Critiquing Personality Disorder - A Social Perspective

Through its exploration of service user and MHSWs' perspectives the book offers a social perspective on personality disorder and suggests ways of working to empower the person's response to traumatic experience.

About the author

Julia Warrener, PhD, is currently a Principal Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire employed as the Professional/Academic lead for Social Work. Julia continues to teach social policy and social thery on the BSc & MSc Social Work programmes. She qualified as a social worker in 1993 and has worked extensively with adults with mental health problems since 1995. In this time she developed a particular interest in personality disorder. She is also a researcher and committed to service user involvement in research and practice.  This book has evolved from qualitative research undertaken in the last 7 years which explored the experiences and perspectives of service users and mental health social workers on personality disorder. 

Summary

Through its exploration of service user and MHSWs’ perspectives the book offers a social perspective on personality disorder and suggests ways of working to empower the person’s response to traumatic experience.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Warrener, Julia (University of Hertfordshire) Warrener, Warrener Julia
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781909330818
• ISBN: 978-1-909330-81-8
• No. of pages: 134
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 246 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 250 g
• Series: Critical Approaches to Mental Health; Critical Approaches to Mental Health
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Care of the mentally ill, Care of people with mental health issues, mental health AMPH; personality disorder; bpd; schizophrenia