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Abstract
"Mental Health Practice: a guide to compassionate care" examines the relationship between mental health professionals and people using services during the recovery process. The disabling distress experienced by many people with mental health problems is viewed from a holistic, person-centred perspective with the road to recovery being seen as the result of true collaboration between professionals and service users.
- The first in-depth exploration of the intentional use of self in mental health care and its significance in the recovery journey, extensively updated
- New content on action research, eco-psychology and organisational culture
- Story boxes illustrating key themes in compassionate care
- Self-enquiry boxes engaging readers in reflective practice
- A primer on humanistic psychology and its relevance to mental health care
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Cover | ||
| Mental Health Practice: A Guide to Compassionate Care | ii | ||
| Copyright Page | iii | ||
| Dedication | v | ||
| Preface to the first edition | ix | ||
| Preface to the second edition | xiii | ||
| Part 1: Meaning and behaviour | 1 | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1. The nature of humandistress | 5 | ||
| The fully functioning self | 8 | ||
| Dissenting voices | 9 | ||
| Stress, vulnerability and overwhelm | 10 | ||
| The quest for sanity | 13 | ||
| Chapter 2. Social exclusion in the experience of distress | 17 | ||
| Stigma, discrimination and social exclusion | 17 | ||
| Poverty | 18 | ||
| Employment | 19 | ||
| Housing | 21 | ||
| Chapter 3. Transcultural issues in the experience of distress | 23 | ||
| Chapter 4. Gender issues in the experience of distress | 27 | ||
| The experience of women | 27 | ||
| The experience of men | 31 | ||
| Chapter 5. Creative solutions to crisis | 33 | ||
| Early signs monitoring | 35 | ||
| Crisis services | 38 | ||
| Crisis management | 39 | ||
| Early intervention | 43 | ||
| Chapter 6. Working with risk | 45 | ||
| Dealing with anger and hostile behaviour | 48 | ||
| Responding to self-harm and suicidal behaviour | 53 | ||
| Chapter 7. A person-centred approach to assessment | 55 | ||
| Suggestions for improving listening | 57 | ||
| Assessment guide | 59 | ||
| Chapter 8. Creating pathways to recovery | 67 | ||
| Entrapment | 68 | ||
| A recovery culture | 70 | ||
| The ways to recovery | 74 | ||
| Wounded healers | 83 | ||
| Chapter 9. Humanistic approaches to helping and healing | 85 | ||
| People are OK | 89 | ||
| People can discover their own meaning | 90 | ||
| People know what they need | 93 | ||
| People can take responsibility for themselves | 99 | ||
| Part 2: The working alliance | 103 | ||
| Introduction | 103 | ||
| Chapter 10. Beginnings and the working alliance | 105 | ||
| Chapter 11. A framework for the working alliance | 109 | ||
| Helping clients identify and clarify needs and problems | 110 | ||
| Creating a better future | 113 | ||
| Creating strategies to move forward | 117 | ||
| Chapter 12. The working alliance as an enabling relationship | 121 | ||
| Empowerment | 123 | ||
| Chapter 13. The working alliance with families and carers | 129 | ||
| Reducing negativity | 133 | ||
| Reducing over-solicitous care | 133 | ||
| Creative problem management | 134 | ||
| Reducing the emotional labour of caring | 137 | ||
| Enhancing coping and social functioning | 139 | ||
| Chapter 14. Reluctance, resistance and disengagement | 145 | ||
| Strengths approach to engagement and recovery | 148 | ||
| Ethics of engagement | 150 | ||
| Chapter 15. Endings and the working alliance | 157 | ||
| Part 3: The therapeutic use of self | 159 | ||
| Introduction | 159 | ||
| Chapter 16. The dynamics of therapeutic care | 161 | ||
| Counter-transference | 164 | ||
| Chapter 17. Intentional use of self in developmentally needed or reparative relationships | 167 | ||
| Chapter 18. Person-to-person relationships | 177 | ||
| Genuineness as a way of being | 180 | ||
| The ethics of practitioners’ self-disclosure | 181 | ||
| Acceptance as a way of being | 183 | ||
| Empathy as a way of being | 184 | ||
| An intuitive way of being | 186 | ||
| The neglected core conditions | 188 | ||
| The ethics of involvement | 191 | ||
| The ethics of sexuality | 192 | ||
| Chapter 19. The spiritual dimension of therapeutic care | 195 | ||
| Spiritual care | 196 | ||
| Chapter 20. The shadow side of helping | 205 | ||
| Part 4: Personal management | 211 | ||
| Introduction | 211 | ||
| Chapter 21. Personal development in professional education | 213 | ||
| Self-awareness | 215 | ||
| Self-esteem | 216 | ||
| Research | 219 | ||
| Chapter 22. Taking care of ourselves | 227 | ||
| Some strategies for managing stress | 233 | ||
| Chapter 23. Being a reflective practitioner | 235 | ||
| The quest for a learning culture | 237 | ||
| Being a supervisee | 238 | ||
| The role of supervisor | 240 | ||
| Appendix: A brief introduction to humanistic psychology | 245 | ||
| Historical background | 245 | ||
| Humanistic therapy | 246 | ||
| Humanistic groups | 247 | ||
| Education | 248 | ||
| Organisational development | 248 | ||
| Research | 249 | ||
| Humanistic ideas – a subversive paradigm | 249 | ||
| References | 257 | ||
| Index | 265 |