Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems

Contributors vii

Acknowledgements xi

1 Introduction 1
Ian Peate and Sonya Chelvanayagam

2 History of Mental Health Care 7
Stephen Cloudsdale

3 Mad, Bad or Just Different 15
Alan Brownbill

4 Partnership Working in Mental Health Care 31
Paul Illingworth

5 Promoting Mental Health 53
Alan Brownbill and Sonya Chelvanayagam

6 Legal Matters 69
Soo Lee

7 Anxiety Disorders 87
Thomas Beary

8 Mood Disorders Including Self-harm and Suicide 103
Stephen Cloudsdale

9 Eating Disorders 117
Sonya Chelvanayagam

10 Dual Diagnosis: Substance Misuse and Mental Health Problems 131
Sue Hahn

11 Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia-type Disorders 145
Yvonne Mitchell

12 Personality Disorder 161
Brian Thomson

13 Dementias 177
Sue Hahn

14 Therapeutic Interventions 195
Soo Lee, Angela Edmonds and Clare Hubbard

Index 217