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Interventions for Mental Health

An Evidence Based Approach for Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists

  • 1st Edition - April 24, 2003
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Tina Everett, Marie Donaghy, Sally Feaver
  • Language: English

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Interventions for Mental Health An Evidence Based Approach for Physiotherapists is a key text for students in physiotherapy and occupational therapy and is essential reading for clinicians in mental health.Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists are essential members of the mental health-care team with increasing challenges to meet in this area. This book is the definitive text for those treating patients with mental health problems focusing on a range of therapeutic interventions including physical activities and complementary therapies.

Key features

  • Thoroughly revised and up-to-date with the Government's framework for mental health
  • Evidence-based approach
  • Chapters set in the context of clinical effectiveness
  • Emphasis on service delivery, team-work and partnership
  • Relates PT and OT techniques to specific areas within mental health, e.g. child psychiatry, sexual abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, substance misuse, forensic psychiatry, mental illness in old age, and chronic fatigue
  • Highlights interventions such as complementary therapies and physical activities
  • In-depth literature reviews of different treatments
  • Discusses motivation and adherence to treatment, social integration and challenging behaviour.

    • Readership

    Physiotherapists, clinicians, undergraduates and occupational therapists

    Table of contents

    PART 1 – Introduction: Working in Partnership; Models of mental illness; The nature of mental illness; Policy to action; Service evaluation; Users of the service; Working with carers; PART 2 - The physical self: Physical activity and mental health; Motivation and adherence to physical activity; Adoption of physical activity in hospital and community; Activity and social integration; Stress management; Challenging behaviour; Managing pain; Cognitive and behavioural strategies; Enabling occupation; PART 3 - Severe mental illness: Mental illness in children and adolescents; Activity and self-expression; Sexual abuse; Self harm; Eating disorders; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Substance misuse; Illicit drug misuse; Forensic psychiatry; Mental illness in old age; Returning to work

    Product details

    • Edition: 1
    • Latest edition
    • Published: April 24, 2003
    • Language: English

    About the editors

    TE

    Tina Everett

    Affiliations and expertise
    Head of physiotherapy services, Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare Trust, UK

    MD

    Marie Donaghy

    Edited books include

    Everett T., Donaghy M.E., Feaver, S 2003 Interventions in Mental Health: An evidence-based approach for Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann.

    Donaghy M., Nicol M., Davidson K Cognitive Behavioural Interventions in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Edinburgh: Elsevier (in print to be published early 2008)

    Affiliations and expertise
    Professor of Physiotherapy; Dean, School of Health Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy; Graduate member of the British Psychological Society; Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

    SF

    Sally Feaver

    Affiliations and expertise
    Principal Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, School of Health Care (Occupational Therapy), Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

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