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An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis: A Manual for Family Workers

An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis: A Manual for Family Workers

Smith, Gina
Gregory, Karl
Higgs, Annie

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General PsychologyMental HealthPoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 1843103699
ISBN13: 9781843103691
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publ Inc
Published: Mar 1 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.11
Language: English

An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis is a manual for using cognitive behavioural approach to working with families of people with severe mental illness.

The authors, all experienced clinicians, discuss the various core components of family work, including what constitutes family work, when it might be offered, and how and where it might be applied. As well as these core concerns, the authors also look at reframing challenges and overcoming common personal and external barriers to effective family work. Each chapter can be read individually or as part of the integrated manual. The central argument of the book is that family work must be individualised and it offers a clear approach to engaging and working with families to ensure that this happens, including guidance on how to link components of a service user's plan with their family's strengths and strategies for reducing stress. The book addressed both theory and practice, and concentrates on the experience of mental illness for the service user and their family, providing a focus for intervention.

Exploring family work as an integrated psychosocial and educational support strategy, this manual will increase the confidence and competence of new family workers - mental health workers, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists - and broaden the knowledge of those already working in the area.

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