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This text is a guide to best practice in the management of community care for people with mental health problems. A major theme is how to balance the triangle of care that represents the needs and concerns of the user, carer (professional or family) and community. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of the task, this book aims to encourage reflective practice amongst staff, managers and policy-makers. Contributors invite the reader to think again about the conscious and unconscious dynamics and systems at work in different community care contexts, from the point of view of both practice and management and to consider: how community care has developed; the fundamental concepts of community care; how management is affected by practice; and how care systems are designed. The experienced practitioners who contribute not only challenge some of the assumptions prevalent in the field, but also present some tried-and-tested interventions used to enable users, staff and managers to function more effectively in community settings.; This book should be of interest to mental health practitioners, managers, social workers, policy-makers, organizational consultants and all those professionals who are committed to improving the quality of mental health services provided in the community.

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