Overview
Illustrates through a clinician's eyes how individuals learn to manage their disabilities to meet personal goals
Describes real individuals who have given informed consent rather than composites
Promotes development of integrated and patient-centered healthcare in accordance with national priority
Shows how disabled people progress toward independence utilizing supports that are relatively inexpensive
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
In this informative and inspiring book the author narrates the stories of 12 patients whom he treated during their recovery from serious mental illness. These narratives reveal their common struggles: misdiagnosis, dual-diagnosis, impeded access to medication, medication-adherence issues, homelessness, employment/unemployment issues, and problems with governmental agencies. They also reveal some of the satisfactions of practicing outreach psychiatry: appreciating the patients’ resilience, persistence, and talents, and the cooperation of outside service-providers, all of which promote recovery. Each patient’s path is unique. Their successes remind us that schizophrenia, paranoia, bipolar illness, and substance abuse need not preclude a productive and satisfying life.
· Direct quotations from patients demonstrate their awareness of their problems and progress.
· Patients’ acceptance promotes flexibility and creativity from their psychiatrist.
· Team members provide innovative and targeted support.
· The psychiatrist identifies aspects his interactions with these patients that contributed to his professional development.
· A unique feature is the documentation of patients’ monthly progress for up to 6 years.
Though no one knows what initiates recovery, this book vividly describes how it does so. For psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers these are compelling stories of hope and a powerful call to consider outreach psychiatry.
Reviews
“Although written primarily for psychiatrists, this book may also prove useful and inspirational for patients with mental illness, trainees in the field, psychologists, case managers, social workers, family members of those with significant psychiatric problems, and anyone else whose life is intertwined with those who have severe mental illness. … It is well written and well worth reading by any clinician -- rookie, novice, or seasoned provider.” (Steven T. Herron, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2016)
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Book Title: Narratives of Recovery from Serious Mental Illness
Authors: William Tucker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33727-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33725-8Published: 26 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81585-5Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33727-2Published: 18 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 165
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work, General Psychology