Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services: "I Am More Than My Label" (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780789027948)

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. Through interviews, case studies, and actual client testimony, this valuable text demonstrates the most effective ways to establish patient-centered conversations that forge collaborative relationships, realize strengths, and use them to move toward healing.

Author: Joel K. Simon, Thorana S. Nelson
ISBN-10: 0789027941
ISBN-13: 9780789027948
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2007
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.79h x 6.86w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2008 pg. 102