Reaching Out: The Psychology of Assertive Outreach

by Cupitt; Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780415454070
• ISBN10: 0415454077
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-09-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"Assertive outreach services have provided an overdue milieu for the development and creative delivery of psychological approaches to meeting the needs of people who experience severe and enduring mental distress. Caroline Cupitt and her colleagues have reflected upon their extensive experience of assertive outreach to capture the broad impact of these approaches from a range of stakeholder perspectives, whilst drawing upon a spectrum of psychological/therapeutic orientations."

Author Biography

Caroline Cupitt is a consultant clinical psychologist with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust specialising in assertive outreach. She has worked in assertive outreach since 1996, in both statutory and non-statutory settings, and is particularly interested in fostering psychological approaches

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Taking a psychological approach	p. 13
Psychological processes in engagement	p. 15
The Whole Team Approach: containment or chaos?	p. 43
Making assessment and outcomes meaningful	p. 64
Team Case Formulation	p. 95
Staff stress and burnout	p. 119
Applying models of psychological therapy	p. 143
A psychodynamic perspective	p. 145
Family and systemic work	p. 163
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy	p. 186
Community psychology	p. 207
Ethics and professional issues: the universal and the particular	p. 229
Conclusions	p. 248
Index	p. 251
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