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Managing Mental Health Services Amanda Reynolds

Managing Mental Health Services By Amanda Reynolds

Managing Mental Health Services by Amanda Reynolds


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Summary

Designed to help managers of mental health services cope, survive and fulfil their role, this book intends to demystify managerial terms, to provide a summary of the relevant policy and legal framework, and to provide signposts to assist managers in making their way through the maze of service planning and service development options.

Managing Mental Health Services Summary

Managing Mental Health Services by Amanda Reynolds

* What are the key tasks that a mental health manager needs to fulfil?
* What are the six key steps needed to develop manageable mental health services?
* How can managers not just survive but creatively improve mental health services?

This is a practical, no-nonsense book designed to help managers of mental health services cope, survive and constructively fulfil their role. It has been written to help managers to function in an increasingly complex mental health service arena. In clear, jargon-free language it aims to demystify key managerial terms, to provide an understandable summary of the relevant policy and legal framework, and to provide signposts to assist managers in making their way through the maze of service planning and service development options. Managing Mental Health Services will be a leading practical handbook in its field, a point of reference for hands-on managers, and a source of stimulating advice, tips and guidance in mental health service management.

Managing Mental Health Services Reviews

...thorough...detailed...interesting. - Health Service Journal This book will provide students of medical sociology, health policy and health services management with a rangeof information which is not often available in core texts but which is important for understanding the workings of contemporary health caredelivery. - Sociology of Health & Illness The author has written a book which is very readable, well written, clearly organized, comprehensive, balanced in its treatment of industrial and governmental perspectives, and stuffed with interesting titbits about the pharmaceutical industry garnered from around the industrialized world. - International Journal for Quality in Health Care

About Amanda Reynolds

Amanda Reynolds is Lewisham Borough Manager within the adult service of Lewisham and Guys NHS Trust. Prior to this she worked at the Maudsley Hospital, initially as a Directorate Manager within the adult services and then as a Service Development Manager assisting with the reprovision from Warlingham Park Hospital in Croydon. She is a trained psychiatric nurse who first gained her management and project skills working in a housing department with the homeless mentally ill in a joint financed service experience.

Professor Graham Thornicroft is a Consultant Psychiatrist working for the Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust in a Community Mental Health Team in Croydon since September 1996. For the previous five years he worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Camberwell, and took part in developing a wide range of Community Mental Health services. He is also Head of the Section of Community Psychiatry (PRiSM) at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, which undertakes a wide range of research in the field of mental health service evaluation, cost-effectiveness, needs and outcome assessment, and psychiatric epidemiology.

Table of Contents

Section A: Context

Introduction
Policy background

Section B: Six key steps for developing manageable mental health services

The vision
agreeing the guiding principles
Estimating population needs
Making an organizational diagnosis
Writing the strategic business plan
Delivering the service components
Review and evaluation

Section C: The six key managerial tasks

Managing the change process
Human resources 'the untapped potential'
Managing budgets
Creating a robust infrastructure
Allies or adversaries
Surviving the future
Index.

Additional information

GOR001218700
9780335198337
0335198333
Managing Mental Health Services by Amanda Reynolds
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
19990616
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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