Changing Outcomes in Psychosis Collaborative

This book presents a series of case studies of psychosocial interventions with schizophrenia and other serious mental health difficulties. The case studies range from work with individuals through work with families and groups, to working with organisations to enable them to adopt a more psychosocial approach. The book is co-authored by a range of carers and service users, alongside a number of professionals in different roles, including service managers, Mental Health Trust directors, nurses and psychologists. This collaborative approach captures the benefits of a true alliance between the service user and/or carer, and the professional with whom they are working. The contributors detail the skills and knowledge bases needed for interventions in a range of settings, including outreach work, group work and family work, as well as treatment on acute wards. Each chapter examines its implications for mental health practice and policy, and editorial introductions and conclusions draw together the main themes of the book.

Richard Velleman is Professor of Mental Health Research at the University of Bath (UoB), a consultant clinical psychologist with the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP), and Director of the AWP/UoB Mental Health Research and Development Unit. His previous books include Clinical Handbook of Co-existing Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Problems (edited, with Amanda Baker, 2006).

Eric Davis is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of West of England (UWE) and a consultant clinical psychologist with the Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust. He is the Trust lead, and the National Institute for Mental Health, England (NIMHE) southwest associate, for early intervention in psychosis and helped to set up the Integrated Approaches to Serious Mental Illness course at the University of Gloucestershire.

Gina Smith is a consultant nurse with the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and is the Trust lead for psychosocial interventions. She is a co-facilitator on the Integrated Approaches to Serious Mental Illness course at the University of Gloucestershire and is the Clinical Director of Studies for the postgraduate programme in mental health practice at the University of Bath.

Michael Drage is a carer who has been involved with the Family Work for Psychosis service in the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust for many years, both as someone receiving help from the service, and as a key participant in training and information courses about the family work service. He is now a lead carer-researcher with the AWP’s Family Work for Psychosis service.

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Psychosocial Developments: Towards a Model of Recovery	p. 1
Shared Caring for a First Episode of Psychosis: An Opportunity to Promote Hope and Recovery	p. 22
Integrating Family and Individual Approaches with People Who Experience Bipolar Disorder	p. 41
Positive Risk-taking within Family Intervention	p. 61
Assertive Outreach and Family Work	p. 80
Relapse Prevention in Bipolar Disorder with Staff Who Are also Service Users	p. 98
Women's Experiences of Psychosis: Recognition of Gendered Difference	p. 117
Advance Agreements, Advance Directives and Pre-emptive Care-planning	p. 135
Recovery from Voice-hearing through Groupwork	p. 154
Recovery through Sports in First-episode Psychosis	p. 172
Employment, Mental Health and PSI: Occupation Is Everyone's Job	p. 194
Using Effective Management Strategies to Facilitate the Delivery of PSI	p. 211
Carer-Practitioner Collaboration in Research and Evaluation	p. 228
Changing Practice	p. 241
Author Index	p. 256
Subject Index	p. 261
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