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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.
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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
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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.
