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A Prescription for PsychiatryTeamworking

A Prescription for Psychiatry: Teamworking [A genuinely psychosocial approach to service delivery would mean increased investment in the full range of professionals able to deliver therapeutic services that address people’s genuine problems and their root causes. The service would offer help with a spectrum of psycho-logical difficulties rather than only those deemed ‘mental health problems’. Nobody would be ‘diagnosed’. There would be a major emphasis on prevention. We need to be able to address such issues as divorce, marital difficulties, unemployment, stresses at work, financial difficulties, illnesses in family members, crime (both as a victim and as a perpetrator, when caught up in the criminal justice system), assaults, bullying, and childhood abuse. Clearly we need to offer psychological therapies, because we know that the way that people make sense of and respond to events is important, and the opportunity to talk through what has happened and how it has affected us is vital. But we also need to offer much more practical responses. As Anne Cooke put it: ‘It’s no good just mopping the floor and leaving the tap running’. So mental health and well-being services should need to work with the criminal justice agencies to ensure both protection and justice — investigating and preventing assaults. Because marital separation is a major source of emotional stress, we should ensure that there is sufficient support for people going through separation or marital difficulties, such as mediation services, support for single parents, and practical, legal and emotional support for people in difficulty in their relationships.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Prescription for PsychiatryTeamworking

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-137-40870-9
Pages
144 –155
DOI
10.1057/9781137408716_7
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Abstract

[A genuinely psychosocial approach to service delivery would mean increased investment in the full range of professionals able to deliver therapeutic services that address people’s genuine problems and their root causes. The service would offer help with a spectrum of psycho-logical difficulties rather than only those deemed ‘mental health problems’. Nobody would be ‘diagnosed’. There would be a major emphasis on prevention. We need to be able to address such issues as divorce, marital difficulties, unemployment, stresses at work, financial difficulties, illnesses in family members, crime (both as a victim and as a perpetrator, when caught up in the criminal justice system), assaults, bullying, and childhood abuse. Clearly we need to offer psychological therapies, because we know that the way that people make sense of and respond to events is important, and the opportunity to talk through what has happened and how it has affected us is vital. But we also need to offer much more practical responses. As Anne Cooke put it: ‘It’s no good just mopping the floor and leaving the tap running’. So mental health and well-being services should need to work with the criminal justice agencies to ensure both protection and justice — investigating and preventing assaults. Because marital separation is a major source of emotional stress, we should ensure that there is sufficient support for people going through separation or marital difficulties, such as mediation services, support for single parents, and practical, legal and emotional support for people in difficulty in their relationships.]

Published: Oct 24, 2015

Keywords: Mental Health; Mental Health Service; Mental Health Problem; Mental Health Care; Clinical Psychologist

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