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Helping Families Cope With Mental Illness
In this age of spiraling health care costs, it is imperative that the family's role in treating patients with chronic mental illness not be overlooked - by policy makers and clinicians alike. The families themselves insist that the government and care-providing agencies learn new ways to relate to them and patients. Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness is a comprehensive guide to the family's experience of chronic and serious mental illness for clinicians and educators in a wide range of mental health disciplines. It details all major areas of the clinician-family relationship - consumer perspectives, cultural diversity, social policy, ethical issues, practical coping strategies, research and training issues, major service issues, managed care, and cost-saving measures.
The Skipping Stone
Drawing on her experience as the parent of a severely mentally ill child and an advocate for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Wasow (social work, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) focuses on the impact of people with severe mental illness on children, spouses, siblings, and other relatives. She addresses emotional responses such as grief, anger, frustration, and hope; offers coping strategies for family members; and suggests implications for clinicians. Based on Wasow's reviews of the literature as well as surveys and extended interviews with a selected group of respondents, this well-researched book for an often overlooked group is recommended for most public and academic libraries.Lucille Boone, San Jose P.L., Cal. -Library Journal.
New Directions for Mental Health Services, Speculative Innovations for Helping People with Serious Mental Illness
If there were no financial or legal restraints, what parts of the mental health system would you change in hopes of improving the lives of people with serious mental illnesses? This volume of New Directions for Mental Health Services posed this question to a consumer, a parent, researchers, teachers, administrators, and clinicians. Their creative and insightful answers point the way to a more comforting and consumer-oriented mental health system for the future, and provide some innovative ideas that could be implemented now. The authors address working conditions for mental health professionals, the benefits of pets to people with mental illness, and strategies to counteract the isolation in which many people with mental illness live. They also offer practical steps that parents can take to make sure that their mentally ill adult children will have some emotional and economic care after the parents? deaths, and they discuss interventions at both the domestic and community levels that could reduce the occurrence of schizophrenia and enhance the quality of life for sufferers. This is the 83rd issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Mental Health Services.
A Casebook of Family Interventions for Psychosis
A practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions. Approximately 1 in 100 people experience psychosis, which can severely disrupt home and family life and place a heavy burden on carers A practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions Shows how to tailor family interventions to meet different needs e.g. working via interpreter or with families in which multiple members suffer mental health problems No direct competition on family interventions for psychosis
Souls Are Made of Endurance
In Souls Are Made of Endurance, Stewart Govig gives a personal account of his family's struggle with their son's mental illness. After his son was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Govig's family faced not only the difficulty of finding medical care and therapy but also the personal anguish and the questioning of faith and of God that often accompany such a crisis. The author's two foundations are the Bible and personal experience. His spiritual search returns meaning to his family's struggle and restores faith and hope. Govig provides guidance and support, and exposes the way society stigmatizes people with mental illness. This book is a powerful statement of hope that every pastor, counselor, and family dealing with mental illness needs to read.
Teaching Death and Dying
The academic study of death rose to prominence during the 1960s. Courses on some aspect of death and dying can now be found at most institutions of higher learning. These courses tend to stress the psycho-social aspects of grief and bereavement, however, ignoring the religious elements inherent to the subject. This collection is the first to address the teaching of courses on death and dying from a religious-studies perspective.
The Environment of Schizophrenia
There is now a body of evidence suggesting that the occurrence and course of schizophrenia is affected by a variety of environmental factors. Examining environmental forces operating at the individual, domestic and broad societal levels, Richard Warner proposes feasible interventions such as education about obstetric risks marketing effective psychosocial treatments business enterprises set up to employ people with mental illness cognitive-behavioural therapy for psychosis The Environment of Shizophrenia suggests practical ways to create a better world for those who suffer from this serious illness and for those who are close to them. It will prove fresh and stimulating reading for mental health service managers and policy makers, as well as psychiatrists and clinical psychologists.
