Published June, 2011
By Norman Sartorius, Graham Thornicroft and Helle Charlotte Knudsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry
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Redressing the lack of guidance in this area, this book describes how to do mental health service research. It provides a review of developments in research design, method and measurement each illustrated by practical descriptions from comprehensive evaluation projects.

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Published July, 2007
By T. S. Brugha and T.S. Brugha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry
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This second volume, in a series looking at the social dimensions of mental illness, collates and critically examines current knowledge on social support as it impacts on mental health. From biological mechanisms through to psychological and social theory, this text will act as a valuable resource for practitioners in their evaluation of social and psychological treatments.

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Published July, 2007
By Dinesh Bhugra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry
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Homelessness is an increasing global problem which poses particular challenges with respect to appropriate mental health care, assessment, and service delivery. Bringing together international experience of mental health care teams, this book provides a valuable and practical resource for all those working with the homeless on a day-to-day basis.

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Published December, 2006
By Graham Thornicroft, Michael Phelan, Geraldine Strathdee, Alan Langlands and Peter J. Tyrer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry
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A comprehensive overview of our understanding about the provision of emergency mental health services in an era of community-orientated care. Major research findings and theoretical models which will shape future services are described and illustrated from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.

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Published November, 2006
By Robert J. Barrett, Peter J. Tyrer and Rob Barrett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry
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A study of schizophrenia in a modern psychiatric hospital, arising from an anthropological investigation of the work of clinical staff. This book will reveal to mental health professionals many of the unspoken assumptions of their role and confirms the power of ethnographic research in psychiatry.

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