Community-Based Mental Healthcare for Psychosis - From Homelessness to Recovery and Continued In-Home Support

This eye-opening book explores the need for, and how to successfully organize, community mental health teams that provide in-home care and treatment for people experiencing mental health difficulties, particularly those suffering with psychosis.

List of contents

Introduction  1. On Model Railways  2. Homeless and in Mental Ill Health  3. Care in the Community: Recovery  4. Care in the Community: Quartermaking  5. Conclusion: Psychiatry in Recovery

About the author

Peter Dierinck has worked since 1987 within psychiatric institutions in Belgium, for the most part in Psychiatrisch centrum Gent-Sleidinge on a ward for homeless people. Since 2018 he has also worked for vzw Psyche on a Flemish project 'Quartermaking', a method for inclusion in the community.
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Summary

This eye-opening book explores the need for, and how to successfully organize, community mental health teams that provide in-home care and treatment for people experiencing mental health difficulties, particularly those suffering with psychosis.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Dierinck
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032114644
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3211464-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system