Families as Allies in Treatment of the Mentally Ill: New Directions for Mental Health Professionals

by Harriet P. Lefley

Book Overview

The outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, and organized by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, this volume promotes the modification of clinical education so that families of the mentally ill will be viewed as allied rather than adversaries by new generations of professionals. Based on the historical fact that mental health professionals have traditionally related to families of the mentally ill only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880482982
• ISBN13: 9780880482981
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
• Length: 284 Pages
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher