A Prescription for Psychiatry [electronic resource] : Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing /
Kinderman, P.author.
This is a manifesto for an entirely new approach to psychiatric care; one that truly offers care rather than coercion, therapy rather than medication, and a return to the common sense appreciation that distress is usually an understandable reaction to life's challenges.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Disease Model of Mental Health: A System in Crisis; 1 Get the Message Right: A Psychosocial Model of Mental Health and Well-being; 2 Understand, Don't Diagnose; 3 The Drugs Don't Work ... So Offer Real Solutions; 4 Promote Health and Well-being; 5 Residential Care ... Not Medical Coercion; 6 Teamworking; 7 Social and Community Services in Local Authority Management; 8 Can We Afford It?; 9 A Manifesto for the Reform of Mental Health and Well-being Services; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is a manifesto for an entirely new approach to psychiatric care; one that truly offers care rather than coercion, therapy rather than medication, and a return to the common sense appreciation that distress is usually an understandable reaction to life's challenges.
Clinical psychology.
Psychiatry.
Psychotherapy   .
Clinical Psychology.
Psychiatry.
Psychotherapy.