Social Therapy: A Guide to Social Support Interventions for Mental Health Practitioners

by Derek L. Milne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471987271
• ISBN13: 9780471987277
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"