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Families as Partners in Mental Health Care: A Guidebook for Implementing Family Work by Diane Froggatt, Grainne Fadden, Dale L. Johnson, Margaret Leggatt and Radha Shankar. 

A collaborative project by leading experts in family work from around the world. Based on Ian Falloon’s pioneering work on family psychoeducation. Provides practical solutions for implementing family work. A boon to professionals in the field.

Families as Partners in Mental Health Care

From the back cover:

This guidebook is written by people with an enormous commitment to those who have psychiatric illnesses and their families. In a down-to-eath way it describes how professionals can involve themselves in working with families of their clients for better relationships and superior outcome. Terms such as psychoeducation, family interventions, etc. are not well understood even in the mental health field, despite decades of positive research. The aim of this book is to inform and motivate more people and more mental health services to adopt and implement family work as a part of basic care for those they treat and care for.

It is for all those who are involved with the care of people with mental health problems: psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and other health professionals, as well as policy makers, service managers, families, carers and persons themselves who are unwell.

Price: $29.95 CAD or USD, plus $4 S&H within Canada, $6 to USA, and $12 overseas.

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For multiple copies, please order through Caversham Booksellers.

 

Information Papers

Below is the complete list of our information papers on schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder and schizo-affective disorder. These papers and booklets will inform you about the possible causes, the symptoms and the treatment of the disorders. They will also assist carers and people with mental illness, giving them information on living, coping and dealing day-to-day with these conditions.

Download: You may download many of our information papers in English. See the box below for papers in Russian. For Spanish pamphlets go to our Spanish section.

Books and Websites: You can also see our Resource Section for information about recommended books and websites.

Some of the publications are only available in PDF format. To view and read these files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.Russian Information Papers

 

Information Papers:

1

Booklet #1 Information for Families: About Schizophrenia; How to Behave; Maintaining Your Own Health; Taking Medications and PORT Medication Table for Schizophrenia

  English
2

Booklet #2 Information for Families: Warning Signs of Mental Illness or Relapse; Managing a Crisis; Risk of Suicide

  English
3

Booklet #3 Information for Families: Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder & Schizoaffective Disorder

  English
4

Suggestions to Help Your Relative Take Medications

  English
5a

My Brother, My Sister: Siblings of People with Schizophrenia

  English
5b

Leave My Stuff Alone: Schizophrenia Explained to Teen Siblings

  English
6

A Million Stories: One Family’s Journey Towards Recovery – Keynote Talk @ World Health Assembly – D. Froggatt

  English
7

Biological Basis for Schizophrenia

  English
8a

Families in Limbo – Address to WFSAD Members - M. Leggatt, PhD

  English
8b

The Contribution of Families – Address to WFMH Congress  - D. Froggatt

  English
8c

Consumers, Carers, Clinicians in Collaboration – Address in Kyoto -  M. Leggatt, PhD

  English
 
 
   
9

How to Deal with Some Common Symptoms of Schizophrenia - Dr. P. Weyden & Dr. L. Havens

   
10

Self Help Pointers for Consumers - no longer available

   
11

Developing Self-help & Support Organizations for Families

  English
12a

When a Parent has Mental Illness: Helping Children Cope

  English
12b

When a Parent has Mental Illness: I Grew up Very Fast

  English
13

What to Ask the Doctor

  English
14 Tips for Families Living with People with Mood Disorders (In preparation)  

 

 

15 Conference Proceedings: WFSAD`s 7th International Conference, Canada, 2007   English
16

Book List

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Also see the World Health Organization`s website for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for descriptions of the mental illnesses: F00-F99.

French Publications

Persian Publications

Russian Publications

Articles Online

Organizational Stability: Business Planning for the Future

Recovery Part 1: Getting Your Life Back

Recovery Part 2: The Concept of Recovery

WFSAD's Quarterly Newsletter is also available online.

 

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