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Teaching Mental Health This essential inter-professional volume is aimed at those teaching or training the mental health workforce of the future. Teaching Mental Health provides a contemporary ‘real-life’ perspective for those involved in the designing, planning and delivery of mental health education, as well as providing up-to-date information on a wide variety of teaching approaches. One of the first of its kind, this work aims to help those struggling to fulfil all that is required by the contemporary policy agenda by combining holistic advice with grounded educational theory and practical illustration. This innovative book successfully bridges the training gaps between health and social care institutions, higher education and the voluntary sector by presenting a range of psychologically informed approaches, including: Learning from service users Reflective practice E-learning Enquiry, problem-based and work-based learning Emotional intelligence Learning about social inclusion and recovery This volume is a valuable resource for a broad range of reader. Lecturers, trainers, workforce developers, human resources personnel, mental health nurses, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, independent training companies and practitioners will all find Teaching Mental Health vital reading.

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""The focus on active involvement of people who use mental health services make this book valuable for psychiatric rehabilitation trainers as well as for educators and policy makers in the more generic behavioral health field. Their message is a strong one, insisting that mental health trainers and educators have political and ethical responsibility as well as a practical obligation to teach recover-oriented practice."" (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Winter 2009) ""…provides the health professional with an insight into the concerns and questions that someone suffering with schizophrenia needs to consider…"" (Mental Health Today, March 2008) ""With twenty-nine chapters by over fifty authors it certainly brings together a wealth of experience"" (Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2008)

The focus on active involvement of people who use mental health services make this book valuable for psychiatric rehabilitation trainers as well as for educators and policy makers in the more generic behavioral health field. Their message is a strong one, insisting that mental health trainers and educators have political and ethical responsibility as well as a practical obligation to teach recover-oriented practice. (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Winter 2009) ...provides the health professional with an insight into the concerns and questions that someone suffering with schizophrenia needs to consider... (Mental Health Today, March 2008) With twenty-nine chapters by over fifty authors it certainly brings together a wealth of experience (Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2008)

The focus on active involvement of people who use mental health services make this book valuable for psychiatric rehabilitation trainers as well as for educators and policy makers in the more generic behavioral health field. Their message is a strong one, insisting that mental health trainers and educators have political and ethical responsibility as well as a practical obligation to teach recover-oriented practice. (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Winter 2009) ...provides the health professional with an insight into the concerns and questions that someone suffering with schizophrenia needs to consider... (Mental Health Today, March 2008) With twenty-nine chapters by over fifty authors it certainly brings together a wealth of experience (Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2008)

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Contributors Jill Anderson Russell Ashmore Jacqueline Atkinson Ian Baguley Janet H. Barker Thurstine Basset Peter Bates Alan Beadsmore Paul Bickerstaffe Chris Blackmore Alison Blank Jayne Breeze Hilary Burgess Neil Carver Ron Collier Esther Cook Joan Cook Carol Cooper Emmy van Deurzen Peter Ferns Allan Foreman Dawn Freshwater Bill Fulford Melissa Gunasena Sue Gunstone Ben Hannigan Mark Hayward Philip Houghton Peter Lindley Paul Linsley Liam MacGabhann Rachel Nickeas Madeline O’Carroll Clare Ockwell Alan Pringle Lorraine Rayner Julie Repper Sharon Roberts Brenda Rush Becky Shaw William Spence Chris Stevenson Theo Stickley Digby Tantam Yolanda Wasylko Steve Wood Kim Woodbridge Norman Young

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