Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare

Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention. It provides a synthesis of expert experience in the field as well as experiences of grass roots team practitioners.

This book makes a valuable contribution to the field by addressing in depth a wide range of topics critical to the delivery of assertive outreach services and providing practitioners with a manual into which they can feed lessons learned from other teams for continuous service improvement. This book is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in assertive outreach and community treatment approaches in mental health.

Special features:

• Provides a contemporary analysis of current service developments in the area

• Written by experts in the field

• Covers cross-cutting issues relevant to all areas of community mental health care

• Includes multiple perspectives: service user, researcher, service manager, commissioner, clinician and carer

• Covers both service delivery and therapeutic interventions

• Explores how the assertive outreach model is applied in the UK and Europe

Auteur

Caroline Williams is Company Director of User Friendly
Psychiatry Ltd and a Programme Director and Clinical Tutor at
Lancaster University. She was previously Assertive Outreach Manager
at Five Borough Partnership NHS Trust, Warrington, Merseyside and
has provided consultancy and training to Assertive Outreach teams
in England and Wales. Caroline was also a National Steering Group
Member of the National Forum for Assertive Outreach.

Mike Firn is Clinical Service Development Lead at South
West London & St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust. He is
also Chair of the National Forum for Assertive Outreach.

Simon Wharne is the South East Regional Representative
for the National Forum for Assertive Outreach and Team Leader for
the Hastings and Rother Outreach Team.

Dr Rob Macpherson is Consultant Psychiatrist in
rehabilitation and assertive outreach, based at Wotton Lawn
Hospital, Gloucester. He is also Training Programme Director for
general adult psychiatry, Severn Deanery.

Résumé

Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention. It provides a synthesis of expert experience in the field as well as experiences of grass roots team practitioners.

This book makes a valuable contribution to the field by addressing in depth a wide range of topics critical to the delivery of assertive outreach services and providing practitioners with a manual into which they can feed lessons learned from other teams for continuous service improvement. This book is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in assertive outreach and community treatment approaches in mental health.

Special features:

• Provides a contemporary analysis of current service developments in the area
• Written by experts in the field
• Covers cross-cutting issues relevant to all areas of community mental health care
• Includes multiple perspectives: service user, researcher, service manager, commissioner, clinician and carer
• Covers both service delivery and therapeutic interventions
• Explores how the assertive outreach model is applied in the UK and Europe

Contenu

Contributors.

Foreword (Kim T. Mueser, PhD).

Editors' preface (Caroline Williams, Mike Firn, Simon Wharne
and Rob Macpherson).

1 What does research tell us about assertive community
treatment? (Andrew Molodynski and Tom Burns).

2 Multi-professional working in assertive outreach teams
(Hannah Steer and Steve Onyett).

3 Fidelity and flexibility (Caroline Williams, Rob Macpherson
and Mike Firn).

4 Cognitive behaviour therapy for assertive outreach service
users (Robert Griffiths, Caroline Williams and Neil
Harris).

5 Dual diagnosis: putting policy into practice (Rory Allott,
Ian Wilson and Mike Firn).

6 Use of medication in assertive outreach (Rob Macpherson and
Tom Edwards).

7 Relatives', friends' and carers' experiences:
involvement and support (Simon Wharne, Sara Meddings, Tizzie
Coleman and Jo Coldwell).

8 Service user experience: engagement and recovery (Simon
Wharne and Kamal Spilsted).

9 Assertive outreach: stigmatising treatment or social
inclusion? (Simon Wharne).

10 Meeting the black and ethnic minority agenda (Simon Wharne
and Neil Sanyal).

11 Diversity and assertive outreach (Simon Wharne and
Caroline Williams).

12 Personal autonomy, leverage and coercion (Mike Firn and
Andrew Molodynski).

13 Targets, outcomes and service evaluation (Mike
Firn).

14 Funky mental health (Steve Morgan and Sue Jugon).

Index.