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Managing Mental Health Services (UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Health & Social Welfare)

Managing Mental Health Services (UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Health & Social Welfare)

by Amanda Reynolds (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

* What are the key tasks that a mental health manager needs to fulfil? * What are the six key steps needed to develop manageable mental health services? * How can managers not just survive but creatively improve mental health services? This is a practical, no-nonsense book designed to help managers of mental health services cope, survive and constructively fulfil their role. It has been written to help managers to function in an increasingly complex mental health service arena. In clear, jargon-free language it aims to demystify key managerial terms, to provide an understandable summary of the relevant policy and legal framework, and to provide signposts to assist managers in making their way through the maze of service planning and service development options. Managing Mental Health Services will be a leading practical handbook in its field, a point of reference for hands-on managers, and a source of stimulating advice, tips and guidance in mental health service management.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 184
 Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 Jun 1999
ISBN 10: 0335198333
ISBN 13: 9780335198337
Book Overview: This title was highly commended in the BMA Medical Book Competition 2000.

Media Reviews
...thorough...detailed...interesting. - Health Service Journal This book will provide students of medical sociology, health policy and health services management with a rangeof information which is not often available in core texts but which is important for understanding the workings of contemporary health caredelivery. - Sociology of Health & Illness The author has written a book which is very readable, well written, clearly organized, comprehensive, balanced in its treatment of industrial and governmental perspectives, and stuffed with interesting titbits about the pharmaceutical industry garnered from around the industrialized world. - International Journal for Quality in Health Care
Author Bio
Amanda Reynolds is Lewisham Borough Manager within the adult service of Lewisham and Guys NHS Trust. Prior to this she worked at the Maudsley Hospital, initially as a Directorate Manager within the adult services and then as a Service Development Manager assisting with the reprovision from Warlingham Park Hospital in Croydon. She is a trained psychiatric nurse who first gained her management and project skills working in a housing department with the homeless mentally ill in a joint financed service experience.

Professor Graham Thornicroft is a Consultant Psychiatrist working for the Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust in a Community Mental Health Team in Croydon since September 1996. For the previous five years he worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Camberwell, and took part in developing a wide range of Community Mental Health services. He is also Head of the Section of Community Psychiatry (PRiSM) at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, which undertakes a wide range of research in the field of mental health service evaluation, cost-effectiveness, needs and outcome assessment, and psychiatric epidemiology.