Mental Health / / ed. by Jeremy Weinstein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Brammer, Andy,; Bremang, Colette,; McDermott, Des,; Moth, Rich,; Sadd, June,; Spandler, Helen,; Tew, Jerry,; Weinstein, Jeremy,
• HerausgeberIn: Weinstein, Jeremy,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 p.)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Notes on contributors --; Series editors’ introduction --; Lead essay --; Social work and mental health --; Responses --; Letting madness breathe? Critical challenges facing mental health social work today --; Agents of change? Social work for well-being and mental health --; Connecting psychological stress and colonialism --; ‘Diagnosis human’: markets, targets and medicalisation in community mental health services --; The problem with recovery --; A student social worker’s perspective --; Observations from the front line --; Concluding remarks --; Some concluding thoughts --; References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781447366775; 9783111196213
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jeremy Weinstein.

Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, social workers have often been excluded from these initiatives and the dominant approach within mental health continues to be a medical one, albeit supplemented by short-term psychological interventions. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Jeremy Weinstein draws on case studies and his own experience as a mental health social worker, to develop a model of practice that draws on notions of alienation, anti-discriminatory practice and the need for both workers and service users to find ‘room to breathe’ in an environment shaped by managerialism and marketisation.