{"product_id":"social-therapy-a-guide-to-social-support-interventions-for-mental-health-practitioners-paperback-softback-9780471987277","title":"Social Therapy; A Guide to Social Support Interventions for Mental Health Practitioners (Paperback \/ softback) 9780471987277","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSocial Therapy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Guide to Social Support Interventions for Mental Health Practitioners\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDerek L. Milne (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780471987277, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 February 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.8 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.425 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMany countries have reduced dramatically the proportion of patients in psychiatric hospitals in favour of community care. The demand for mental health care in the community keeps growing, and cannot be met by traditional, conventional services alone. Radical and innovative approaches are now being recommended, which include integrating services and professional groups, delegating responsibility to the operational level to much smaller areas, the local neighbourhood patches and developing social support systems in these patches, for example, co-ordinating and mobilising voluntary resources as an important element of community care. It is increasingly recognised that a range of non-professional therapists, practitioners in other professions and services that work in the community, can make an important and cost-effective contribution as partners in interventions for the management and treatment of mental health patients in their communities. This book provides a psychological perspective on this approach, and includes many models, methods and examples of how such innovative interventions can be stimulated and maintained. Derek Milne describes this social support approach as social therapy and shows that it is a process that formalises and builds upon the work that many professionals already undertake, which can be organised and integrated into interventions which are complementary to, and continuing on from, conventional mental health care in the community. All clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and community mental health professionals responsible for practice and policy will find this book a stimulating and practical guide to the development of an innovative approach to the challenge of expanding mental health care in the community. \"This is a timely and important book, well-written and well-researched, examining and clarifying social support, and re-conceptualising mental health professionals role in developing it as social therapy . Who better to do this than Derek Milne, one of the innovators of this work in the UK for the past two decades.\" Richard Velleman, University of Bath and Bath Mental Health Care Trust, UK\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTHE THEORETICAL, PRACTICAL AND PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT.\u003cbr\u003e Challenges and Opportunities for Professionals.\u003cbr\u003e UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL SUPPORT.\u003cbr\u003e Making Sense of Social Support.\u003cbr\u003e Measuring Social Support.\u003cbr\u003e IMPLEMENTING SOCIAL SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS.\u003cbr\u003e Clinical Interventions.\u003cbr\u003e Proximal Interventions.\u003cbr\u003e Distal Interventions.\u003cbr\u003e EVALUATING SOCIAL SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS.\u003cbr\u003e Evaluation of Social Support Interventions.\u003cbr\u003e Reflections and Implications.\u003cbr\u003e References.\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501141815576,"sku":"9780471987277","price":79.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780471987277.jpg?v=1786212256","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/social-therapy-a-guide-to-social-support-interventions-for-mental-health-practitioners-paperback-softback-9780471987277","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}