Clinical Case Management with Persons Having Mental Illness: A Relationship-Based Perspective

by Joseph Walsh

This text equips future mental health practitioners with a model and theory for case management with those with mental illness. The author helps readers feel more competent working with the these clients, giving readers skills that establish and sustain clinical relationships over months or years. The author provides intervention techniques for clients with a variety of mental illnesses (including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, schizotypal personality, paranoid ideation). This text differs from other texts by applying the theory of symbolic interactionism, emphasizing the need for establishing a productive relationship with clients as a prerequisite to any other intervention.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

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Reviews

[Aimee J Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my text for my Clinical Case Management Class for the mentally ill. This has yet to date, been one of my favorite classes and textbooks. It is extremely interactive with the reader and very reader-friendly.

It gives a relationship-based perspective, whereas you are the social worker, not the psychiatrist. This book is more for the advocate/therapist/counselor, not the doctor.

The book covers theories, distinct diagnostic categories, working with the families of the clients with the mental illness, specific attention to working with gay and lesbian clients, clients from other cultures/ethnic backgrounds, etc.