Helping Families Cope With Mental Illness

Name: Helping Families Cope With Mental Illness
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Helping Families Cope With Mental IllnessAuthor(s): Harriet P Lefley, Mona Wasow\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Psychology Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781138975934, 978-1138975934\nSynopsis\nIn this age of spiraling health care costs, it is imperative that the family's role in treating patients with chronic mental illness not be overlooked - by policy makers and clinicians alike. The families themselves insist that the government and care-providing agencies learn new ways to relate to them and patients. Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness is a comprehensive guide to the family's experience of chronic and serious mental illness for clinicians and educators in a wide range of mental health disciplines. It details all major areas of the clinician-family relationship - consumer perspectives, cultural diversity, social policy, ethical issues, practical coping strategies, research and training issues, major service issues, managed care, and.