International Reflections on Approaches to Mental Health Social Work

<p>Growing out of an interest in exploring the contemporary contexts and practices related to mental health social work across the world this book provides a range of insights into the social factors which contribute sometimes quite significantly to the emergence of mental health problems for individuals and even whole communities. The range and scope of mental health social work is highlighted through the different accounts of therapeutic work advocacy support and rehabilitation. But this collection goes further and also provides the reader with critical analyses of social work practice and social policies in certain contexts thus inviting the reader to a more reflective consideration of the value of mental health perspectives in social work in general. </p><p>Taken as a whole the collection suggests that social work engages with the field of mental health in diverse creative and very reflective ways yet is always focused on the needs and rights of those for whom problems with mental health can be personally challenging and often disempowering. This book was originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of Social Work Practice.</i></p>