Social work, psychiatry and the law / N.N. Pringle and P.J. Thompson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.

The role of the approved social worker in contemporary mental health practice is explored by combining descriptions of various aspects of multi-disciplinary working. Included are accounts of clinical signs and syndromes.

Law, policy and practice -- The assessment process -- An assessment strategy -- Mental health: the law and practice -- Psychiatry, diagnosis and treatment -- Psychiatric illness -- Neuroses -- Psychoses -- Functional psychoses: affective disorders -- Functional psychoses: schizophrenia -- Drug therapy -- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) -- Psychosurgery (leucotomy) -- Hormonal implant treatment -- Consent to treatment -- The Bournewood example -- Psychotherapy -- Severe and enduring mental illness -- From hospital to community care -- Needs -- The management of users with enduring mental illness -- Case examples -- Disturbances in children and adolescents -- The legal framework -- Children -- Adolescents -- Mental impairment, learning disability and difficulty -- Older people -- Bereavement -- Affective disorders -- Hypomania -- Senile dementia -- Acute confusional states -- Multi-infarct (arthroscleratic) dementia -- Schizophrenia and paraphrenia -- Mental health in elders: case examples -- Culture and diversity -- Case examples -- Drugs, alcohol and addictions -- Substance use and the Mental Health Act 1983 -- Substance use and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 -- The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 -- Substance use and social work training -- Types of substance -- Types of intervention -- Substance use and risk -- Other addictions -- Dangerousness, suicide and homicide -- Puerperal psychosis -- Managing dangerousness -- Managing violence -- Stalking -- Clinical syndromes.