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Outreach in the community is the treatment of choice for the severely mentally ill in the community. It involves taking services directly to patients rather than requiring them to attend clinics and hospitals. This approach is a significant addition to routine mental health care practice and addresses the needs of marginalized communities and those that struggle to attend appointments.Outreach in Community Mental Health Care: A Manual for Practitioners has been fully updated since the last edition, providing readers with an in-depth, practical guide to mental health care in the community setting today. It addresses the significant changes in mental health service organizations over the years, including the various new teams devised and the importance of central planning and targets. The authors Tom Burns and Mike Firn are pioneers in this field of research and are active in community outreach as practitioners, researchers, and supervisors. In 29 chapters they cover key discussions in conceptual issues, health and social care practice, management and development, which provides readers with an insight into the reality of community outreach work.

Table of Contents:
Conceptual issues 1: The evolution of community outreach 2: Current context and aims 3: Who is assertive outreach for? Referrals and discharges 4: Model variance and model fidelity: the lessons from ACT 5: Key working versus the 'whole-team approach' 6: Access: office hours, shifts or 24/7 availability? 7: The role of medication 8: Compulsion and freedom 9: Cultural sensitivity Health and social care practice 10: Engagement 11: Medication compliance 12: Hostility 13: Suicidality 14: Self-neglect 15: Schizophrenia and delusional disorders 16: Bipolar affective disorder 17: Personality problems and disorders 18: Depression, anxiety, and situational disorders 19: Substance misuse/dual diagnosis 20: Finance and appointeeship 21: Housing and homelessness 22: Physical health care 23: Employment 24: Daily living skills 25: Psychosocial interventions with families, carers and patients Management and Development 26: Operational and team management 27: Training 28: Service planning 29: Research and development

About the Author :
Tom Burns is Professor Emeritus of Social Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. Before that he was consultant psychiatrist and professor of Community Psychiatry at St George's in South West London where he and Mike Firn together set up and ran the Wandsworth Assertive Community Treatment Team. He has predominantly researched community mental health services practice, particularly complex interventions. He has published six books with Oxford University Press. Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry, a book on psychiatry for the general reader was published by Penguin in 2014. He was awarded the CBE in 2006 for services to mental health care. Mike Firn has over 30 years' experience in the National Health Service in England as a registered nurse, team leader and operational manager. He has set up, developed and evaluated numerous new community mental health teams across the care pathway from early intervention, assertive outreach and crisis services. He is a current board member of national and European clinical networks in assertive outreach. He also provides much of his time as an external consultant for an independent charity, The Health Foundation, working alongside grant funded health innovation projects.

Review :
`Review from previous edition The authors have produced a clear and readable text which dispenses good practical information . . . This book will be invaluable to practitioners and students alike and should be considered essential reading for anyone working in or alongside assertive outreach services.' British Journal of Occupational Therapy `Burns and Firn's book is a comprehensive guide to assertive outreach practice, and is essential reading for anyone working in this specialism.' Red Journal `Assertive outreach is a central plank of the government's mental health care reforms, yet we still lack any clear definition of its role in relation to other forms of care. Burns and Firn's book is thus very timely.' Mental Health Today `. . . the strength of the book lies in its open and honest discussion of the problems that are faced by mental health professionals working in community settings. The authors set out to reflect issues that concern multidisciplinary teams on a day-to-day basis, and this is exactly what they have succeeded in doing. The book is filled with interesting observations and sound advice.' Psychological Medicine, 33


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  • ISBN-13: 9780198754237
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Manual for Practitioners
  • Width: 157 mm
  • ISBN-10: 019875423X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 586 gr


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