A prescription for psychiatry : why we need a whole new approach to mental health and wellbeing /

A prescription for psychiatry : why we need a whole new approach to mental health and wellbeing /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kinderman, Peter, author.
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description:	vi, 212 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mental health services. Health care reform. Mental illness -- Treatment. Mental illness. Health Care Reform. Mental Health Services -- organization & administration. Mental Disorders -- therapy. Mental Health. Psychiatry -- methods. Health care reform. Mental health services. Mental illness. Mental illness -- Treatment.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10089954

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ISBN:	9781137408709 9781137408693 (hardback) 1137408693 (hardback) 1137408707 (paperback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Disease Model of Mental Health: A System in Crisis
1. Get the Message Right: A Psychosocial Model of Mental Health and Well-being
2. Understand, Don't Diagnose
3. The Drugs Don't Work ... So Offer Real Solutions
4. Promote Health and Well-being
5. Residential Care ... Not Medical Coercion
6. Team working
7. Social and Community Services in Local Authority Management
8. Can We Afford It?
9. A Manifesto for the Reform of Mental Health and Well-being Services
Notes
Index