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Title Creative positions in adult mental health : outside in-inside out / edited by Sue McNab and Karen Partridge
Published London : Karnac Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Systemic thinking and practice series
Systemic thinking and practice series.
Contents Section One. Outside In:a Stance Towards Theory -- Section Two. Inside Out:an Appreciation Of Practice
Section One. Outside In:a Stance Towards Theory -- Part I. Deconstructing Theoretical Positions : -- 1. Psychiatric diagnosis and its dilemmas -- 2. Missing the point: the shy story of disappointment -- 3. Dancing between discourses -- Part II. Constructing Alternative Positions : -- 4. Coming to reasonable terms with our histories: narrative ideas, memory, and mental health -- 5. "Where the hell is everybody?" Leanna's resistance to armed robbery and negative social responses -- 6. Psychiatry, emotion, and the family: from expressed emotion to dialogical selves -- Section Two. Inside Out:an Appreciation Of Practice -- Part I. Space In Tight Corners: Practice-Based Examples : -- 7. Open dialogues mobilise the resources of the family and the patient -- 8. Narrative psychiatry -- 9. Family needs, family solutions: developing family therapy in adult mental health services -- 10. The significance of dialogue to wellbeing: learning from social constructionist couple therapy -- Part II. Privileging The Voice Of The Client And Therapist : -- 11. Narrative therapy with children of parents experiencing mental health difficulties -- 12. Hearing Voices: creating theatre from stories told by mental health service users -- 13. Beyond the spoken word -- 14. Voices from the frontline: "keeping on keeping on"- what matters to staff working in adult mental health services?
Summary This book presents cutting edge developments in Adult Mental Health through the presentation of creative and innovative applications of systemic theory to practice. The first section deconstructs the medical model with some of the current beliefs and practices shaping services whilst placing adult mental health in a wider social and political context. The second half of the book showcases good practice from the field. At either end of the volume "bookends" invite current clients and staff to write about their experiences with the aim of bringing a powerful personal context into the work. We intend to create a shift from third person objectivity to a first person experience as a political act which flows through the book
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mental illness -- Treatment.
Mental health services.
Mental Health Services
Mental Disorders -- therapy
Mental Disorders -- rehabilitation
Narrative Therapy -- methods
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
Mental health services
Mental illness -- Treatment
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Genre/Form Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author McNab, Sue, editor
Partridge, Karen, editor
ISBN 9781782411277
1782411275
1306549272
9781306549271
9781781812587
1781812586
9780429473401
0429473400