ABSTRACT
Concluding remarks AlanMeaden and AndrewFox When psychological approaches began to gain increasing respectability in the early, they did so by largely targeting populations who were not responding to standard psychiatric treatment. What emerges from the collection of approaches in this book is that not only is there an increasing range of therapies that can be offered but that they share many common features. A key lesson is that approaches which offer a different value base, are more person-centred, and pay attention to the person's own strengths and context, to support engagement in therapy. Although some of the approaches described here are already the focus of research effort, the focus on less traditional goals may make them more difficult to measure in terms of routine outcomes and less amenable to trial-based evaluation. People believe that these outcomes are the most meaningful for the people who use our services, and these goals that increase the chances of positive outcome for service users.
