Dual Diagnosis, 1st Edition
Practice in Context
$87.99
- Paperback
292 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2009
Summary
Dual Diagnosis: Practice in Context is a practical evidence-based guide for practitioners working in multi-disciplinary mental health and substance misuse service settings. Divided into three sections, this comprehensive and international text first explores the contemporary contextual issues surrounding the subject area. It then goes on to review dual diagnosis in some of the ‘special’ populations (including people diagnosed with personality disorders, women, young people, and old…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405180092 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1405180099 |
| Author: | Peter Phillips, Olive McKeown, Tom Sandford |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 292 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 517g |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 175mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
“This book is a positive contribution to keeping the issues alive and a great resource for clinicians, educationists and researchers in the world of dual diagnosis, who can use it to help them improve users’ experiences and the services they receive.” (Mental Health Practice, December 2009)
About The Author
Peter Phillips
Dr Peter Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Addiction in the Department of Mental Health & Learning Disability at City University London, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Mental Health Sciences, at University College London Medical School. Peter’s background is in low threshold drug services in inner London, and substance use research.
Dr Olive McKeown works at St George’s Medical School in London, taking a lead role in under-graduate medical education. She is actively involved in substance misuse and dual diagnosis education within a wide range of medical, nursing and inter-professional programmes
Tom Sandford is Director of RCN England and former RCN Advisor on Mental Health. Tom was previously general manager of mental health services in the London boroughs of Camden and Islington.
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