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Social Therapy: A Guide to Social Support Interventions for Mental Health Practitioners
Derek L. Milne
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Description for Social Therapy: A Guide to Social Support Interventions for Mental Health Practitioners
Paperback. Many countries have reduced dramatically the proportion of patients in psychiatric hospitals in favour of community care. The demand for mental health care in the community keeps growing, and cannot be met by traditional, conventional services alone. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMH; MBPK; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Many countries have reduced dramatically the proportion of patients in psychiatric hospitals in favour of community care. The demand for mental health care in the community keeps growing, and cannot be met by traditional, conventional services alone. Radical and innovative approaches are now being recommended, which include integrating services and professional groups, delegating responsibility to the operational level to much smaller areas, the local neighbourhood patches and developing social support systems in these patches, for example, co-ordinating and mobilising voluntary resources as an important element of community care. It is increasingly recognised that a range of non-professional therapists, practitioners in ... Read more
Many countries have reduced dramatically the proportion of patients in psychiatric hospitals in favour of community care. The demand for mental health care in the community keeps growing, and cannot be met by traditional, conventional services alone. Radical and innovative approaches are now being recommended, which include integrating services and professional groups, delegating responsibility to the operational level to much smaller areas, the local neighbourhood patches and developing social support systems in these patches, for example, co-ordinating and mobilising voluntary resources as an important element of community care. It is increasingly recognised that a range of non-professional therapists, practitioners in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471987277
SKU
V9780471987277
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99-50
About Derek L. Milne
Derek L. Milne is the author of Social Therapy: A Guide to Social Support Interventions for Mental Health Practitioners, published by Wiley.
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