Working in Mental Health：Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening – both for service users, and for professional mental healthcare workers. A more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered by an increasing plurality of providers and new mental health policy and legislation are all changing the landscape.
Written by a team of experienced authors, and drawing on their expertise in policy, clinical leadership as well as user perspectives, this textbook explains how mental health services and their staff can operate and contribute in this new environment. Divided into three parts, the first focuses on the socio-political environment, incorporating service user perspectives. Part two goes on to look at current themes and ways of working in mental health – including chapters on recovery, the IAPT programme and mental healthcare for specific vulnerable populations. The final part explores new and future challenges, such as changing professional roles and commissioning services. The book focuses throughout on the importance of public health approaches to mental healthcare.
This important text will be of interest to all those studying and working in mental healthcare, whether from a nursing, medical, social work or allied health background.

Peter Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Addiction at City University London and Honorary Lecturer in Social and Community Mental Health at University College London.
Tom Sandford is Executive Director of services across England for the Royal College of Nursing. His previous roles in the organisation include five years as a mental health policy adviser and three years as London Regional Director.
Claire Johnston is the Director of Nursing for Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and substance misuse services in central London.

Foreword: The Economic Context Shaping the Development of Mental Health Services / Michael Parsonage Part 1: Mental Healthcare and the Socio-political Environment 1. UK Mental Health Policy Development: A Framework for Meaningful Change / Andrew McCulloch and Simon Lawton-Smith 2. UK Mental Health Policy Development: A Counter Argument Deriving From Users' Experiences / Rachel E. Perkins 3. Collaborative Partnerships with Service Users: Models That Work / Alan Simpson 4. The Care Pathway Approach: A Contemporary, Inclusive and Outcome Focused Rationale for Service Provision / Sylvia Tang Part 2: Characteristics of New Mental Health Services 5. Home Treatment for Mental Health Crises: Presenting the Evidence and Potential for Improvement / Fiona Nolan 6. Contemporary Rehabilitation / Helen Killaspy 7. Recovery: A Journey of Discovery for Individuals and Services / Julie Repper and Rachel E. Perkins 8. Drugs, Drink and Mental Health: The Impact and Consequences of Dual Diagnosis for Mental Health Service Delivery / Liz Hughes and Peter Phillips 9. Gender-specific Mental Healthcare: The Case for Women-Centred Care / Louise Phillips and Ann Jackson 10. Race, Ethnicity and Mental Healthcare / Hári Sewell 11. Age-specific Service Lines / Chris Fox, Siobhan Reilly, Steve Iliffe and Jill Manthorpe 12. Improving Access to Psychological Therapies: Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment / John Cape and Caroline Humphries Part 3: The New Territory 13. Delivering New Services: Changes in Professional Roles / Sally Hardy and Neil Brimblecombe 14. Delivering Physical Healthcare in Modern Mental Health Services: What Works and Why We All Have to Bother / David Osborn 15. Commissioning New Mental Health Services / David Jobbins 16. Working in Mental Health: Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment: Conclusions / Tom Sandford, Claire Johnston and Peter Phillips