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A prescription for psychiatry : why we need a whole new approach to mental health and wellbeing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kinderman, Peter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Health Care Reform.
Mental Health Services > organization & administration.
Mental Disorders > therapy.
Mental Health.
Psychiatry > methods.
Health care reform.
Mental health services.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Mental illness.
Table of Contents:
  • Get the message right : a psychosocial model of mental health and well-being
  • Understand, don't diagnose
  • The drugs don't work, so offer real solutions
  • Promote health and well-being
  • Residential care, not medical coercion
  • Teamworking
  • Social and community services in local authority management
  • Can we afford it?
  • A manifesto for the reform of mental health and well-being services.