Mental Health Social Work in Context

This new edition of Mental Health Social Work in Context continues to be an authoritative, evidence-based introduction to a core area of the social work curriculum. 

Grounded in the social models of mental health particularly relevant to qualifying social workers, but also intended to familiarise students with social aspects of medical perspectives, this core text helps to prepare students for practice and to develop their knowledge around:

¿   promoting the social inclusion of people with mental health problems;

¿   the changing context of multidisciplinary mental health services;

¿   an integrated evidence base for practice; and

¿   working with people with mental health problems across the life course.

Including new material on proposed reforms to mental health and mental capacity legislation, this book also contains major revisions that focus on the statutory and policy context