Families As Allies in Treatment of the Mentally Ill: New Directions for Mental Health Professionals - Hardcover

Lefley, Harriet P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880482982 ISBN 13: 9780880482981

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 1990

Synopsis

The outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, and organized by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, this volume promotes the modification of clinical education so that families of the mentally ill will be viewed as allied rather than adversaries by new generations of professionals. Based on the historical fact that mental health professionals have traditionally related to families of the mentally ill only through their patients, this book proposes new directions for interactive relationships between families of the mentally ill and mental health professionals.

The book begins with a historical perspective on relationships between mental health professionals and families of the mentally ill. The text points out that the negative relationships now in evidence between relatives of the mentally ill and mental health professionals are actually a legacy of historical American social thought on treatment of the mentally ill. These treatment methods, in their time, had profound effects on the arrangements of care of the mentally ill and their families. Many professional attitudes that are now troublesome to family caregivers are remnants of policies and practices that first took shape during the mid-nineteenth century as a part of the asylum approach to mental illness.

Families as Allies in Treatment of the Mentally Ill: New Directions for Mental Health Professionals provides an overview of issues ,including research directions for new conceptualization of families and the social context of helping families of the mentally ill. This volume addresses ethical and legal considerations in interviewing families of the seriously mentally ill. Each chapter is followed by a commentary, with additional comments ad points of view on the chapter subject.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

This volume promotes changing the clinical education of mental health professionals so that families of mentally ill patients will be viewed as allies rather than adversaries.

Families as Allies in Treatment of the Mentally Ill provides an overview of issues related to this topic, including research directions for new conceptualizations of families and the social context of helping families of mentally ill patients

ethical and legal considerations in interviewing families of seriously mentally ill patients

an outline of model educational programs

About the Author:

Harriet P. Lefley, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, Florida.

Dale L. Johnson, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0880482982
• ISBN 13: 9780880482981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Johnson Dale L.