Psychiatric Rehabilitation [Hardcover]

Carlos W. Pratt (Author), Kenneth J. Gill (Author), Nora M. Barrett (Author), Melissa M. Roberts (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0125642458 | ISBN-13: 978-0125642453 | Publication Date: May 1, 1999 | Edition: 1st

Community based services for people with severe mental illness promote community integration, improved quality of life, and recovery. Psychiatric Rehabilitation provides a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing field. The book, written in an easy-to-read, engaging style, is suitable as a textbook for both undergraduate and graduate courses, as a training tool for mental health workers, and as a reference for academic researchers studying mental health. Each chapter contains highlighted and defined key terms, focus questions and key topics, a case study example, sections on controversial issues of treatment or ethics, and other special features. An overview of major psychiatric disorders, the philosophy and principles of psychiatric rehabilitation, community based service approaches, case management strategies, and vocational and educational rehabilitation are included.

Key Features
* Case study examples illustrate chapter points
* Special boxed sections address controversial issues and key topics
* Includes biographical sketches of major theorists
* Highlights and defines key terms
* Focus questions are provided
* Provides class exercises at close of each chapter

Editorial Reviews

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"Psychiatric Rehabilitation provides a comprehensive overview of community based services for people with severe mental illness. Written in an easy-to-read, engaging style, Psychiatric Rehabilitation is ideal as a textbook for both undergraduate and graduate courses, as a training tool for mental health workers, and as a reference for academic research in the field of mental health. Each chapter contains highlighted and defined key terms, focus question, key topics, a case study example, and sections on controversial issues of treatment or ethics. Also provided are an overview of major psychiatric disorders, the philosophy and principles of psychiatric rehabilitation, community based service approaches, case management strategies, vocational and educational rehabilitations. Psychiatric Rehabilitation serves as the ideal introduction for students and non-specialist general readers to an important aspect of psychiatric services."
--WISCONSIN BOOKWATCH, September 1999

Book Description

Comprehensive introduction to the practice and study of psychiatric rehabilitation --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 1st edition (May 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0125642458
• ISBN-13: 978-0125642453
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #697,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb introduction to psychosocial rehab for new clinicians, June 13, 2001

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This review is from: Psychiatric Rehabilitation (Hardcover)

Superb introduction to psychosocial rehabilitation. Introduces the experiece of mental illness from the client's perspecitive, covers symptoms and etiology of severe and persistent mental illness as well as treatment strategies. The book is simply written using case illustrations. I have used it for new staff at our community mental health clinic for the past 2 years. The book was popular - so popular that it disappeared and I am replacing it with several copies, one for each team. I would recommend the book as a resource for any student of a mental health program or any staff person trying to get a handle on working effectively with clients who have severe and persistent mental illness.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction To A Newly Burgeoning Field, June 2, 2010

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Thomas H. Pyle (Princeton, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Second Edition (Hardcover)

I'm a parent to a young adult son with schizophrenia. Like so many others in my position, I have been navigating the maelstrom of mental disability. Tossing and turning on such turbulent seas, I have been hankering for a safe harbor of understanding from which I can chart a more productive course. I have found it in Psychiatric Rehabilitation, a wonderful textbook by Carlos Pratt, et.al. at University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, one of the few schools which actually teaches this subject at a graduate level. (Boston University and University of Illinois at Chicago are the other two.)

Psychiatric rehabilitation is a relatively new field within mental health. Originated by early adopters like William Anthony of Boston University and Robert Drake of Dartmouth Medical School, psychiatric rehabilitation proposes to turn the traditional concepts of mental illness on their heads. No longer are we talking illness and disability. We are now all about wellness and recovery. This makes perfect sense. As a cancer survivor myself, I appreciate an affirmative tone that this book projects... confidence... autonomy... VICTORY over affliction! The old thinking is about disability, illness, limits, constraints, restraints, disability... The new thinking, so well embodied in Pratt et.al.'s fine text, is all about empowerment, hope, recovery, POSSIBILITIES!

Psychiatric Rehabilitation describes it all well. For a loved one of someone with a mental illness, this book is a godsend. It speaks of the wonderful potentialities for all mentally afflicted to create a better life for themselves in their recoveries. All recoveries will differ. They all depend on the individual. Families also play a critical role. The beauty of this book is its laying out so lucidly all the possible elements of a holistic recovery, supported employment, supported education, and supported housing, just to mention three.

Never would I wish a mental illness on anyone. My son's PACT director says that mental illness is an ailment worse than cancer. At least with cancer there is a definitive end. I don't go that far. My son's mental illness, I tell my incredulous friends, has actually been a blessing: I have come to learn first-hand of the significant trauma that many loved ones navigating this maelstrom experience for themselves. The blessing is in the bonding with all of them. It is part of the spirit that Psychiatric Rehabilitation embraces.

This text lays out cogently, simply, articulately all the aspects of recovery available to our disabled. Its plain and direct explanations can help the afflicted--and their loved ones alike--to see ahead a better future. Psychiatric Rehabiliation, both this text and the movement it describes, is all about positive empowerment. More power to Carlos Gill et.al,. with thanks from this layman for this fine canonical text!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Psychiatric Rehabilitation, January 23, 2003

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Irene E Werth (Ellsworth, KS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Psychiatric Rehabilitation (Hardcover)

In reviewing this book I found it to be interesting and educational at the same time. It is not dry reading for a subject that could well be that. I will be able to use this book in my clinical practice when I graduate this summer.