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Personality disorders have been recognized as categories of psychiatric illness, and still need to be better defined. This book interprets the personality disorders as products of the interaction between social influences and other aetiological factors as part of a broad biopsychosocial model, and explains how personality traits develop into personality disorders. Strongly oriented towards recent empirical findings, the author argues that although biological, psychological and social factors are all necessary, none of them is by itself sufficient to produce a personality disorder. This basic model is also a model of treatment, in which biological, experiential and social factors should all be addressed in therapy and his treatment recommendations focus particularly on social adjustment through the adaptive use of personality traits.

This book interprets the personality disorders in terms of a broad biopsychosocial model and explains how personality traits develop into personality disorders. This balanced, humane and rational account will greatly assist clinicians in the understanding and treatment of individuals with personality disorder.

A challenging book which describes a new, practical, problem-solving and cost effective approach to the provision of mental health services to a community. The authors draw widely on international research in the field in a book which will be of the greatest interest to health care professionals in whatever treatment setting they may be working.

Redressing the lack of guidance in this area, this book describes how to do mental health service research. It provides a review of developments in research design, method and measurement each illustrated by practical descriptions from comprehensive evaluation projects.

A comprehensive overview of our understanding about the provision of emergency mental health services in an era of community-orientated care. Major research findings and theoretical models which will shape future services are described and illustrated from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.

Homelessness is an increasing global problem which poses particular challenges with respect to appropriate mental health care, assessment, and service delivery. Bringing together international experience of mental health care teams, this book provides a valuable and practical resource for all those working with the homeless on a day-to-day basis.

This second volume, in a series looking at the social dimensions of mental illness, collates and critically examines current knowledge on social support as it impacts on mental health. From biological mechanisms through to psychological and social theory, this text will act as a valuable resource for practitioners in their evaluation of social and psychological treatments.

A comprehensive overview of our understanding about the provision of emergency mental health services in an era of community-orientated care. Major research findings and theoretical models which will shape future services are described and illustrated from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.

A study of schizophrenia in a modern psychiatric hospital, arising from an anthropological investigation of the work of clinical staff. This book will reveal to mental health professionals many of the unspoken assumptions of their role and confirms the power of ethnographic research in psychiatry.

Redressing the lack of guidance in this area, this book describes how to do mental health service research. It provides a review of developments in research design, method and measurement each illustrated by practical descriptions from comprehensive evaluation projects.

This second volume, in a series looking at the social dimensions of mental illness, collates and critically examines current knowledge on social support as it impacts on mental health. From biological mechanisms through to psychological and social theory, this text will act as a valuable resource for practitioners in their evaluation of social and psychological treatments.