Psychiatric Rehabilitation - Hardcover

Pratt, Carlos; Etc.; Gill, Kenneth; Barrett, Nora; Roberts, Melissa

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9780125642453: Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0125642458 ISBN 13: 9780125642453

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 1999

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Community based services for people with severe mental illness promote community integration, improved quality of life, and recovery. "Psychiatric Rehabilitation" provides a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing field. The book, written in an easy-to-read, engaging style, is suitable as a textbook for both undergraduate and graduate courses, as a training tool for mental health workers, and as a reference for academic researchers studying mental health. Each chapter contains highlighted and defined key terms, focus questions and key topics, a case study example, sections on controversial issues of treatment or ethics, and other special features. An overview of major psychiatric disorders, the philosophy and principles of psychiatric rehabilitation, community based service approaches, case management strategies, and vocational and educational rehabilitation are included. Case study examples illustrate chapter points. Special boxed sections address controversial issues and key topics. It includes biographical sketches of major theorists. It highlights and defines key terms. Focus questions are provided. It provides class exercises at close of each chapter.

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"Psychiatric Rehabilitation provides a comprehensive overview of community based services for people with severe mental illness. Written in an easy-to-read, engaging style, Psychiatric Rehabilitation is ideal as a textbook for both undergraduate and graduate courses, as a training tool for mental health workers, and as a reference for academic research in the field of mental health. Each chapter contains highlighted and defined key terms, focus question, key topics, a case study example, and sections on controversial issues of treatment or ethics. Also provided are an overview of major psychiatric disorders, the philosophy and principles of psychiatric rehabilitation, community based service approaches, case management strategies, vocational and educational rehabilitations. Psychiatric Rehabilitation serves as the ideal introduction for students and non-specialist general readers to an important aspect of psychiatric services." --WISCONSIN BOOKWATCH, September 1999

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation has grown tremendously as a field since the 1999 publication of the first edition. With increased funding, evidence-based practice guidelines, a certification program, and increased academic programs at both graduate and undergraduate levels, the volume of new information on the topic required a new edition.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 2e was written explicitly to appeal as a course text for classes in this rapidly growing field. New to the second edition are sections added to each chapter on evidence-based practices, as well as future research directions and two new chapters.

The book follows a logical progression from an introduction to the field, to the symptoms and etiology of severe mental illness, to course, treatment, and outcome of severe and persisitent mental illness. The book discusses the goals, values, and guiding principles of psychiatric rehabilitation, methods utilized, day programming, and case management. A new chapter discusses the issues of dual diagnosis for substance abuse and mental illness. Separate chapters discuss vocational rehabilitation and supported education, and closing chapters discuss residential services and independent living, self-help and peer-delivered services, a new chapter on psychiatric rehabilitation within the hospital settings, and the role of the family in psychiatric rehabilitation across settings and services.

Written in one clear voice, each chapter begins with an outline and introduction, contains special boxed sections addressing controversial issues and key topics, and has a case study to illustrate principles discussed in the text. Evidence based practices are highlighted in a special section, future research directions are contained in another section, and the chapters conclude with a summary, class exercises, and references.

Key features:
Case study examples illustrate chapter points
Special boxed sections address controversial issues and key topics
Evidence based practices called out in new section for each chapter
Glossary highlights and defines key terms
Class exercises provided at close of each chapter

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