Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems provides the reader with many examples of thoughts, ideas and perspectives in a user-friendly, easily accessible format.

Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems is a practice-based handbook/manual that has a sound evidence basis. It is designed to be used as a reference handbook in either the clinical setting, classroom or at home, in statutory or non-statutory surroundings.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. History of Mental Health Care
3. Mad, Bad or Just Different
4. Partnership Working in Mental Health Care
5. Promoting Mental Health
6. Legal Matters
7. Anxiety Disorders
8. Mood Disorders Including Self-harm and Suicide
9. Eating Disorders
10. Dual Diagnosis: Substance Misuse and Mental Health Problems
11. Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia-type Disorders
12. Personality Disorder
13. Dementias
14. Therapeutic Interventions

Index

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