. 43)
• Discussion (p. 45)
• Conclusion (p. 46)
• 4 Care Planning across Professional and Organisational Boundaries (p. 48)
• Introduction (p. 48)
• The ten essential shared capabilities (p. 49)
• Implementation of the ESC (p. 51)
• Barriers to partnerships in care (p. 54)
• Overcoming the barriers to MDT working (p. 55)
• Collaboration (p. 55)
• Cooperation (p. 56)
• Communication (p. 58)
• Conclusion (p. 60)
• 5 Safeguarding Children when Care Planning in Mental Health (p. 63)
• Introduction (p. 63)
• The impact of mental health on parenting capacity (p. 63)
• Safeguarding children (p. 67)
• Children acting as carers (p. 69)
• Conclusion (p. 72)
• Section 2 Personal Experiences of Care Planning (p. 75)
• 6 Care Planning and the Carer (p. 77)
• 7 Experiencing the Process (p. 87)
• Stanza 1 The son's tale (p. 87)
• Stanza 2 The mother's tale (p. 89)
• Stanza 3 The CPN's tale (p. 98)
• Section 3 Promoting Recovery (p. 111)
• 8 Recovery as a Framework for Care Planning (p. 113)
• Introduction (p. 113)
• Recovery debated (p. 114)
• Historical context (p. 115)
• Recovery concepts in the literature (p. 117)
• The social construction of recovery (p. 125)
• Models for recovery (p. 126)
• Recovery orientated acute mental health service (p. 129)
• Conclusion (p. 130)
• 9 Engagement within the Care Planning Process (p. 136)
• Introduction (p. 136)
• What is engagement? (p. 137)
• Constructive engagement and care planning (p. 137)
• Informative and restrictive approaches (p. 141)
• Evidence for enablers and barriers to engagement (p. 144)
• Promoting positive risk taking, self-determined WRAP plans and advance agreements (p. 145)
• Working with carers and families (p. 147)
• Cultural determinants (p. 148)
• Measuring engagement (p. 149)
• Conclusion (p. 149)
• 10 Assessment (p. 152)
• Introduction (p. 152)
• The nature of assessment (p. 152)
• Policy guidance (p. 154)
• Organisational issues (p. 155)
• Assessment for nurses and social workers (p. 156)
• Methods of assessment (p. 158)
• Formulation (p. 162)
• Assessing risk (p. 162)
• Models/theories used in assessment (p. 163)
• Engagement (p. 166)
• Assessment (p. 166)
• Formulations (p. 167)
• Current thinking affect and behaviour (p. 168)
• Practical strategies for promoting recovery focused assessment (p. 170)
• Conclusion (p. 172)
• 11 Promoting Inclusivity in Care Planning (p. 177)
• Introduction (p. 177)
• Person centred planning: promoting recovery (p. 178)
• Social exclusion (p. 179)
• Person centred planning: confident and competent practice (p. 182)
• Gender issues (p. 183)
• Employment (p. 184)
• Homelessness (p. 187)
• Care planning, social exclusion and government policy (p. 188)
• The user perspective (p. 189)
• Informal or family carers (p. 190)
• Good practice in inclusive care planning (p. 192)
• Bad practice (p. 195)
• Conclusion (p. 195)
• 12 Physical Health and Serious Mental Illness: Promoting Good Health (p. 199)
• Introduction (p. 199)
• Policy (p. 200)
• What physical health problems do people with SMI experience? (p. 201)
• Complexities to promoting physical health care (p. 205)
• Health behaviours of people with SMI (p. 206)
• Illness related factors (p. 207)
• Health service factors (p. 207)
• Treatment related factors (p. 208)
• Environmental related factors (p. 213)
• Assessment (p. 213)
• Goal setting (p. 214)
• Interventions (p. 215)
• Conclusion (p. 217)
• 13 Integrated Care Pathways for Mental Health (p. 223)
• Introduction (p. 223)
• The history and proliferation of ICPs (p. 223)
• Definitions of integrated care pathways (p. 224)
• The ICP conceptual model (p. 226)
• An ICP framework (p. 226)
• Further definitions (p. 227)
• Contents of ICPs (p. 227)
• Designing ICP documentation (p. 227)
• Differences between ICPs and protocols (p. 228)
• Differences between an ICP and a package of care (p. 228)
• Integrated care pathways in mental health: some examples of the need for development of ICPs (p. 229)
• Determinants of outcome in the pathways through care for children hearing voices (p. 232)
• Pathways into care and satisfaction with primary care for black patients in south London (p. 235)
• Conclusion (p. 238)
• 14 Evaluation (p. 241)
• Introduction (p. 241)
• What is evaluation? (p. 242)
• The process of evaluation (p. 242)
• Practical strategies that facilitate evaluation (p. 244)
• When should evaluation be done? (p. 245)
• Discussion of outcome criteria for evaluation as part of collaborative process with service users (p. 247)
• Negative influences on achieving an effective evaluation process (p. 248)
• Conclusion (p. 250)
• 15 Reflections on the Future (p. 255)
• Index (p. 263)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michael Wren is Senior Lecturer in Social Care at the University of Teesside

Stephan Kirby is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health at the University of Teesside