SOLUTION-FOCUSED BRIEF PRACTICE WITH LONG-TERM CLIENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES by Joel K. Simon, Thorana S. Nelson ( 9780789027955 )

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SOLUTION-FOCUSED BRIEF PRACTICE WITH LONG-TERM CLIENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
I AM MORE THAN MY LABEL

By:

Joel K. Simon, Thorana S. Nelson

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078902795X

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9780789027955

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Pub. date:

30 October, 2007

Pages:

192

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Provides practitioners an alternative way of thinking about and working with individuals who have been long-term users of the mental health system. This book offers an approach that can be applied to those who have been in the mental health system for years and may remain so. It is suitable for psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists.

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Valuable patient-centered ideas for treating mental illness Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by focusing on a patient's personal feelings and hopes. In fact, these established methods can even have a dehumanizing and devaluing effect on a patient. Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services is a practical introduction and guide that provides practitioners an alternative way of thinking about and working with individuals who have been long-term users of the mental health system. Through interviews, case studies, and actual client testimony, this valuable text demonstrates the most effective ways to establish patient-centered conversations that forge collaborative relationships, realize strengths, and use them to move toward healing. Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services is a strength-based approach that utilizes a client's personal and social resources to help them find a satisfactory solution to the sources of their need for professional help.This book offers a unique approach that can be applied to those who have been in the mental health system for many years and may remain so. Accessible and useable, this guide explores the meaning of conventional diagnosis and treatment and how both can actually reinforce the client's disability, chronicity, and sense of helplessness as a person. Topics Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services covers include: * the tools of solution-focused brief practice * working with borderline personality disorder * adaptability and application to different contexts * "reading" the client during discussion sessions * emphasizing an individual's healthy parts * the role of community support * rethinking the medical model * implementing solution-focused practices in agencies and hospitals * poststructuralism, social constructionism, and language games * and many more! Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services is extensively referenced with a detailed bibliography.It is an essential resource for psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, family therapists, counselors, nurse practitioners, and schools of social work and family therapy training programs. Staff of inpatient psychiatric hospitals, psycho-social clubs, and community mental health clinics will also benefit from this indispensable text.

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Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group

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