The World Health Organisation recently confirmed that mental Illness was set to become the biggest threat to human well-being in the twenty first century. Mental illness accounts for more disability adjusted life years lost per year than any other health condition in the UK. No other health condition matches mental ill health in the combined extent of prevalence, persistence and breadth of impact.
Modern Mental Health offers an alternative and thought-provoking perspective to the conventional and orthodox understanding of mental health and how to help those suffering with mental illness. The individual contributors to this book share a passion for needs-informed person-centred care for those people affected by mental ill- health and a deep scepticism about the way help and support is organised and provided to the 1 in 4 people in the population who at some time will suffer mental health problems. The chapters include a diverse and rich mixture of stark personal testimony, reflective narrative, case studies in user-informed care, alternative models of intervention and support, rigorous empirical research and a forensic analysis of mental health law-making. Although the overarching philosophy of this book is critical of contemporary psychiatric care, each chapter offers an individual perspective on an aspect of provision.
This book will appeal to social workers in mental health contexts as well as students on post qualifying courses and the Masters Degree in Social Work. Doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors and nurses will also find much of value.
Innehållsförteckning
Part One – The Human in the System
Chapter 1: A Survivors Story
Chapter 2: Service User Insights Into Recovery In Personality Disorder
Chapter 3: Exploring Shared Decision Making For Psychiatric Medication Management
Chapter 4: The Recovery Concept: the importance of the recovery story
Part Two – The Importance of Context in Psychiatry
Chapter 5: The Part Can Never Be Well, Unless The Whole Is Well
Chapter 6: Being Disturbed: The Impact of Severe Personality Disorder on Professional Carers
Chapter 7: The Psychiatric Stockholm Syndrome: The Emergence of Traumatic Bonding in Mental Health In-Patient Settings
Part Three – Contemporary Developments and Reflections
Chapter 8: Culture and Meaning in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Chapter 9: Racism and Mental Health
Chapter 10: The Mirage of Mental Health Law Reform
Om författaren
Hannah Walker was brought up on the Isle of Wight, where she also went to school. She was Head Girl and Captain of Sports, and won a place at Warwick University to read Philosophy and Logic. Reality intervened and she was commissioned into the RAF as a Personnel Officer. She won the Sash of Merit at Officer Training for being the most outstanding cadet and went on to serve in Germany, Gibraltar and various UK stations. Promoted to Squadron Leader at the age of 29, Hannah ended up at the Ministry of Defence in London, working in the Central Operations Staff. Hannah had the first of many breakdowns in London and was eventually diagnosed as being bipolar. She was unceremoniously chucked out of the RAF, got married and retrained as a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist. She did most of a degree in Applied Psychology and Computing before her head blew up again and she separated from her husband. Undaunted, she went to work in an acute psychiatric ward, where she managed to remain for 6 years, before being chucked out after yet another breakdown. She is the Chair of the Dorset Mental Health Forum, a pan Dorset charity which exists to improve the lives of service users in the county.
Hannah is the co-editor of the book “Our Encounters with Madness”, published by PCCS Books, which is becoming a set text for nursing students. She hopes psychiatrists might read it as well.
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