ABSTRACT
In this age of spiraling health care costs, it is imperative that the family's role in treating patients with chronic mental illness not be overlooked - by policy makers and clinicians alike. The families themselves insist that the government and care-providing agencies learn new ways to relate to them and patients. Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness is a comprehensive guide to the family's experience of chronic and serious mental illness for clinicians and educators in a wide range of mental health disciplines. It details all major areas of the clinician-family relationship - consumer perspectives, cultural diversity, social policy, ethical issues, practical coping strategies, research and training issues, major service issues, managed care, and cost-saving measures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Families And Mental Illness: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Now?
chapter Chapter 1|24 pages
Relationships Between Family Caregivers and Mental Health Professionals: The American Experience
part II|66 pages
Current Controversies
chapter Chapter 5|25 pages
Systems Theory Revisited: Research on Family Expressed Emotion and Communication Deviance
part III|146 pages
Service-Related Issues
chapter Chapter 9|34 pages
Serving Children, Siblings, and Spouses: Understanding the Needs of Other Family Members
chapter Chapter 12|15 pages
Family Concerns About Confidentiality and the Seriously Mentally Ill: Ethical Implications
part IV|54 pages
Training And Research
chapter Chapter 15|14 pages
Training Psychiatry Residents and Psychology Interns to Work with Families of the Seriously Mentally Ill
chapter Chapter 16|20 pages
Current Issues in Family Research: Can The Burden of Mental Illness be Relieved?
part V|29 pages
Future Directions: Family, Consumer, and Provider Relations