1st Edition

Caring for the Mentally Ill in the Community

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1981, Caring for the Mentally Ill in the Community is a manual of treatment practice for those working with psychiatric patients in the community—psychiatric nurses, social workers, health visitors, district nurses, and general practitioners. The book seeks to remove psychiatric disorder from its ‘illness’ orientation and examines the effects and process of mental disorder... Read more

Preface  Part 1: Psychiatric lllness in the Community  1. The Road to Illness  2. Hospital Care versus Community Care  3. On Seeking Assistance and Using the Family in Treatment Part 2: Treatment Practice  4. Assessment  5. Treatment Approaches  6. Programme Planning and Evaluation 

Biography

Charles Anthony Butterworth

David Skidmore