Theo Stickley & Thurstine Bassett 
Learning About Mental Health Practice [PDF ebook] 

About the editors.
Contributors.
Preface.
Acknowledgement.
Introduction (Theo Stickley and Thurstine Basset).
Part I: Foundations for Mental Health Practice – The Ten
Essential Shared Capabilities.
1. The ten essential shared capabilities: their background,
development and implementation (Roslyn Hope).
2. The ten essential shared capabilities in practice ( Ian
Mc Gonagle, Ian Baguley, Sara Owen and Sarah Lewis).
3. Working in partnership (Anne Beales and Gary Platz).
4. Respecting diversity through acknowledging, valuing and using
diversity and challenging inequalities (AVUDCI) (Premila
Trivedi).
5. Practising ethically: values-based practice and ethics –
working together to support person-centred and multidisciplinary
mental health care (Bill Fulford and Kim Woodbridge).
6. Challenging inequality (David Pilgrim).
7. Promoting recovery (Daniel B. Fisher).
8. Identifying People’s needs and strengths (Lesley Warner).
9. Providing service user centred care (Laura Lea).
10. Making a difference (Norman Young, Madeline O’Carroll and
Lorraine Rayner).
11. Positive Risk taking; A Framework for Practice (Anne Felton
and Gemma Stacey).
12. Personal Development and Learning (Sharon Lee Cuthbert and
Thurstine Basset).
Part II: Issues For Mental Health Practice.
13. Social perspectives on mental distress (Jerry Tew).
14. Socially inclusive practice (Peter Bates and Joanne
Seddon).
15. Equality and rights: Overcoming social exclusion and
discrimination (Liz Sayce).
16. Service user involvement (Peter Campbell).
17. Connecting the parts to the whole: Achieving effective
teamwork in complex systems (Steve Onyett).
18. Problems associated with the use of the concept ‘mental
illness’ (Anne Cooke).
19. Drugs, alcohol and mental health (Tabitha Lewis and Alison
Cameron).
20. Gender inequality and the mental health of women and men
(Jennie Williams and Joe Miller).
21. The trauma model of psychosis (Paul Hammersley, Peter
Bullimore, Magdalen Fiddler and John Read).
Part III: Approaches for Mental Health Practice.
22. Carers’ experiences of mental health services and views abut
assessments: Lessons from the Partnership in Carer Assessments
Project (PICAP) (Julie Repper, Gordon Grant, Mike Nolan and Pam
Enderby).
23. Therapeutic Relationships (Theo Stickley and Dawn
Freshwater).
24. Psychological approaches to mental health (Rufus May, Anne
Cooke and Anthony Cotton).
25. Employment: What you should know and what you should do (Bob
Grove).
26. Treating creatively: the challenge of treating the creative
mind (Peter Amsel).
27. Social inclusion and psychosocial interventions: Clash,
Compromise or Coherence (Peter Bates and Julie Cullen).
28. Spirituality and mental health (Peter Gilbert).
29. Holistic approaches in mental health (Jan Wallcraft).
30. The capable practitioner of the future (Theo Stickley and
Thurstine Basset).
Index.

Theo Stickley trained in counselling and mental health
nursing, and practised in both professions for many years. He now
teaches mental health at the University of Nottingham and has
published widely in the nursing and mental health press. The focus
of his research is mental health and the arts, and he has led on a
number of research projects in collaboration with people who use
mental health services. Theo is a keen gardener, motorcyclist and
artist (but has not yet found a way to combine all three
simultaneously).
Thurstine Basset trained as social worker and worked as a
community worker and social work practitioner, mostly in the mental
health field. he is now an independent training and development
consultant and runs his own company, which is based in Brighton. He
works for national voluntary agencies, such as Mind, together and
the Mental Health Foundation. With the Richmond Fellowship, he is
the joint course leader for its Diploma in Community Mental Health,
which is accredited by Middlesex University. He is a Visiting
Fellow at the University of Brighton. He has written mental health
learning materials, many of which are published by Pavilion
Publishing, with which he works in an advisory role. He likes to
walk and watch cricket.