Mutual Aid Group Work: Social Work Leading the Way to Recovery-Focused Mental Health Practice

Mental Health and Social Work

L.C.C. Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

set up in 1943 by the Medical Officer of Health of the L.C.C. in connection with the re-organization of the Council's Mental Health Services, and was compiled primarily for the use of Psychiatric and Mental Deficiency Social Workers in the Public Health Department. The actual information it contains is .therefore related to the methods used by one particular Authority, but so varied are the top...

Mental Health and Work : Mental Health and Work: Norway

Executive summary Assessment and recommendations Chapter 1. Mental health and work challenges in Norway Chapter 2. Reconsidering Norwegian sickness absence policies Chapter 3. Revising disability benefit assessment procedures and eligibility criteria in Norway Chapter 4. Enhancing the effectiveness of Norway’s vocational rehabilitation system Chapter 5. Involving mental health care in Norway in...

The Effect of Social Group Work Intervention on Therapeutic Adherence of Patients with Severe Psychiatric Disorders, a Group Work Report

Introduction: Medication adherence has an essential role in good clinical outcome in the treatment of chronic psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder and prevents psychiatric readmission. Medication non-adherence is prevalent among more than fifty percent of patients with chronic psychotic disorders. If a patient stops taking the medicine, the ...