In-depth presentations of clinical cases from a variety of mental health populations and first person accounts from clients and caregivers illustrate the realities of this work.
Topics range from families in crisis to acute and chronic stages of mental illness.
Several chapters provide guidelines for dealing with constraints particular to managed care, mental health law, assessment and treatment interventions, and training and supervision for professional and paraprofessional home-based caregivers. Psychologists and social workers in home care will find this a particularly valuable resource. There is an honest effort to identity sources of failure and legal minefields for those who make housecalls. This is a book for nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors, volunteers - anyone who provides supportive or therapeutic services to clients in their homes. We appreciate your patronage.