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This book presents cutting edge developments in Adult Mental Health through the presentation of creative and innovative applications of systemic theory to practice. At either end of the volume "bookends" invite current clients and staff to write about their experiences with the aim of bringing a powerful personal context into the work.
List of contents
Series Editors' Foreword , Foreword , Preface , Preface , Introduction , Outside in: A Stance Towards Theory , Psychiatric diagnosis and its dilemmas , Missing the point: the shy story of disappointment , Dancing between discourses , Constructing Alternative Positions , Coming to reasonable terms with our histories: narrative ideas, memory, and mental health , "Where the hell is everybody?" Leanna's resistance to armed robbery ?and negative social responses , Psychiatry, emotion, and the family: from expressed emotion to ?dialogical selves , Inside Out: An Appreciation of Practice , Space In Tight Corners: Practice-Based Examples , Open dialogues mobilise the resources of the family and the patient , Narrative psychiatry , Family needs, family solutions: developing family therapy in adult mental health services , The significance of dialogue to wellbeing: learning from social constructionist couple therapy , Privileging the Voice of the Client and Therapist , Narrative therapy with children of parents experiencing mental health difficulties , Hearing Voices: creating theatre from stories told by mental health service users , Beyond the spoken word , Voices from the frontline: "keeping on keeping on"-what matters to staff working in adult mental health services? , Afterword , Afterword
About the author
Sue McNab worked as a Systemic Psychotherapist in CAMHS in London before moving to Adult Mental Health services in Oxford Health NHS Trust ten years ago. She has also been attached to the Tavistock Centre and the Institute of Family Therapy as a trainer and supervisor on the Masters courses and currently works on the Advanced Diploma in the Supervision of Family and Systemic Psychotherapy at IFT. During a period of working on adolescent inpatient units, she became interested in mother blaming and shaming discourses and has written on this topic with her colleague and friend Ellie Kavner.Karen Partridge is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist currently working at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and in private practice. Her clinical work has taken place primarily in adult mental health but she has worked across the age range and across services. Her PhD research was an enquiry into organisational change in hospitals, and she completed her systemic training at the KCC Foundation where she worked as a tutor and Co-Director. She teaches and supervises professionals in a wide range of settings and is interested in consultation and training in staff groups and organisations, and in the interface between therapy, community and organisational interventions, action research and social justice.
Summary
This book presents cutting edge developments in Adult Mental Health through the presentation of creative and innovative applications of systemic theory to practice. At either end of the volume "bookends" invite current clients and staff to write about their experiences with the aim of bringing a powerful personal context into the work.
