Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation

by King, Robert; Lloyd, Chris; Meehan, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781405133081
• ISBN10: 1405133082
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation is designed as a clinical handbook for practitioners in the field of mental health. It recognises the wide-ranging impact of mental illness and its ramifications on daily life. The book promotes a recovery model of psychosocial rehabilitation and aims to empower clinicians to engage their clients in tailored rehabilitation plans. The authors distil relevant evidence from the literature, but the focus is on the clinical setting. Coverage includes the service environment, assessment, maintaining recovery-focussed therapeutic relationships, the role of pharmacotherapy, intensive case management and vocational rehabilitation.

Author Biography

Robert King leads a multidisciplinary Graduate Mental Health programme and Chris Lloyd is Senior Lecturer for the Division of Occupational Therapy, both at the University of Queensland, Australia. Tom Meehan is also affiliated with the University of Queensland and heads a Research Unit at The Park, Centre for Mental Health in Brisbane.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. iv
Key concepts and definitions	p. 1
Major mental illness and its impact	p. 12
Lived experience perspectives	p. 28
The framework for psychosocial rehabilitation: bringing it into focus	p. 43
Building and maintaining a recovery focused therapeutic relationship	p. 57
Individual assessment and the development of a collaborative rehabilitation plan	p. 71
Integrating psychosocial rehabilitation and pharmacotherapy	p. 87
Family psychoeducation	p. 102
Intensive case management in psychosocial rehabilitation	p. 115
Community participation	p. 129
Vocational rehabilitation	p. 143
Mental illness and substance misuse	p. 159
Early intervention, relapse prevention and promotion of healthy lifestyles	p. 177
Service evaluation	p. 194
The wellbeing and professional development of the psychosocial rehabilitation practitioner	p. 210
Index	p. 225
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