Mental Health Services & Policy

This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their parents. Assessing Children in the Community presents a semi-structured form of collaborative psychologi..

This book addresses the assessessment of parents and children of struggling families where there are issues of neglect or harm, and separating parents are contesting arrangements for their children’s care...

Originally published in 1987, this book reviews the state of evaluative research of mental health programmes at the time, showing how practices can be evaluated and hence improved...

Originally published in 1987, this book reviews the state of evaluative research of mental health programmes at the time, showing how practices can be evaluated and hence improved...

Foundations of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry documents the development of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry from its inception to the present, and draws on contributions from philosophy, physiology, psychoanalysis, epidemiology and other disciplines to define the broad scope of the field...

Managing Fear: The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment examines the growing use of forensic risk assessment as it relates to preventive detention and supervision policies for high-risk offenders, individuals with severe mental illnesses, and suspected terrorists...

Managing Fear: The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment examines the growing use of forensic risk assessment as it relates to preventive detention and supervision policies for high-risk offenders, individuals with severe mental illnesses, and suspected terrorists...

More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex disorders. This book outlines how services can effectively detect, prevent, and treat their mental health dif..

This book identifies aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children’s development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively...

This book identifies aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children’s development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively...

This book, written for mental health professionals, presents a fresh new alternative to patient-centred care in the form of patient-perspective care – a highly innovative, evidence-based approach that is a more pragmatic and achievable ethos for effective and efficient health service provision...

This book, written for mental health professionals, presents a fresh new alternative to patient-centred care in the form of patient-perspective care – a highly innovative, evidence-based approach that is a more pragmatic and achievable ethos for effective and efficient health service provision...