Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 531 g
A Practitioner's Companion in Mental Health and Social Care
Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 531 g
Reihe: The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
ISBN: 978-0-367-10311-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns. The persistence and ubiquity of models designated to tackle diagnoses through focused technologies serve to minimize the human encounter in all its relational and systemic complexity. Practice becomes a technological activity instead of one concerned with the unique creative potential in meeting with others in therapy. With the growth of privatized mental health services, many practitioners are facing a plethora of "Must Do's" that focus on measurable outcomes, with clear goals and cost effective treatments. Yet, in practice, such apparent clarity of purpose often leads to bureaucratic clutter and risk aversion instead of clearing the decks for creativity. The focus of this book is how the practitioner or therapist can navigate around current practices in order to avoid falling into the rapids of quick fix solutions, whilst staying afloat to find realistic outcomes to human dilemmas that are brought to us.
Zielgruppe
Professional Practice & Development
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Series Editors' Foreword, Foreword, Prologue, Introduction, Systemic humanism and the ethics of practice, Hope, and doing what is possible, Exploring creativity in context, Listening and responding: ethical practices and constraints, Co-creative, supervision and practice: experiment, improvise, and perform, Forces that push us from behind, How do we keep on keeping on?, Epilogue
