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Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare


Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare

Current Perspectives
1. Aufl.

von: Caroline Williams, Mike Firn, Simon Wharne, Rob MacPherson

47,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 31.01.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9781444393293
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 272

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<p><i>Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives</i> explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention. It provides a synthesis of expert experience in the field as well as experiences of grass roots team practitioners.<br /><br />This book makes a valuable contribution to the field by addressing in depth a wide range of topics critical to the delivery of assertive outreach services and providing practitioners with a manual into which they can feed lessons learned from other teams for continuous service improvement. This book is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in assertive outreach and community treatment approaches in mental health.</p> <p><b>Special features:</b></p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Provides a contemporary analysis of current service developments in the area</li> <li>Written by experts in the field</li> <li>Covers cross-cutting issues relevant to all areas of community mental health care</li> <li>Includes multiple perspectives: service user, researcher, service manager, commissioner, clinician and carer</li> <li>Covers both service delivery and therapeutic interventions</li> <li>Explores how the assertive outreach model is applied in the UK and Europe</li> </ul>
Contributors. <p>Foreword (<i>Kim T. Mueser, PhD</i>).</p> <p>Editors' preface (<i>Caroline Williams, Mike Firn, Simon Wharne and Rob Macpherson</i>).</p> <p>1 What does research tell us about assertive community treatment? (<i>Andrew Molodynski and Tom Burns</i>).</p> <p>2 Multi-professional working in assertive outreach teams (<i>Hannah Steer and Steve Onyett</i>).</p> <p>3 Fidelity and flexibility (<i>Caroline Williams, Rob Macpherson and Mike Firn</i>).</p> <p>4 Cognitive behaviour therapy for assertive outreach service users (<i>Robert Griffiths, Caroline Williams and Neil Harris</i>).</p> <p>5 Dual diagnosis: putting policy into practice (<i>Rory Allott, Ian Wilson and Mike Firn</i>).</p> <p>6 Use of medication in assertive outreach (<i>Rob Macpherson and Tom Edwards</i>).</p> <p>7 Relatives', friends’ and carers' experiences: involvement and support (<i>Simon Wharne, Sara Meddings, Tizzie Coleman and Jo Coldwell</i>).</p> <p>8 Service user experience: engagement and recovery (<i>Simon Wharne and Kamal Spilsted</i>).</p> <p>9 Assertive outreach: stigmatising treatment or social inclusion? (<i>Simon Wharne</i>).</p> <p>10 Meeting the black and ethnic minority agenda (<i>Simon Wharne and Neil Sanyal</i>).</p> <p>11 Diversity and assertive outreach (<i>Simon Wharne and Caroline Williams</i>).</p> <p>12 Personal autonomy, leverage and coercion (<i>Mike Firn and Andrew Molodynski</i>).</p> <p>13 Targets, outcomes and service evaluation (<i>Mike Firn</i>).</p> <p>14 Funky mental health (<i>Steve Morgan and Sue Jugon</i>).</p> <p>Index.</p>
<p>“In addition to providing information for individuals providing assertive outreach services or interested in the nature of these services, how these services are delivered, and their outcomes, this book also looks at a variety of ways to conceptualize the goals of these services and the perspectives of those who receive them.”  (<i>Doody’s</i>, 23 March 2012)</p> <p> </p>
<b>Caroline Williams</b> is Company Director of User Friendly Psychiatry Ltd and a Programme Director and Clinical Tutor at Lancaster University. She was previously Assertive Outreach Manager at Five Borough Partnership NHS Trust, Warrington, Merseyside and has provided consultancy and training to Assertive Outreach teams in England and Wales. Caroline was also a National Steering Group Member of the National Forum for Assertive Outreach. <p><b>Mike Firn</b> is Clinical Service Development Lead at South West London & St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. He is also Chair of the National Forum for Assertive Outreach.</p> <p><b>Simon Wharne</b> is the South East Regional Representative for the National Forum for Assertive Outreach and Team Leader for the Hastings and Rother Outreach Team.</p> <p><b>Dr Rob Macpherson</b> is Consultant Psychiatrist in rehabilitation and assertive outreach, based at Wotton Lawn Hospital, Gloucester. He is also Training Programme Director for general adult psychiatry, Severn Deanery.</p>
"This book is a treasure trove for anyone with an interest in the nature, impact, and inner workings of assertive outreach teams."<br /> —<b>From the foreword by Kim T Mueser, Ph.D, Professor of Psychiatry and of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School</b> <p><i>Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives</i>explores the experiences, successes, interventions, service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention. It provides a synthesis of expert experience in the field as well as experiences of 'grass roots' team practitioners.</p> <p>This book makes a valuable contribution to the field by addressing in depth a wide range of topics critical to the delivery of assertive outreach services that have previously received scant attention in the growing clinical lore on this approach and provides practitioners with a manual in which they can feed lessons learned from other teams for continuous service improvement. This book is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in assertive outreach and community treatment approaches in mental health.</p> <p><b>Special features:</b></p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Provides a contemporary analysis of current service developments in the area</li> <li>Written by experts in the field</li> <li>Covers cross cutting issues relevant to all areas of community mental health care</li> <li>Includes multiple perspectives: service user, researcher, service manager, commissioner, clinician and carer</li> <li>Covers both service delivery and therapeutic interventions</li> <li>Explores how the assertive outreach model is applied in the UK and Europe</li> </ul>

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