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Elsevier Health Sciences Community Mental Health Care: A Practical Guide to Outdoor Psychiatry 1e by Mark Salter Trevor Turner
Outdoor Psychiatry provides a comprehensive outline of the essentials of work in community mental health care. Written in an accessible and engaging style it provides an indespensible blueprint for the profession in the twenty first century.It summarises the history of community care; its why when what and who; the skills required to work with psychiatric patients; the practical rules of the game in terms of the care programme approach the mental health act and treatments (psychological social and physical including medications). This provocative and ground-breaking book will encourage debate and challenge community mental health workers to provide a modern and practical approach to the holistic care of the patient.show more