Public policy and mental health
Public policy and mental health Matt Muijen Andrew McCulloch Introduction Public policy, and specifically national public policy, is one of the key factors that affects the practice of psychiatry, the…
PSYCHIATRY
Indigenous, folk healing practices
Indigenous, folk healing practices Wen-Shing Tseng What are indigenous, folk healing practices? Indigenous, folk healing practices are nonorthodox therapeutic practices based on indigenous cultural traditions, operating outside of official (modern)…
Art therapy
Art therapy Diane Waller The fundamental principles of art therapy/art psychotherapy Definitions Descriptions of art therapy from two of the oldest and largest professional associations, the British Association of Art…
Social work approaches to mental health work: international trends
Social work approaches to mental health work: international trends Shulamit Ramon The historical development of mental health social work Social work was formally established in most European countries and North…
Psychiatric nursing techniques
Psychiatric nursing techniques Kevin Gournay Background Psychiatric nursing as an entity has really only evolved since the Second World War. Psychiatric nurses (now often referred to as mental health nurses…
Rehabilitation techniques
Rehabilitation techniques W. Rössler The goal of psychiatric rehabilitation is to help disabled individuals to establish the emotional, social, and intellectual skills needed to live, learn, and work in the…
Therapeutic communities
Therapeutic communities David Kennard Rex Haigh Introduction Two of the best-known pioneers of therapeutic communities, Tom Main and Maxwell Jones, defined them as follows: An attempt to use a hospital…
Family therapy in the adult psychiatric setting
Family therapy in the adult psychiatric setting Sidney Bloch Edwin Harari The term ‘family therapy’ covers a range of approaches. At one extreme, it is a method which seeks to…
Group methods in adult psychiatry
Group methods in adult psychiatry John Schlapobersky Malcolm Pines Introduction After a century of development, group therapy is today one of the most widely practised treatment methods in psychiatry with…
Psychotherapy with couples
Psychotherapy with couples Michael Crowe Introduction and background There is an ongoing crisis in the institution of marriage, at least in Western cultures. There has for some time been a…
