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Title

Preventing mental illness in practice / Jennifer Newton.

Author

Newton, Jennifer, 1953-

Publication

London ; New York : Tavistock/Routledge, 1992.

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Description

viii, 226 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Jennifer Newton, author of the successful Preventing Mental Illness (Routledge, 1989) completes her study for MIND in this investigation of what constitutes good practice in the field of preventative mental health care.

Subject

• Mental Disorders > prevention & control
• Mental health services
• Mental illness > Prevention
• Preventive Psychiatry
• Preventive health services
• United Kingdom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Targeting vulnerable individuals. Helping people to take control over their own lives. Making maximum use of natural, voluntary and community support networks -- Disease models and transitionary periods. Schizophrenia. Causes of depression: the Bedford College Model. The significance of the research. Opportunities for prevention. A note about prevention -- 1. Preventive work with under-fives and their families. Prediction and early identification of parenting difficulties, abuse and neglect. Optimum support. A brief outline of some innovative projects and services. The Child Development Programme. Befriending mothers: Newpin -- 2. Adolescence to independence. Possibilities for early preventive work by schools. Preventive work after school-leaving age. Young people leaving care: some statistics. Optimum support. Minimising risk: 1 -- Support during the transition to independence: Bradford After-Care Team. Minimising risk: 2 -- Support during and after pregnancy. St. Michael's Hostels, South London. Related issues: education -- 3. Supporting people through crises. Detecting psychiatric symptoms in general practice. What sort of help is needed by patients dealing with crisis? Access to resources -- 4. Preventing relapse in schizophrenia. Preventive interventions with sufferers of schizophrenia and their families: the research. Preventive interventions with people treated for schizophrenia and their families: the practice. A support group for those living with someone with schizophrenia. A comprehensive prevention programme as a component of a mental illness treatment service: West Birmingham -- 5. Preventing mental illness among elderly persons. The development of mental illness in old age. Focus of this chapter. Frailty, support and independence. Hawthorne House. The Kent/Gateshead Community Care Scheme -- Conclusions: Prospects, pitfalls and possibilities. Factors influencing effectiveness. Possibilities: lessons about method.

ISBN

0415048931

LCCN

^^^91018530^

OCLC

23690944

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library