Robert E. Drake – författare

This book reviews the implementation of community-orientated care using the balanced care model. It summarizes the steps, obstacles and mistakes that have been encountered in the implementation of community mental health care worldwide and presents guidelines on how to avoid them. It proposes realistic and achievable recommendations for the development and implementation of community-orientated mental health care over the next ten years. These guidelines will be of practical use to psychiatrists and other mental health and public health practitioners at all levels worldwide, including policy makers, commissioners, funders, non-governmental organisations, service users and carers. A core message of the book is that the mental health sector will more powerfully advocate for better services in future through strong and unified alliances, especially with powerful representation from consumer/service user and carer groups.

Community-orientated care draws on a wide range of practitioners, providers, care and support systems (both professional and non-professional), though particular components may play a larger or lesser role in different settings depending on the local context and the available resources, especially trained staff. Research by a WPA task force has demonstrated that most of the challenges are common and global, but with local variations. The book is therefore relevant to psychiatrists and mental health workers in developed countries who are trying to deliver better health care on reduced budgets and for those in the developing economies who are in the position to modernise their mental health care. It provides clear, concise guidance on policy and practice decisions, learning from what has and has not worked in regions in the world.

The book contains many tables documenting the evidence, supported by an essential reference list, and a Key Points summary for each chapter.

Highly Commended in the Psychiatry section of the 2012 BMA Book Awards.

This book reviews the implementation of community-orientated care using the balanced care model. It summarizes the steps, obstacles and mistakes that have been encountered in the implementation of community mental health care worldwide and presents guidelines on how to avoid them. It proposes realistic and achievable recommendations for the development and implementation of community-orientated mental health care over the next ten years. These guidelines will be of practical use to psychiatrists and other mental health and public health practitioners at all levels worldwide, including policy makers, commissioners, funders, non-governmental organisations, service users and carers. A core message of the book is that the mental health sector will more powerfully advocate for better services in future through strong and unified alliances, especially with powerful representation from consumer/service user and carer groups.

Community-orientated care draws on a wide range of practitioners, providers, care and support systems (both professional and non-professional), though particular components may play a larger or lesser role in different settings depending on the local context and the available resources, especially trained staff. Research by a WPA task force has demonstrated that most of the challenges are common and global, but with local variations. The book is therefore relevant to psychiatrists and mental health workers in developed countries who are trying to deliver better health care on reduced budgets and for those in the developing economies who are in the position to modernise their mental health care. It provides clear, concise guidance on policy and practice decisions, learning from what has and has not worked in regions in the world.

The book contains many tables documenting the evidence, supported by an essential reference list, and a Key Points summary for each chapter.

Highly Commended in the Psychiatry section of the 2012 BMA Book Awards.

Have you ever wondered what it will be like in Heaven?

Living eternally means there will be absolutely NO time limits on the amount of fun, exploration, living, learning, and loving you and I, alongside the saved of all generations, can experience and enjoy.

The Holy Scriptures reveal enough information about Heaven for us to use our deductive reasoning skills to infer a surprising number of things that most likely won''t be there.

Taking this approach allows us to employ the same compare-and-contrast method Jesus often used in parables to illustrate important concepts and principles. I believe this same method can still be used with today''s young people and adults who have lost a spouse to effectively counter many of the false concepts and troubling distortions our modern culture and media have promoted about Heaven and the New Earth.