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Tackling Mental Health Crises

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Description for Tackling Mental Health Crises Paperback. Contains practical advice on managing mental health crises. This book looks at what constitutes a crisis, be it an individual crisis presentation or a situational crisis for services. It covers topics such as assessing the client; risk assessment and management; and more. It is useful for mental health nurses, social workers and psychiatrists. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white tables, 11 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 385.

Tackling Mental Health Crises provides a practical guide to combining social and psychological responses to mental health problems.

David Kingdon and Marie Finn look at what constitutes a crisis, be it an individual crisis presentation or a situational crisis for services. They reject current diagnostic approaches to mental health, focussing instead on a symptom-led approach and keeping an awareness of the intervention experience for clients and carers throughout. Subjects covered include:

  • engaging and assessing the client
  • risk assessment and management
  • emotional, behavioural, cognitive and physical presentations
  • service teams and settings.

The emphasis throughout is on taking a holistic look at crisis prevention and management, encompassing ... Read more

Containing clear direction and practical advice, combined with numerous case studies and commentary from users and carers themselves, this book will be of great use to anyone involved with dealing with mental health crises.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781583919798
SKU
V9781583919798
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About David Kingdon
David Kingdon has worked as a psychiatrist with mental health teams for over twenty years. He has also been involved in policy, research and teaching about mental health services and particularly cognitive therapy, latterly, as Professor at the University of Southampton. He has published many papers, chapters and three books, including Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia. Marie Finn is an ... Read more

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