Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-301) and index.
Contents:
pt. 1. A psychiatric perspective -- In the beginning : cultural history and poetry of madness -- What does mental health/disorder mean? -- Defining mental disorder : a psychiatric framework -- Defining mental disorder : a framework for the schizophrenias -- The 'minor' mental disorders -- pt. 2. A bio-psycho-social perspective -- Critique of unidimensional medicalisation of mental disorder -- Other problems of psychiatry -- Mental health social work with people with mood disorders -- Mental health social work with people with schizophrenia -- pt. 3. The emergency perspective -- Mental health social work with 'suicidal' people -- Personality disorders and the psychiatric-child protection interface -- Statutory mental health social work: care and control dilemmas and role of the approved social worker -- The accommodation dimension : housing and mental disorder -- The vortex of mental disorder : the client speaks.
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