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INCORPORATING
RECENT CHANGES TO THE MENTAL HEALTH ACTS
A Straightforward Guide to Understanding Mental Illness, Revised
Edition, updates the previouse edition in the light of recent
significant changes in the legislation dealing with Mental
Health. The author deals with the subject of mental health
from the standpoint of both a professional involved in the
field and also as someone who has had a wealth of experience
in the area, both on a personal level and also dealing directly
with those termed `mentally ill'.
There
is a general misunderstanding. and not a little prejudice,
about varying types of mental illness, and the book sets out
to describe and explore further the more widely known disorders
and rarer conditions. The underlying aim is to explain in
clear terms the nature of the various types of mental illness,
the perceived roots of such illness and also intersperse this
information with case studies.
The
following areas are covered:
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The role of mental health professionals
* The Mental Health Act
* Psychiatric hospitals
* Care in the Community
* Specific disorders
* Anxiety
* Depression
* Eating disorders
* Mania and manic depressive illness
* Obsessive compulsive disorders
* Paranoia
* Phobias
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Suggested treatments
The author: Marianne is an experienced mental health
worker, qualified in Ericksonian (brief) therapy and behavioural
family therapy, with a Masters Degree in Mental health Practice.
She is particularly interested in depression, communication
and solution focused approached to mental health.
Revised Edition
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