Valuable patient-centered ideas for treating mental illness Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by focusing on a patient’s personal feelings and hopes. In fact, these established methods can even have a dehumanizing and devaluing effect on a patient. Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services is a practical introduction and guide that provides practitioners an alternative way of thinking about and working with individuals who have been long-term users of the mental health system.
Key Features
- The tools of solution-focused brief practice
- Working with borderline personality disorder
- Adaptability and application to different contexts
- ‘Reading’ the client during discussion sessions
- Emphasising an individual’s healthy parts
- The role of community support
- Rethinking the medical model
Additional Information
Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services is a strength-based approach that utilises a client’s personal and social resources to help them find a satisfactory solution to the sources of their need for professional help. This book offers a unique approach that can be applied to those who have been in the mental health system for many years and may remain so. Accessible and usable, this guide explores the meaning of conventional diagnosis and treatment and how both can actually reinforce the client’s disability, chronicity, and sense of helplessness as a person.
