Mental health social work : evidence-based practice / Colin Pritchard.
| Author/creator | Pritchard, Colin, 1936- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. |
| Description | xiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | pt. 1. A psychiatric perspective -- In the beginning : cultural history and poetry of madness -- What does mental health/disorder mean? -- Defining mental disorder : a psychiatric framework -- Defining mental disorder : a framework for the schizophrenias -- The 'minor' mental disorders -- pt. 2. A bio-psycho-social perspective -- Critique of unidimensional medicalisation of mental disorder -- Other problems of psychiatry -- Mental health social work with people with mood disorders -- Mental health social work with people with schizophrenia -- pt. 3. The emergency perspective -- Mental health social work with 'suicidal' people -- Personality disorders and the psychiatric-child protection interface -- Statutory mental health social work: care and control dilemmas and role of the approved social worker -- The accommodation dimension : housing and mental disorder -- The vortex of mental disorder : the client speaks. |
| Local note | Little-346597--305131051984/ |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-301) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005025906 |
| ISBN | 0415319021 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415319013 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415319027 |
| ISBN | 9780415319010 |