Treatment and Rehabilitation of Severe Mental Illness
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Severe Mental Illness

Author: William Delbert Spaulding

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2003-01-24

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9781572308411

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Synthesizing the growing body of biomedical and psychosocial research on the nature and treatment of severe mental illness, this volume presents an innovative framework for planning and implementing effective rehabilitation services. An integrative model of case formulation is described that conceptualizes the individual's recovery on multiple levels: physiological, cognitive, interpersonal, behavioral, and environmental. The authors draw on outcome research and extensive clinical experience to identify interventions of known effectiveness, including psychopharmacology, functional assessment, behavioral analysis, and cognitive therapies. Outlining a comprehensive approach to assessment, treatment, and progress evaluation, the book also provides practical recommendations for program development and staff training. A broad range of professionals involved in treatment and rehabilitation of people with severe mental illness, including clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and psychiatrists, as well as advanced students in these areas. Also of interest to nurses, hospital administrators, and social workers.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Author: Carlos W. Pratt

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2006-10-06

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 0080465900

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Psychiatric rehabilitation refers to community treatment of people with mental disorders. Community treatment has recently become far more widespread due to deinstitutionalization at government facilities. This book is an update of the first edition's discussion of types of mental disorders, including etiology, symptoms, course, and outcome, types of community treatment programs, case management strategies, and vocational and educational rehabilitation. Providing a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing field, this book is suitable both as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses, a training tool for mental health workers, and a reference for academic researchers studying mental health. The book is written in an easy to read, engaging style. Each chapter contains highlighted and defined key terms, focus questions and key topics, a case study example, special sections on controversial issues of treatment or ethics, and other special features.*New chapters on supported education and integrated dual diagnosis treatment services*Comprehensive overview of all models and approaches of psychiatric rehabilitation*Special inserts on Evidence-Based Practices*New content on Wellness and Recovery*Class exercises for each chapter*Profiles of leaders in the field*Case study examples illustrate chapter points

Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Author: Robert King

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1118702530

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The Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation is designed as a clinical handbook for practitioners in the field of mental health. It recognises the wide-ranging impact of mental illness and its ramifications on daily life. The book promotes a recovery model of psychosocial rehabilitation and aims to empower clinicians to engage their clients in tailored rehabilitation plans. The authors distil relevant evidence from the literature, but the focus is on the clinical setting. Coverage includes the service environment, assessment, maintaining recovery-focussed therapeutic relationships, the role of pharmacotherapy, intensive case management and vocational rehabilitation.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation of Chronic Mental Patients
Psychiatric Rehabilitation of Chronic Mental Patients

Author: Robert Paul Liberman

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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This book provides highly detailed prescriptions for the assessment and treatment techniques with case examples and learning exercises for the reader.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Author: Carlos W. Pratt

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2013-08-29

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 0123870089

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The third edition of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, discusses interventions to help individuals with mental illness improve the quality of their life, achieve goals, and increase opportunities for community integration so they can lead full and productive lives. This person centered approach emphasizes strengths, skill development, and the attainment of valued social roles. The third edition has been fully updated with new coverage indicating how to address medical problems while treating for mental illness, wellness and recovery, evidence based practices, and directions for future research. Retaining the easy to read, engaging style, each chapter includes key terms with definitions, case studies, profiles of leaders in the field, special issues relating to treatment and ethics, and class exercises. Providing a comprehensive overview of this growing field, the book is suitable as an undergraduate or graduate textbook, as well as a reference for practitioners and academic researchers. Special Features: - Provides new coverage on comorbid medical disorders, evidence based practices, wellness and recovery, and direction for future research - Identifies controversial issues relating to treatment and ethics - Supplies case study examples to illustrate chapter points - Highlights key terms with definitions and key topics - Offers focus questions and class exercises as a teaching tool - New coverage of DSM-V diagnosis, evidence-based treatment, and daily living skills training - Retains case studies, boxed controversial issues, glossary

Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Practice
Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Practice

Author: Robert W. Flexer

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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A practical guide to the best practices and interventions for professionals working with people who have psychiatric disabilities. In a multidisciplinary, integrated approach, defines rehabilitation as a series of interventions such as case management, vocational rehabilitation, house and supports, and supported employment. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Recovery and Wellness
Recovery and Wellness

Author: Catana Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 113640791X

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Learn to harness the process of recovery from mental illness for use in the transformative healing of your OT clients!This informative book for occupational therapists describes the Recovery Model from theoretical and experiential perspectives, and shows how to use it most effectively. It examines the major constructs of the model, describes the recovery process, offers specific OT approaches to support recovery, and provides guidelines for incorporating wellness and recovery principles into mental health services.This unique book you will show you: how recovery--in this case from schizophrenia--can be used as a transformative healing process the challenges and benefits of a dual role as a mental health professional and a consumer of mental health services the story of one occupational therapist’s journey of discovery in relation to her own mental illness why treating mental illness as a medical problem can be counterproductive to recovery three different teaching approaches--the executive approach, the therapist approach, and the liberationist approach--and how they lead to dramatically different outcomes the vital relationship between occupational therapy and recovery and wellness--with an enlightening case study how to use the Adult Sensory Profile to evaluate and design interventions for sensory processing preferences a system for monitoring, reducing, and eliminating uncomfortable or dangerous physical symptoms and feelings how to establish partnerships between mental health researchers and persons with psychiatric disabilities