Social Therapy

Social Therapy
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288
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9780471987277
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Книги издательства Willey

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Many countries have reduced dramatically the proportion of patients in psychiatric hospitals in favour of community care. The demand for mental health care in the community keeps growing, and cannot be met by traditional, conventional services alone. Radical and innovative approaches are now being recommended, which include integrating services and professional groups, delegating responsibility to the operational level to much smaller areas, the local neighbourhood patches and developing social support systems in these patches, for example, co–ordinating and mobilising voluntary resources as an important element of community care. It is increasingly recognised that a range of non–professional therapists, practitioners in other professions and services that work in the community, can make an important and cost–effective contributionas partners in interventions for the management and treatment of mental health patients in their communities. This book provides a psychological...

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