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Policy, Practice and Law
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Main description:

Unique new book providing an overview and critical analysis of developments in Irish mental health policy, practice and law from 1945 to the present day, in the context of key emerging theoretical concepts.

Written by leaders in the field, the book is presented in three distinct sections, which examine:

The context for mental health care and support in 21st-century Ireland

Emerging developments in mental health service delivery and law

The implications of current trends for mental health policy, practice and law in Ireland in the future.

Addresses key issues relating to recent changes in approaches to mental health care and implications for mental health practitioners, such as:

The shifting discourse around conceptions and treatment of mental distress

The move from expert-led care to recovery-orientated, partnership-based support

The challenge posed to service development by minority and marginalised groups

The changing interface between the legal and mental health care systems

The complexity of economic evaluation of mental health services

The paradox of mental health service provision in a risk-averse society.

Reviews the Mental Health Act 2001, the Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Irish Government's mental health policy, A Vision for Change.

Presents an invaluable resource, based on recent academic and informally published literature, in the field of mental health in Ireland.

Written For:

Undergraduate and postgraduate students in mental health nursing, psychology, social work, occupational therapy and psychiatry

Also suitable for students of medicine, social policy, disability studies, speech and language therapy and anyone with an interest in mental health

'Overall this book is an excellent, indispensable resource which is based on current academic and published literature. I would most definitely recommend [it] to both students and practitioners. [It] is an insightful read and a great contribution to Irish knowledge.'

Brid Joy, The Irish Social Worker


Contents:

Foreword

Eddie Molloy

Foreword

Ivor Browne

Contributors' Profiles

Section 1: Context for Mental Health Service Delivery in 21st-century Ireland

1. Introduction: Struggle and contestation in the field of mental health

Agnes Higgins and Shari McDaid

2. Mental hospital institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation in Ireland

Damien Brennan

3. Medicalisation and professionalisation of mental health service delivery

Liam Mac Gabhann

4. Shadow lives: Social exclusion of and discrimination against people with experience of mental or emotional distress

Shari McDaid

Section 2: Emerging Developments in Response to Mental Distress

5. Recovery and the recovery ethos: challenges and possibilities

Agnes Higgins and Paddy McGowan

6. Empowerment and the emergence of an Irish user/survivor movement

Liz Brosnan

7. Peer support and mutual help as a means to recovery

Dr Mike Watts

8. The paradoxical role of families in mental health

Shari McDaid and Agnes Higgins

9. Mental health needs of minority ethnic communities in Ireland: contexts and controversies

Rebecca Murphy and Gerry Leavey

10. 'A state of semi-lunacy'? The marginal status of drinking problems within the Irish mental health system

Shane Butler

11. The interface between mental health and the criminal justice system: legal and policy perspectives

Darius Whelan and Michael Brennan

Section 3: Emerging Issues and Implicationsfor the Future

12. Current trends in the economics of mental health care in Ireland

Brendan Kennelly

13. Emerging issues in the law within a changing human rights framework

Mary Keys

14. Risk and the risk society: the impact on the mental health services

Michael Nash, Jo Murphy-Lawless and Marina Bowe

15. Challenging the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry in psychiatry

David Healy

16. Into the future: promoting mental health and democratising support for people 1with mental health problems

Agnes Higgins, Shari McDaid and Paddy McGowan


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780717159802
Publisher: Gill Education
Publication date: April, 2014
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 156.00 x 234.00 x 17.00
Weight: 494g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Counselling & Therapy

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