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Dual Diagnosis in Context
Dual Diagnosis: Practice in Context is a practical evidence-based guide for practitioners working in multi-disciplinary mental health and substance misuse service settings. Divided into three sections, this comprehensive and international text first explores the contemporary contextual issues surrounding the subject area. It then goes on to review dual diagnosis in some of the ‘special’ populations (including people diagnosed with personality disorders, women, young people, and older adults) and contemporary issues (e.g. crystal methamphetamine and mental health).
Part three reviews the development of international service responses to dual diagnosis and discusses the development and commissioning of service models, research and practice development. The text concludes with a chapter outlining priorities for the development of interventions, service approaches, research and education.
KEY FEATURES:
A authoritative in-depth review of both theoretical, clinical and policy issues within a single text
Draws together a range of established contributors from a variety of disciplines, including mental health nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and psychiatrists
International in focus, with contributors from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia
LikeEmergency Care of Children and Young People
Karen Cleaer and Janet Webb (Editors)
Jean Shepherd and Olive McKeown
Chapter 5 entitled:
Meeting the Specific Needs of Young People attending the A&E Department. This chapter explores emergency treatment of substance misuse, teenage pregnancy and self-ham
Overview of book:
Children and young people account for a quarter of all patients treated in emergency departments in the UK, with three million children attending emergency departments every year. Emergency Care of Children and Young People prepares practitioners for the challenges of caring for children in emergency departments. Children requiring emergency care have unique and differing needs and may not respond or cooperate during an initial assessment as an adult would.
Emergency Care of Children and Young People is an essential reference for all health care professionals working with children in the emergency department setting. It explores the key skills needed for effective care and presents the evidence which underpins effective practice in an accessible and informative format. Emergency Care of Children and Young People covers a complete range of topics including legal and ethical aspects, minor injuries, major trauma, effective ways to communicate with children through the use of play and distraction, meningitis and resuscitation.
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Emergency care of children and young people
By Karen Cleaver, Janet Webb
Contributor Karen Cleaver, Janet Webb
Edition: illustrated
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
ISBN 1405101105, 9781405101103
181 pages
Addiction Nursing, Perspectives on professional & Clinical
G. Hussein Rassool, Mike Gafoor (Editors)
Published by Nelson Thornes, 1997
ISBN 0748731792, 9780748731794
268 pages
Chapter 20: Interprofessional Collaboration in Addiction Nursing
(Olive McKeown)
http://books.google.com/books?id=oX8OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT160&
Overview of Book
This book provides one of the few handbooks on areas of clinical issues and practice, interventions, management, education and research on aspects of addiction nursing. In addition, the book provides a framework to assist practitioners in dealing with contemporary difficult issues related to substance misuse and addictive behaviour. The book is written by experienced specialist nursing practitioners working in areas of clinical practice, management, education and research.
Forensic Mental Health: concepts, systems and practice
Editors: A Bartlett and G McGauley
Forensic Mental Health
Concepts, systems, and practice
Edited by Dr. Annie Bartlett and Dr. Gillian McGauley
In the UK, we lock up more individuals per year than in any other part of Europe. Many of these are suffering from some form of treatable mental disorder, yet too often, prison is viewed as the only option. Part of the problem is the range of individuals and specialities involved in making these crucial judgements. Government departments, health and social care and voluntary sector organisations, and frontline criminal justice and penal institutions are all engaged in the definition, management, and processing of the mentally disordered offender (MDO), leaving the invidual in 'spiders web' of a system - often to their disadvantage.
This book presents a penetrating and thought provoking analysis of the forensic mental health system - how it operates, the people involved, the problems inherent in such a system, and the huge ethical dilemma of depriving an individual of their freedom. It brings together a range of specialists, each with considerable experience, who describe the processes involved in dealing with an MDO - from their own unique perspective.
The book starts with a section on violence and risk - covering a range of ideas from the disciplines of criminology, sociology, psychiatry and psychology that contribute to an understanding of these concepts.
The second section, on Forensic Psychotherapeutic Approaches to MDOs details the contributions of both cognitive and psychodynamic psychotherapies to understanding and managing the psychopathology, risk and interpersonal interactions of MDOs.
Legislation, both statutory and case law, has changed substantially in relation to MDOs over the last decade and the third section on Law discusses these changes as well as the fierce debate that has surrounded them.
The fourth section, on Ethics, develops some of these ideas on capacity, autonomy, vulnerability and responsibility. It describes common ethical dilemmas for professionals in forensic settings as it lays out the different duties involved in the different professional roles intrinsic to multi-agency working.
The fifth section on Social Policy discusses the development of the concept of the MDO and how penal, health and social care institutions are designed to meet their needs. It illustrates how much has changed, especially in the last fifteen years and how much of that change has been driven by the risk agenda.
The book concludes with an International Section - exploring how other countries think about anti-social and violent behaviour and how their circumstances and dilemmas have led to approaches to MDOs both similar to and different from those of England and Wales.
The book will be essential for both students and professionals in the complex and ethically challenging discipline of forensic mental health.
Readership : Suitable for students and professionals in forensic mental health.
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