Integration of Mental Health Social Work and the Nhs

Informationen zum Autor Daisy has worked within social care for twelve years! both within voluntary and statutory sector organisations. Her areas of practice include mental health and substance misuse. Since 2003 she has been employed by NHS mental health partnership trusts in the northern and south eastern regions and has held social work leadership roles within both of these area! with emphasis on mental health act and mental capacity practice development and safeguarding vulnerable adult arrangements. Klappentext Examines how successful the integration of mental health services within the NHS has been from a social care perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Setting the scene: the past, the present and possible futures Government Direction: A policy framework Social Work as an Identity within Mental Health Services The social perspective versus the medical perspective: have we found a middle ground? Ownership and the secondment of social work staff Wholesale change? Working in partnership Health & social care budgets: will the fog ever lift? Integrated services: where do the service users fit in? Approved Mental Health Professionals: a Trojan horse The experience of substance misuse: a word from the voluntary sector From the other angle: a word from health The integration agenda: what have we learnt so far?

Product details

• Authors: Daisy Bogg
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2008
• EAN: 9781844451500
• ISBN: 978-1-84445-150-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system