Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention. It provides a synthesis of expert experience in the field as well as experiences of grass roots team practitioners.
This book makes a valuable contribution to the field by addressing in depth a wide range of topics critical to the delivery of assertive outreach services and providing practitioners with a manual into which they can feed lessons learned from other teams for continuous service improvement. This book is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in assertive outreach and community treatment approaches in mental health.
Special features:
Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention. It provides a synthesis of expert experience in the field as well as experiences of grass roots team practitioners.
This book makes a valuable contribution to the field by addressing in depth a wide range of topics critical to the delivery of assertive outreach services and providing practitioners with a manual into which they can feed lessons learned from other teams for continuous service improvement. This book is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in assertive outreach and community treatment approaches in mental health.
Special features:
Contributors.
Foreword (Kim T. Mueser, PhD).
Editors' preface (Caroline Williams, Mike Firn, Simon Wharne and Rob Macpherson).
1 What does research tell us about assertive community treatment? (Andrew Molodynski and Tom Burns).
2 Multi-professional working in assertive outreach teams (Hannah Steer and Steve Onyett).
3 Fidelity and flexibility (Caroline Williams, Rob Macpherson and Mike Firn).
4 Cognitive behaviour therapy for assertive outreach service users (Robert Griffiths, Caroline Williams and Neil Harris).
5 Dual diagnosis: putting policy into practice (Rory Allott, Ian Wilson and Mike Firn).
6 Use of medication in assertive outreach (Rob Macpherson and Tom Edwards).
7 Relatives', friends’ and carers' experiences: involvement and support (Simon Wharne, Sara Meddings, Tizzie Coleman and Jo Coldwell).
8 Service user experience: engagement and recovery (Simon Wharne and Kamal Spilsted).
9 Assertive outreach: stigmatising treatment or social inclusion? (Simon Wharne).
10 Meeting the black and ethnic minority agenda (Simon Wharne and Neil Sanyal).
11 Diversity and assertive outreach (Simon Wharne and Caroline Williams).
12 Personal autonomy, leverage and coercion (Mike Firn and Andrew Molodynski).
13 Targets, outcomes and service evaluation (Mike Firn).
14 Funky mental health (Steve Morgan and Sue Jugon).
Index.
Caroline Williams is Company Director of User FriendlyPsychiatry Ltd and a Programme Director and Clinical Tutor atLancaster University. She was previously Assertive Outreach Managerat Five Borough Partnership NHS Trust, Warrington, Merseyside andhas provided consultancy and training to Assertive Outreach teamsin England and Wales. Caroline was also a National Steering GroupMember of the National Forum for Assertive Outreach. Mike Firn is Clinical Service Development Lead at SouthWest London & St. George s Mental Health NHS Trust. He isalso Chair of the National Forum for Assertive Outreach. Simon Wharne is the South East Regional Representativefor the National Forum for Assertive Outreach and Team Leader forthe Hastings and Rother Outreach Team. Dr Rob Macpherson is Consultant Psychiatrist inrehabilitation and assertive outreach, based at Wotton LawnHospital, Gloucester. He is also Training Programme Director forgeneral adult psychiatry, Severn Deanery.
“In addition to providing information for individuals providing assertive outreach services or interested in the nature of these services, how these services are delivered, and their outcomes, this book also looks at a variety of ways to conceptualize the goals of these services and the perspectives of those who receive them.” (Doody’s, 23 March 2012)
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