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This book gives a comprehensive, evidence-based account of assertive outreach from a Strengths perspective. Emphasising developing a collaborative approach to working with the service user, which stresses the achievement of the service user's own aspirations, and building upon the service user's own strengths and resources. The book gives a comprehensive, authoritative approach to the subject, which combines both an overview of the policy and practice issues. It makes use of extensive case study material, to illustrate individual and team circumstances. Both authors have over ten years experience of working in this field, and have published extensively on assertive outreach.

Community Mental Health Services. --- Mentally Ill Persons. --- United Kingdom. --- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders.

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Over the course of the centuries the meanings around mental illness have shifted many times according to societal beliefs and the political atmosphere of the day. The way madness is defined has far reaching effects on those who have a mental disorder, and determines how they are treated by the professionals responsible for their care, and the society of which they are a part. Although madness as mental illness seems to be the dominant Western view of madness, it is by no means the only view of what it means to be ‘mad’. The symptoms of madness or mental illness occur in all cultures of the world, but have different meanings in different social and cultural contexts. Evidence suggests that meanings of mental illness have a significant impact on subjective experience; the idioms used in the expression thereof, indigenous treatments, and subsequent outcomes. Thus, the societal understandings of madness are central to the problem of mental illness and those with the lived experience can lead the process of reconstructing this meaning.

Mental illness --- Social constructionism. --- Mental Disorders. --- Mentally Ill Persons. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Social Theory. --- Public opinion. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders.

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This text explores local medical, lay and legal negotiations with the asylum system in 19th-century Ireland. It deepens our understanding of protagonists' attitudes towards the mentally ill and institutional provision for the care and containment of people diagnosed as insane.

Hospitals, Psychiatric --- Commitment of Mentally Ill --- Mental Health Services --- Mentally Ill Persons --- History, 19th Century. --- history. --- Ireland. --- Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders --- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders

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Mental health laws --- Commitment of Mentally Ill --- Mental Competency --- Mental Health Services --- Mentally Ill Persons --- legislation & jurisprudence --- Great Britain. --- Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders --- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders

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We have made huge progress in understanding the biology of mental illnesses, but comparatively little in interpreting them at the psychological level. The eminent philosopher Jonathan Glover believes that there is real hope of progress in the human interpretation of disordered minds. The challenge is that the inner worlds of people with psychiatric disorders can seem strange, like alien landscapes, and this strangeness can deter attempts at understanding. Do people with disorders share enough psychology with other people to make interpretation possible? To explore this question, Glover tackles the hard cases-the inner worlds of hospitalized violent criminals, of people with delusions, and of those diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia. Their first-person accounts offer glimpses of inner worlds behind apparently bizarre psychiatric conditions and allow us to begin to learn the "language" used to express psychiatric disturbance. Art by psychiatric patients, or by such complex figures as van Gogh and William Blake, give insight when interpreted from Glover's unique perspective. He also draws on dark chapters in psychiatry's past to show the importance of not medicalizing behavior that merely transgresses social norms. And finally, Glover suggests values, especially those linked with agency and identity, to guide how the boundaries of psychiatry should be drawn. Seamlessly blending philosophy, science, literature, and art, Alien Landscapes? is both a sustained defense of humanistic psychological interpretation and a compelling example of the rich and generous approach to mental life for which it argues.

Psychiatry --- Mental illness --- Psychiatric diagnosis --- Psychodiagnostics --- Decision making. --- Diagnosis. --- Mental Disorders. --- Mentally Ill Persons. --- Mentally Ill --- Mental Patients --- Ill, Mentally --- Mentally Ill Person --- Person, Mentally Ill --- Persons, Mentally Ill --- Mental Disorders --- Commitment of Mentally Ill --- Behavior Disorders --- Diagnosis, Psychiatric --- Mental Disorders, Severe --- Psychiatric Diagnosis --- Mental Illness --- Psychiatric Diseases --- Psychiatric Disorders --- Psychiatric Illness --- Illness, Mental --- Mental Disorder --- Mental Disorder, Severe --- Mental Illnesses --- Psychiatric Disease --- Psychiatric Disorder --- Psychiatric Illnesses --- Severe Mental Disorder --- Severe Mental Disorders --- Mentally Ill Persons --- Persons with Psychiatric Disorders.