Communication and Mental Illness is a comprehensive and practical textbook which presents the key themes in the practice of speech therapy in psychiatry. The new and updated edition of Communication and the Mentally Ill Patient, it describes communication problems associated with different kinds of disorders, including the autistic spectrum disorders, and details practical techniques which can be applied to them. It examines the important role speech therapists can play as part of a multidisciplinary team, and also looks at the management of these teams and speech therapy services in general for people with mental health problems. This book will help professionals in mental health settings to gain a deeper understanding of the role communication problems play in mental illness, and interventions which can improve the situation. It also looks at service provision and lays guidelines for future policy and practice
Author(s): Jenny France, Sarah Kramer
Edition: 1
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 478
Communication and Mental Illness: Theoretical and Practical Approaches......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Part I: Background......Page 14
1 Disorders of communication and mental illness......Page 16
2 Anxiety Disorders: Neurotic, Stress-Related and Somatoform Disorders......Page 27
3 Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders......Page 43
4 Depression and Other Mood Disorders......Page 66
5 Personality Disorders......Page 82
6 Communication, Language and Mental Illness......Page 102
7 Assessment of Speech and Language in Mental Health......Page 111
8 Neuropsychiatry and Language......Page 124
9 Neuropsychology in Psychiatric Practice......Page 137
Part II: Management of Mental Health Services......Page 146
10 Introduction to Management and Patient Care......Page 148
11 Functioning of the Multidisciplinary Team and the Speech and Language Therapist......Page 155
12 The Speech and Language Therapist as a Member of the Mental Health Multidisciplinary Team......Page 159
13 Setting Up a Speech and Language Therapy Network in Mental Health......Page 168
14 Developing a Speech and Language Therapy Service in Mental Health......Page 173
15 General Psychiatry......Page 182
16 Services for Older People in Mental Health Settings......Page 193
17 Child Psychiatry......Page 209
18 Mental Health, Offenders and the Criminal Justice System......Page 222
19 Forensic Psychiatry......Page 232
20 People with Borderline-Mild Learning Disability......Page 237
21 What Can We Learn From the Deaf Patient?......Page 252
22 Communication and Mental Health in People with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome......Page 263
23 Gender Identity Disorders......Page 268
24 Milieu Therapy......Page 281
25 Personal Construct Psychology......Page 285
26 Neurolinguistic Programming in Mental Health......Page 298
27 A Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Alliance: Group Work Developed Through Cognitive Behavioural Principles......Page 304
28 Interpersonal Skills as Part of Social Skill Training for Patients with Schizophrenia......Page 313
Part III: The Way Forward......Page 324
29 Human Communication, Language and Mental Health: Some General Challenges for Research in this Field......Page 326
30 Communication and Formal Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia......Page 336
31 Language and Communication in Schizophrenia: A Communication Processing Model......Page 352
32 Linguistic Deviance in Schizophrenia: Preliminary Report......Page 372
33 Discourse Analysis in Psychiatry......Page 394
34 What is Different About the Language of Persons with Mental Illness?......Page 408
35 Language Difficulties or Emotional Difficulties – What Comes First?......Page 434
36 Communication and Mental Health: The Way Forward......Page 440
Appendix: Some Useful Addresses of Organisations Linked to Mental Health Work......Page 445
The Contributors......Page 448
Subject Index......Page 454
Author Index......Page 468
