Mental Health

This book provides a critique of the achievements of the National Service Framework for Mental Health in England and Wales. The editors and contributors use their extensive experience and knowledge of mental health practice to analyse the effectiveness of developments in services and practice. They reflect on the 'new thinking' about how services should be organised and how practitoners should be educated and trained and provide insight into how the lessons learned may shape policy and practice in the future.

“An excellent discussion of the background to current thinking puts contemporary practice into context and will appeal to a wide audience.”
Nursing Standard, February 11 :: vol 23 no 23 :: 2009

Charlie Brooker and Julie Repper have brought together an excellent group of professionals in this usefull and practical book. Early on the editors state: "It is difficult to describe what it is like to be diagnosed as having mental health problems particularly serious ones." This sums up brilliantly the life of someone with mental health problems.
Mental Health From Policy and Practice April 2010