Richard Velleman & Eric Davis 
Changing Outcomes in Psychosis 
Collaborative Cases from Practitioners, Users and Carers

This book presents a series of cases of psychosocial interventions with schizophrenia and other serious mental health difficulties.

* Co-authored by a range of professionals in different roles, as well as carers and service users.

* Captures the benefits of a true alliance between the service user and their clinical worker.

* Details the skills and knowledge needed for interventions in a range of settings, including outreach work and family work, treatment on acute wards, as well as organisational change.

* Introductions and conclusions to each case examine the implications for practice and policy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.

Foreword: Lu Duhig, Laurie Bryant and Professor Antony
Sheehan.

Preface: Richard Velleman, Gina Smith, Michael Drage and Eric
Davis.

1 Psychosocial Developments: Towards a Model of Recovery: Eric
Davis, Richard Velleman, Gina Smith and Michael Drage.

2 Shared Caring for a First Episode of Psychosis: An Opportunity
to Promote Hope and Recovery: Mandy Reed and Caroline Stevens.

3 Integrating Family and Individual Approaches with People Who
Experience Bipolar Disorder: Annie Higgs and Roger Thompson.

4 Positive Risk-taking within Family Intervention: Gina Smith,
Alison Drage, Emily Drage, James Drage and Michael Drage.

5 Assertive Outreach and Family Work: Frank Burbach, John
Carter, Jane Carter and Matthew Carter.

6 Relapse Prevention in Bipolar Disorder with Staff Who Are also
Service Users: Eric Davis, Guy Undrill and Lauren Samuels.

7 Women’s Experiences of Psychosis: Recognition of
Gendered Difference: Vicky Mac Dougall, Karen Luckett and Megan
Jones.

8 Advance Agreements, Advanced Directives and Pre-emptive
Care-planning: Steve Brooks, Jo Denney and John Mikeson.

9 Recovery from Voice-hearing through Groupwork: Keith Coupland
and Tim Cuss.

10 Recovery through Sports in First-episode Psychosis: Sean
Adams, Lydia Bishop and Jane Bellinger.

11 Employment, Mental Health and PSI: Occupation is
Everyone’s Job: Sarah-joy Boldison, Rosie Davies, Hilary
Hawkes, Christine Pacé and Ruth Sayers.

12 Using Effective Management Strategies to Facilitate the
Delivery of PSI: Debbie Furniss and Eric Davis.

13 Carer-Practitioner Collaboration in Research and
Evaluation: Willm Mistral, Michael Drage, Gina Smith, Siobhan Floyd
and Nicola Cocks.

14 Changing Practice: Gina Smith, Michael Drage, Eric Davis and
Richard Velleman.

Author Index.

Subject Index

Über den Autor

Richard Velleman is Professor of Mental Health Research at
the University of Bath (Uo B), a consultant clinical psychologist
with the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
(AWP), and Director of the AWP/Uo B Mental Health Research and
Development Unit. His previous books include Clinical Handbook
of Co-existing Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Problems
(edited, with Amanda Baker, 2006).

Eric Davis is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the
University of West of England (UWE) and a consultant clinical
psychologist with the Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust. He is
the Trust lead, and the National Institute for Mental Health,
England (NIMHE) southwest associate, for early intervention in
psychosis and helped to set up the Integrated Approaches to Serious
Mental Illness course at the University of Gloucestershire.

Gina Smith is a consultant nurse with the Avon and
Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and is the Trust lead
for psychosocial interventions. She is a co-facilitator on the
Integrated Approaches to Serious Mental Illness course at the
University of Gloucestershire and is the Clinical Director of
Studies for the postgraduate programme in mental health practice at
the University of Bath.

Michael Drage is a carer who has been involved with the
Family Work for Psychosis service in the Avon and Wiltshire Mental
Health Partnership NHS Trust for many years, both as someone
receiving help from the service, and as a key participant in
training and information courses about the family work service. He
is now a lead carer-researcher with the AWP’s Family Work for
Psychosis service.