TY - BOOK AU - Williams, Caroline AU - Firn, Mike AU - Wharne, Simon AU - Macpherson, Rob TI - Assertive outreach in mental healthcare: current perspectives SN - 9781405198653 AV - RA790.S5 PY - 2011/// CY - Chichester PB - Blackwell KW - Community mental health services KW - Great Britain KW - Europe KW - Community-institutional relations KW - Outcome and process assessment (Health care) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; What does research tell us about assertive community treatment? / Andrew Molodynski and Tom Burns -- Multi-professional working in assertive outreach / Hannah Steer and Steve Onyett -- Fidelity and flexibility / Caroline Williams, Rob MacPherson, and Mike Firn -- Cognitive behaviour therapy for assertive outreach service users / Robert Griffiths, Caroline Williams, and Neil Harris -- Dual diagnosis : putting policy into practice / Rory Allott, Ian Wilson, and Mike Firn -- Use of medication in assertive outreach / Rob MacPherson and Tom Edwards -- Relatives, friends, and carers' experiences : involvement and support / Simon Wharne ... [et al.] -- Service user experience : engagement and recovery / Simon Wharne and Kamal Spilsted -- Assertive outreach : stigmatising treatment or social inclusion / Simon Wharne -- Meeting the black and ethnic minority agenda / Simon Wharne and Neil Sanyal -- Diversity and assertive outreach / Simon Wharne and Caroline Williams -- Personal autonomy : leverage and coercion / Mike Firn and Andrew Molodynski -- Targets, outcomes, and service evaluation / Mike Firn -- Funky mental health / Steve Morgan and Sue Jugon N2 - Assertive Outreach in Mental Healthcare: Current Perspectives explores experiences, successes, interventions, and service user stories as well as lessons learned from the implementation experience surrounding assertive intervention. It provides a synthesis of expert experience in the field as well as experiences of grass roots team practitioners.This book makes a valuable contribution to the field by addressing in depth a wide range of topics critical to the delivery of assertive outreach services and providing practitioners with a manual into which they can feed lessons ER -