1st Edition
Mental Health Social Work Observed
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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Despite extensive changes in the organisation of social and psychiatric services, there had been no study of mental health social work in the UK since the early 1960s. There was, however, no shortage of ‘received wisdom’ about the perceived failure of social work to provide a service to the mentally disordered. Originally published in 1984, it was to provide some basic information about the... Read more
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. The Social Workers and their Teams 3. Working with the Health Services 4. The Clients in the Study 5. Receiving Social Work 6. Providing Social Work 7. Four Case Studies 8. The Use of Compulsory Powers 9. Improving the Service. Appendix: Referral and Review Forms. References. Index.
Biography
Mike Fisher, Clive Newton, Eric Sainsbury
