Helping Families Cope With Mental Illness

<p>In this age of spiraling health care costs it is imperative that the family's role in treating patients with chronic mental illness not be overlooked - by policy makers and clinicians alike. The families themselves insist that the government and care-providing agencies learn new ways to relate to them and patients. <em>Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness</em> is a comprehensive guide to the family's experience of chronic and serious mental illness for clinicians and educators in a wide range of mental health disciplines. It details all major areas of the clinician-family relationship - consumer perspectives cultural diversity social policy ethical issues practical coping strategies research and training issues major service issues managed care and cost-saving measures.</p>