Gwen Howe

Mental Health Assessments

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written with the help of sufferers and carers to give a consumer's perspective of how the mental health services react when a person becomes mentally ill. The book focuses on the problems that can arise when someone undergoes a formal assessment for compulsory admission to hospital and examines what can go wrong with the assessment process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781853024580
• ISBN-10: 1853024589
• Artikelnr.: 22288234

Autorenporträt

Gwen Howe

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Mental health assessments: an introduction. 2. Slipping out of
the system. 3. A `least restrictive' practice. 4. The role of medication in
acute psychosis. 5. Slipping into the wrong system. 6. Carers and a need
for caring. 7. A reluctance to use the law? 8. Mental health assessments:
summing up. Further reading. Useful addresses. Glossary. Index.