1st Edition
Preventing Mental Illness in Practice
In this follow up to Preventing Mental Illness, Jennifer Newton describes real life examples of good practice in preventive mental health. Five areas covering the life span have been identified and promising strategies are described in detail: what is provided, how the target group is engaged, the resources required, management problems and evidence of effectiveness. Interviews with both clients and providers help to bring to life the descriptions as we learn how the support came to be needed and what benefits they themselves feel have been reaped.
These descriptive studies, together with criteria for judging the efficacy of interventions, provide an excellent resource for planners and policy makers. The book will also be invaluable to those who seek to implement preventive policies in their day to day work - lives - such as social workers, clinical psychologists, health visitors, community psychiatric nurses and general practitioners.
Biography
Jennifer Newton, PhD, is a research psychologist and was commissioned by MIND to review the prospects for prevention. Her first book, the highly successful Preventing Mental Illness, was a review of relevant research and received critical acclaim. She is currently Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
`The writing style is easy to read, and the book educational and informative. The views of clients and service providers used to illustrate case presentations are colourfully written and demonstrate the different ways in which prevention can be accomplished. This book will be a valuable tool in helping to identify the needs of vulnerable target groups, and to focus the way forward in developing good practice.' - Mental Health Nurisng
`This book adds perspective to a filed that needs to be broadened by adopting a commitment to inclusion rather than exclusion.' - Contemporary PsychologyThis book is very carefully argued with a balanced assessment of the scientific evidence, but this is leavened by some anecdotal material such as reports from patients of their experience of mental ill-health. ... What scope does the occupational physician have for preventing mental ill-health beyond the need to address workplace stress? Perhaps the best answer is to read the book and draw your own conclusions. The expenditure, and your effort, will be rewarded, and you will feel as if you have had a tutorial from an acknowledged expert who can guide you through the complexities of this area. - Ron McCaig, Occupational Medicine, June 2013
