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Working with Schizophrenia: A Needs Based Approach.

ISBN-13: 9781853022425
Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
By Gwen Howe
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Local release date: 13/02/1988
Format: Paperback 200 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Psychology [JM]

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After 15 years in psychiatric social work, including experience of working with the mental health law, Gwen Howe went on in 1989 to pioneer a centre for individuals with serious mental illness which she ran until 1994. She has written several books, including Working with Schizophrenia and Getting into the System, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Part 1 Schizophrenia - not a myth!: our response - a mad hatter's tea party; reality for sufferers; reality for families. Part 2 Identifying needs: priorities for sufferers; priorities for families and other carers; how to meet these needs. Part 3 A needs based approach: explanations; effective support; reality testing and other strategies; a special kind of groupwork; enabling resources; promoting self-advocacy. Part 4 Conclusions: a needs based package; the way forward.

`wideranging and readable...I warmly commend Gwen Howe's book...an essential handbook for families of schizophrenia sufferers.' -NSF Today

`This is a practical book, written without jargon, and without pretension, and based on the author's extensive working experience. It emphasises the importance of listening to sufferers and their relatives, respecting emotional reactions and their formulations of their difficulties, and helping them to reach their own solutions. It is underscored by a passionate belief in human rights, and in the potential of people with schizophrenia to attain a better quality of life than many find possible. The book will be valuable to many people for the detailed information it contains, the understanding of human dilemmas which it conveys, and the humanity with which it is written. It should be standard reading for professionals in the mental health services. Voluntary workers and families trying to help a person with schizophrenia will find in it much that they need to know; and many sufferers will find it a source of support and assistance, as they try to cope with their own problems, and the day-to-day stresses of their lives.'

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