Mental health care provision can be complex and the approach thecarer uses can have a detrimental effect on the health of theperson being cared for. Caring for Adults with MentalHealth Problems provides the reader with many examples ofthoughts, ideas and perspectives in a user-friendly, easilyaccessible format. The chapters are divided into discrete sectionsreflecting contemporary care approaches.
Reference to care in a range of primary and secondary caresettings is made throughout the book. Each chapter provides thereader with a clear and concise approach to health care,encouraging the reader to understand and delve deeper. Written bycontributors who are experienced clinicians and academics with manyyears of clinical and academic experience in various health caresettings, this text is based upon the principles of care, afoundation text that encourages the student to grow anddevelop.
Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems is apractice-based handbook or manual that has a sound evidence basis,and one that will challenge and encourage the student to develop aquestioning approach to care. The text is designed to be used as areference book by a variety of readers in either the clinicalsetting, classroom or at home, in statutory or non-statutorysurroundings.
Ian Peate