Main description:

Learn how to apply positive psychiatry to increase patient collaboration and help patients increase resilience and competencies:

Presents over 40 applications

Full of case vignettes and stories

Explores recovery-oriented care

A highly practical book for all mental health professionals wanting to know how to apply positive psychiatry in their daily work

Positive psychiatry is the science and practice of psychiatry and clinical psychology that seeks to understand and promote wellbeing among people who have or are at high risk of developing mental health problems. In this new approach, the person takes center stage, not the disease, and the focus is not only on repairing the worst, but also on creating the best in our patients.

The authors from the fields of medicine and clinical psychology present over 40 applications and many cases and stories to illustrate the four pillars of positive psychiatry: positive psychology, solution-focused brief therapy, the recovery-oriented approach, and nonspecific factors. The book shows how mental health professionals can significantly increase patient collaboration to co-create preferred outcomes through discovering possibilities and competencies and through building hope,
optimism, and gratitude.

Essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, other professionals working in the field of mental health care as well as students who want to take a positive focus to make psychiatry faster, lighter, and yes, more fun. We have high hopes that positive psychiatry will become a firm part of the psychiatry of the future.

Contents:

Foreword
by Dilip Jeste
Introduction
Paradigm Changes
For Whom Is This Book Written?
Chapter 1: Two Paradigm Changes
Paradigm Change 1: People Take Center Stage, Not the Disease
Paradigm Change 2: Synthesis in Addition to Analysis
Psychiatry of the Future
Chapter 2: Positive Psychiatry
What Is Positive Psychiatry
Positive Psychology
The Solution-Focused Approach
Recovery-Oriented Approach
Nonspecific Factors .
Culture Change
Chapter 3: Recovery-Oriented Approach
by Gerald Jordan and Larry Davidson
What Is Recovery?
What Can Practitioners Do to Promote Recovery?
A Recovery-Oriented Model for Mental Health Service Delivery
Chapter 4: The Applications
A Focus on Strengths
Resilience
Further Positive Psychology Applications
Further Solution-Focused Applications
Online Interventions
Chapter 5: Reflection
Reflection by Practitioners
Positive (Peer) Supervision
Feedback by Patients
Future Vision
Chapter 6: Frequently Asked Questions
Epilogue
Lists of Stories, Cases, Applications, Tables, & Figures
References
Online Resources
Subject Index
Author Index