New Thinking About Mental Health and Employment

by Grove; Bob

• ISBN13: 9781857756678
• ISBN10: 1857756673
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, UK. Text presents research and combines it with mental health service users' perspectives on the workplace. Discusses the assumption that people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems are unable to work unless or until recovery occurs. For practitioners. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
About the editors	vii
About the contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: rethinking employment and mental health	xiii
Bob Grove
Jenny Secker
Patience Seebohm
Part 1 Work with security when you can, security when you can't	1	(34)
Sheep and goats: new thinking on employability	3	(8)
Bob Grove
Helen Membrey
What do service users want?	11	(8)
Patience Seebohm
Jenny Secker
Working wounded	19	(10)
Mo Hutchison
What's kept me working?	29	(6)
Mary Nettle
Part 2 Hitting the bottom and getting back up	35	(86)
Getting back to work: what do we know about what works?	37	(14)
Justine Schneider
Employment support in the UK: where are we now?	51	(10)
Justine Schneider
Recovering a life: an in-depth look at employment support in the UK	61	(10)
Jenny Secker
Bob Grove
Helen Membrey
Putting the community back into community care	71	(14)
Patience Seebohm
A whole-system approach	85	(12)
Rachel Perkins
Miles Rinaldi
Unlocking Potential in Sheffield	97	(8)
Graham Cockshutt
Unlocking the potential of young black men	105	(8)
Paul Grey
What's worked for us	113	(8)
John Marshall
Jo Shenton
Richard Watts
Part 3 Avoiding the slippery slope	121	(32)
Getting off the slippery slope: what do we know about what works?	123	(10)
Tina Thomas
Jenny Secker
Getting off the slippery slope: an example from the UK	133	(10)
Tina Thomas
Jenny Secker
Early intervention: a hand up the slippery slope	143	(10)
Miles Rinaldi
Rachel Perkins
Conclusion: the end of all our exploring . . .	153	(6)
Bob Grove
Jenny Secker
Patience Seebohm
Index	159