TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cummins,Ian
TI  - Mental health social work reimagined
SN  - 9781447335610 (pbk.) :
AV  - HV689 .C8 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Policy
KW  - Psychiatric social work
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing distress at its core. The optimism that underpinned the development of community care policies has dissipated to be replaced by a form of bleak managerialism. Neoliberalism has added stress to services already under great pressure and created a danger that we could revert to institutional forms of care. This much-needed book argues that the original progressive values of community care policies need to be rediscovered, updated and reinvigorated to provide a basis for a mental health social work that returns to fundamental notions of dignity and citizenship
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