Working Alongside People with Long Term Mental Health Problems (Mental Health Nursing & the Community)

This text concentrates specifically on working, on a day-to-day basis, as allies with individuals who are seriously disabled by ongoing mental health problems, thus enabling the users to gain control of their own destinies as far as possible. Emphasis is placed on understanding the experience of mental health problems, the effects that these can have on a person's life and the ways in which acceptable and effective support can be provided.