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Communication and Mental Illness Theoretical and Practical Approaches

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ISBN-10: 1853027324

ISBN-13: 9781853027321

Edition: 2000

Authors: Professor John Cox, Jenny France, Sarah Kramer

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Comprehensive and multidisciplinary, this text presents the key themes in the practice of speech therapy in psychiatry. It describes communication problems and details practical techniques that can be applied to them.
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List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 1/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892

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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Background
Disorders of communication and mental illness
Anxiety disorders: neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Depression and other mood disorders
Personality disorders
Communication, language and mental illness
Assessment of speech and language in mental health
Neuropsychiatry and language
Neuropsychology in psychiatric practice
Management of Mental Health Services
Introduction to management and patient care
Functioning of the multidisciplinary team and the speech and language therapist
The speech and language therapist as a member of the mental health multidisciplinary team
Setting up a speech and language therapy network in mental health
Developing a speech and language therapy service in mental health
General psychiatry
Services for older people in mental health settings
Child psychiatry
Mental health, offenders and the criminal justice system
Forensic psychiatry
People with borderline-mild learning disability
What can we learn from the deaf patient?
Communication and mental health in people with autism and Asperger's Syndrome
Gender identity disorders
Milieu therapy
Personal construct psychology
Neurolinguistic programming in mental health
A multidisciplinary therapeutic alliance: group work developed through cognitive behavioural principles
Interpersonal skills as part of social skill training for schizophrenic patients
The Way Forward
Human communication, language and mental health: some general challenges for research in this field
Communication and formal thought disorder in schizophrenia
Language and communication in schizophrenia: a communication processing model
Linguistic deviance in schizophrenia: preliminary report
Discourse analysis in psychiatry
What is different about the language of persons with mental illness?
Language difficulties or emotional difficulties--what comes first?
Communication and mental health: the way forward
Appendix
The Contributors
Index