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With mental health increasingly being recognised as crucial for a healthy and productive nation, and a vital component in the regeneration of communities, the current reality and future possibilities for social work in mental health services are becoming clearer. This is a new edition of Peter Gilbert's The Value of Everything: Social Work and its Importance in the Field of Mental Health (RHP, 2003), which was acclaimed: 'A clear guide, and useful tool for increasing understanding between all stakeholder groups in mental health' - Mental Health Today . 'The author's breadth of knowledge makes the book accessible and informative at all levels of enquiry the contribution that social work skills make to service users is apparent throughout' - Community Care. 'The service user and carer perspective is featured heavily, and their accounts and those of mental health staff are used liberally to illustrate why the social work role will continue to be of central importance insightful and interesting' - Care & Health . This new edition maintains the focus on the values that social work espouses as a profession, and its value in current mental health services. New chapters have been added around social inclusion; personalisation; research; spirituality; the role of the social worker following new mental health legislation in 2005 and 2007; and an overview of policy up to the current time. It: celebrates and promotes multi-disciplinary work and the integration of perspectives; sets social work as a major contributor to a truly whole-person and whole-systems approach to mental health; values those who use mental health services as people with their own unique strengths, needs and experiences; addresses issues of identity and equality; provides clear theoretical frameworks for understanding barriers to developing those relationships that enable social workers to recognise the capacities of service users; discusses the merits of different models for understanding and working with mental or emotional distress; uses research and ideas drawn from sociology, psychiatry, psychology and even economics to emphasise how social work is able to utilise the best of everything that is available for the service users and carers benefit. Timely, it considers the value of social work in light of what users and carers want from services; the value base of the new policies of reform; the role of the social worker in different settings; and ways of taking these values and skills into these new settings. It will boost the confidence of social workers by reinforcing the tremendous resource that they are to people in the greatest need in our society; and will help partner professions and agencies value the contribution that social work can bring.

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Author:   Peter Gilbert
Publisher:   Russell House Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Russell House Publishing Ltd
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9781905541607

ISBN 10:   1905541600
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 April 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword By Hari Sewell. Introduction. No health without mental health. Thinking about professional boundaries in an inclusive society By Peter Bates, Head of Mental Health and Community Inclusion, NDTi, and Visiting Research Fellow, Staffordshire University The roots of social policy. Mental health A C at the heart of reform By Michael Clark, Research Manager with the National Mental Health Development Unit and NHS West Midlands Regional Development Centre, & Peter Gilbert. Society is us! A C the service user AZs and carer AZs view. Personalisation A C choice and control: the issues By Sarah Carr, Senior Research Analyst at the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and Visiting Research Fellow, Staffordshire University. The skilled helper A C the role of the social worker. The vital equilibrium A C social work and the law By Greg Slay, Practice Development Manager A C Mental Health and Lead for the Approved Mental Health Professional Service at West Sussex County Council. Spirituality A C the (R)forgotten AZ dimension? Research for mental health social work practice By Nick Gould, Professor of Social Work, University of Bath. The value of social work in management and leadership. Looking to the future. References and further reading.

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Peter Gilbert is Professor of Social Work and Spirituality at Staffordshire University, and Visiting Professor with both Birmingham and Solihull NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Worcester. Peter was the NIMHE Project Lead on Spirituality from its inception to 31st March 2009, and now works for the National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum. He has recently been appointed Chair of the National Development Team for Inclusion. Peter is a member of the National Mental Health Development Unit AZs Equalities Programme Board. A former Director of Social Services for Worcestershire, Peter is a registered Social Worker with 13 years of direct practice. Between 2003 and 2006 he was NIMHE/SCIE Fellow in Social Care with Professor Nick Gould, and has also been Social Care Advisor to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Having experienced an episode of depression in 2000/1 Peter is very committed to a holistic and person-centred approach. He is author of Leadership: Being Effective and Remaining Human (RHP, 2005), and co-edited: Spirituality, Values and Mental Health: Jewels for the Journey, (JKP, 2007).

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