This book explores the use and effects of psychotherapy with the mentally handicapped. It discusses the issues involved in providing psychotherapy for this client group, including the implications of prejudice and stereotyping and the clients' own constructions of their disabilities. The authors outline the theory, practice and techniques of a range of individual or group therapeutic approaches for different circumstances, including psychotherapy within families for mentally handicapped children. The policy and training implications for practitioners are reviewed. The overall aim of this guide is to show the importance of, and provide a resource for, the adoption of therapeutic approaches in the treatment of mentally handicapped people.
As the first attempt to synthesize the movement toward widespread implementation of evidence-based mental health practices, this groundbreaking collection articulates the basic tenets of evidence-based medicine and shows how practices proven effective by clinical services research could improve the lives of many people.
Mental Health Policy and Practice Today brin gs together practitioners and researchers to describe and re flect upon the dynamic nature of US mental health practice i n a period of rapid social change. '
This volume describes a myriad of policy, research and practice issues related to families of children with serious emotional disorders. It centres on families' direct and indirect roles in children's mental health services - for example, families can determine if and when the child enters treatment, and they can provide the context within which ......
Offering the latest information on crisis intervention and time-limited treatment strategies, this practical sourcebook will equip practitioners with the knowledge to respond and deal effectively with individuals in crisis. Each chapter presents state-of-the-art information about high-risk crisis intervention, and includes detailed case illustrations and brief treatment techniques. Based on the seven-stage intervention model, these guidelines thoroughly address the specifics of work with sexual assault survivors, adolescents who attempt suicide, family members in crisis, people with AIDS and their families, alcoholics, unemployed people, stalking victims, and disaster and terrorist survivors. The book concludes with explorations of handling crises on the telephone and hotline calls.
Defining and Measuring Quality in Psychiatric Care for Adults and Children (Report of the APA Task Force on Quality Indicators)
This compelling monograph combines -- for the first time -- the reports from two American Psychiatric Association task forces on quality in psychiatric care, offering a clinical framework for quality measurement that provides sample indicators of quality for health plans, facilities, and systems of care.
This timely work offers compelling facts and insights in a concise yet comprehensive format, bringing together the latest research and clinical practice related to these four distinct communities (self-identified lesbian women and gay men and bisexual and transgender individuals)
This practical volume brings together distinguished clinicians and policymakers who focus on the operational aspects of developing state-of-the-art integrated delivery systems, from concept and structural foundations to critical administrative and management structures.
This book teaches psychiatrists, mental health professionals, and administrators how reviewers think and how to present a case in a manner that greatly increases the likelihood that a reviewer will approve the request for care. Issues are highlighted in vignettes illustrating a clinician's presentation of a case and a typical reviewer's comments.
