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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Family Matters focuses on the research and clinical experiences which bridge the traditional gap between child and adult mental heath. The book is substantial but not heavy-going. Its twenty-two chapters look at the complex interfaces between child and adult mental health from every angle. It covers 'continuities' between childhood disorders into adulthood, children's experience of major psychiatric disorder in their parent but also the impact of children on their parents. It considers the children of mothers with eating disorders and the impact of parental anxiety disorder on children. Family Matters, though, not only represents an excellent review of relevant literature, but includes… Read more
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2003 saw the publication of Steve Onyett's Teamworking in mental health. This new volume concentrates less on team processes and more on the purpose of different teams. Despite the title, Community Mental Health Teams concerns itself, not only with the generic CMHT, but also with the so-called 'functional CMHTs' working in assertive outreach, early intervention, crisis resolution and home treatment. Tom Burns (Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University) begins with an overview of the origins of community psychiatry, emphasising the importance of therapeutic communities in the development of the CMHT ethos. He then moves on to look at modern multidisciplinary mental health… Read more
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
As student nurses we were told that it was essential for mental health nurses to have an understanding of sociology but, beyond that, no mention was ever made of the subject. This new book, one of a Sociology and nursing practice series, may finally give the discipline the prominence it deserves among nurses, as well as helping us to understand and explore the social processes which support and limit individual opportunities (including our own). In these days of an allegedly classless Britain we cannot afford to ignore questions of class and inequality. The book explores why it should be that poorer people continue to have poorer health and higher mortality than those in the higher… Read more
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