Mental health / Jeremy Weinstein ; with responses from Helen Spandler, Jerry Tew, June Sadd, Rich Moth, Des McDermott, Colette Bremang and Andy Brammer.

By:

Weinstein, Jeremy [author.]

Contributor(s):

Spandler, Helen, 1969- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical and radical debates in social workPublisher: Bristol ; Chicago : Policy Press, 2014Description: xi, 99 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781447316176
1447316177

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Case studies.

DDC classification:

362.2 WEI 23

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	362.2 WEI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100643965

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, social workers have often been excluded from these initiatives and the dominant approach within mental health continues to be a medical one, albeit supplemented by short-term psychological interventions. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Jeremy Weinstein draws on case studies and his own experience as a mental health social worker, to develop a model of practice that draws on notions of alienation, anti-discriminatory practice and the need for both workers and service users to find 'room to breathe' in an environment shaped by managerialism and marketisation.

Includes bibliographical references.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jeremy Weinstein was a London social worker before moving to South Bank University, leaving there as a Visiting Fellow. He was first involved with the 1970s radical social work 'Case Con' organisation and continues this commitment today through SWAN, the Social Work Action Network. He draws on his social work and his training as a gestalt psychotherapist to write, research and present on mental health, bereavement and loss.