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9780787914370

The Role of Organized Psychology in Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill New Directions for Mental Health Services, Number 88

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    9780787914370

  • ISBN10:

    0787914371

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-03-07
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

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Summary

Almost a million Americans who were or would have been hospitalized for serious mental illnesses during the past forty years can now be found living "in the community." Many of these persons are homeless or in jail or prison, but many others have experienced varying degrees of recovery. During this time organized psychology has been slow to meet the various needs of this vulnerable population. The contributors to this volume are among the psychologists who have been the most determined to bring the benefits of psychological science to persons with serious mental illnesses during this time. They have been working as academicians, researchers, and government employees. Some have seriously mentally ill family members or have themselves been diagnosed with mental illnesses as serious as schizophrenia. Here, they give their perspectives on how psychologists can better work to improve the lives of those in this vulnerable population.This is the 88th issue of the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Mental Health Services.

Author Biography

FREDERICK J. FRESE is an assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at the Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine and is serving as the first vice president of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

Table of Contents

Editor's Notes 1(5)
Frederick J. Frese, III
Treatment, Management, and Control: Improving Outcomes Through More Treatment and Less Control
5(12)
Richard H. Hunter
The employment of psychological methods can bring less controlling, more effective treatment to persons with serious mental illnesses, significantly enhancing their quality of life
Designing Work Experiences for Persons with Serious Mental Disorders
17(10)
Walter Erich Penk
Work is very important for persons with serious mental illnesses. Several successful government programs for helping recovering persons return to work activity are presented
On Giving Up on the Mental Health System
27(12)
Dale L. Johnson
Various organizations of professionals and advocates have been claiming to be working for improving conditions for persons with mental illnesses. This chapter overviews many of them, particularly stressing the value of consumer and family activities in this area
Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and Psychosis: Will Turf Battles Trump Treatment?
39(10)
Harriet P. Lefley
This chapter describes differences in training of psychiatrists and psychologists and how such training overlaps. Implications concerning psychologists obtaining privileges to prescribe medication are discussed
Relapse Prevention in Serious Mental Illness
49(12)
David P. Walling
Diane T. Marsh
Relapse prevention is an area that has not previously received much attention from professionals in this field. This chapter discusses various aspects of this important topic from psychologists' perspective
A Psychological View of People with Serious Mental Illness
61(12)
Robert Coursey
Jean Gearon
Mary A. Bradmiller
Jennifer Ritsher
Andy Keller
Peter Selby
These Authors draw on consumer experiences to construct a theoretical model for better understanding of persons with serious mental illness
Mothers with Serious Mental Illness
73(20)
Carol T. Mowbray
Daphna Oyserman
Deborah Bybee
The subject of mothering among women with serious mental illness has been relatively neglected for too long. This chapter stresses the value of psychological approaches to meeting the needs of these women and their families
Consumers/Survivors/Ex-Patients as Change Facilitators
93(10)
Ronald Bassman
The author describes his experiences being diagnosed and hospitalized for schizophrenia. He then describes how he and other recovering persons draw on their experiences as patients to help train other mental health workers
My Transforming Peak Experience Was Diagnosed as Paranoid Schizophrenia
103(10)
Al Siebert
A clinical psychologist reveals how a disillusioning, transformational experience was perceived as a psychotic breakdown and led to his being placed on the back ward of a VA psychiatric hospital
Index 113

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