Priority Setting and the Public

Practical and evidence-based this unique book is the first comprehensive text focused on person-centered approaches to people with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It reflects a range of views and findings regarding assessment treatment rehabilitation self-help policy-making education and research. It is highly recommended for all healthcare professionals students researchers and educators involved in general practice psychiatry nursing social work clinical psychology and therapy. Healthcare service providers and policy makers and shapers will find the book's wide-ranging multi-professional approach enlightening. 'Serious Mental Illness reflects a continued distancing from the outmoded and unsubstantiated belief that people with severe mental illnesses could not recover and that they would respond positively only to goals and treatment plans chosen designed and implemented by providers in order to prevent their further deterioration. Anyone with an interest in the concept of person-centered approaches will discover new ideas in this book. Indeed anyone with an interest in person-centered approaches has to read this book. Not only is it the first such book on person-centered approaches but it will serve as the gold standard in this topic area for years to come.' William A Anthony in the Foreword