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The second edition of this classic text has been fully updated to reflect the changing context of practice and the considerable shifts in the field of mental health policy. It explores how current major issues, such as the social exclusion experienced by those suffering from mental illness, civil liberties and human rights concerns and apprehensions around public protection can impinge on practice, together with emerging developments such as the growth of the user movement. With its focus on sound practice, this edition continues to provide highly relevant, experience-based guidelines for practice for social workers and others working with sufferers from the psychoses (principally affective disorders, schizophrenia and dementia). Using practice axioms, the book examines direct work with sufferers, work for sufferers within the clinical team and the social environment, with a particular reference to work with the families affected. In addition this clearly written text discusses definitions of mental health and illnesses and explores attitudes to psychiatry and psychiatric services. Well-structured and engagingly written, this important text provides clear guidance for practice in a complex and demanding field.
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Working with Mental Illness A Community-based Approach Second Edition
Derek Tilbury
PRACTICAL SOCIAL WORK Series Editor: Jo Campling
BASW Editorial Advisory Board: Robert Adams, Terry Bamford, Charles Barker, Lena Dominelli, Malcolm Payne, Michael Preston-Shoot, Daphne Statham and Jane Tunstill Social work is at an important stage in its development. All professions must be responsive to changing social and economic conditions if they are to meet the needs of those they serve. This series focuses on sound practice and the specific contribution which social workers can make to the well-being of our society. The British Association of Social Workers has always been conscious of its role in setting guidelines for practice and in seeking to raise professional standards. The conception of the Practical Social Work series arose from a survey of BASW members to discover where they, the practitioners in social work, felt there was the most need for new literature. The response was overwhelming and enthusiastic, and the result is a carefully planned, coherent series of books. The emphasis is firmly on practice set in a theoretical framework. The books will inform, stimulate and promote discussion, thus adding to the further development of skills and high professional standards. All the authors are practitioners and teachers of social work representing a wide variety of experience.
JO CAMPLING A list of published titles in this series follows overleaf Practical Social Work Series Standing Order ISBN 0–333–69347–7 You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in the case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England
PRACTICAL SOCIAL WORK Robert Adams Social Work and Empowerment
Danya Glaser and Stephen Frosh Child Sexual Abuse (2nd edn)
David Anderson Social Work and Mental Handicap
Gill Gorell Barnes Working with Families
Sarah Banks Ethics and Values in Social Work (2nd edn)
Cordelia Grimwood and Ruth Popplestone Women, Management and Care
James G. Barber Beyond Casework
Jalna Hanmer and Daphne Statham Women and Social Work
James G. Barber Social Work with Addictions
Tony Jeffs and Mark Smith (eds) Youth Work
Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft Citizen Involvement
Michael Kerfoot and Alan Butler Problems of Chil