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Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community
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Mental Health Social Work And The Bureau-Medicalisation Of Mental Health Care: Identity In A Changing World

Pages 15-28 | Published online: 18 Feb 2010

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Trish Van Katwyk & Rachelle Ashcroft. (2016) Using Participatory Action Research to Access Social Work Voices: Acknowledging the Fit. Journal of Progressive Human Services 27:3, pages 191-204.
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Erik Eriksson. (2023) A Market of Lived Experience—User Involvement and the Commodification of Personal Experiences of Mental Illness. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20:14, pages 6427.
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Nancy Ross, Catrina Brown & Marjorie Johnstone. (2023) Beyond medicalized approaches to violence and trauma: Empowering social work practice. Journal of Social Work 23:3, pages 567-585.
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Caroline Leah. (2022) The Role of the Approved Mental Health Professional: A ‘Fool’s Errand’?. The British Journal of Social Work 52:7, pages 3802-3819.
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Catrina Brown, Marjorie Johnstone, Nancy Ross & Kaitrin Doll. (2022) Challenging the Constraints of Neoliberalism and Biomedicalism: Repositioning Social Work in Mental Health. Qualitative Health Research 32:5, pages 771-787.
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Rebecca Dunlop & Gaia Cetrano. (2021) Rewiring practice: community mental health professionals’ attitudes towards and knowledge of electroconvulsive therapy in the context of advance decision-making. Mental Health Review Journal 27:1, pages 100-113.
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Louise Whitaker, Fiona L. Smith, Catherine Brasier, Melissa Petrakis & Lisa Brophy. (2021) Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:18, pages 9504.
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Catrina Brown. (2021) Critical Clinical Social Work and the Neoliberal Constraints on Social Justice in Mental Health. Research on Social Work Practice 31:6, pages 644-652.
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M Webber, K Ngamaba, N Moran, V Pinfold, J R Boehnke, M Knapp, C Henderson, A Rehill & D Morris. (2021) The Implementation of Connecting People in Community Mental Health Teams in England: A Quasi-Experimental Study. The British Journal of Social Work 51:3, pages 1080-1100.
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Laura Tucker & Martin Webber. (2021) ‘Maybe a Maverick, Maybe a Parent, but Definitely Not an Honorary Nurse’: Social Worker Perspectives on the Role and Nature of Social Work in Mental Health Care . The British Journal of Social Work 51:2, pages 545-563.
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Caroline Leah. (2019) Approved mental health professionals: A jack of all trades? Hybrid professional roles within a mental health occupation. Qualitative Social Work 19:5-6, pages 987-1006.
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Darryl James Phillipowsky. (2020) Perspectives on social workers from within an integrated setting. Journal of Integrated Care 28:2, pages 65-76.
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Ian Cummins. (2016) Putting Diagnosis Into Brackets: Franco Basaglia, Radical Psychiatry, and Contemporary Mental Health Services. Illness, Crisis & Loss 26:3, pages 187-199.
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Sarah Anne Oakley Vicary & John Bailey. (2018) A deliberative study into the impact of integration on mental health social work in England: merely a dialogue or activism?. The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 13:2, pages 77-89.
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Martin Webber, Hannah Reidy, David Ansari, Martin Stevens & David Morris. (2015) Developing and Modeling Complex Social Interventions. Research on Social Work Practice 26:1, pages 14-19.
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Martin Webber & Lynette Joubert. (2015) Social Work and Recovery. British Journal of Social Work 45:suppl 1, pages i1-i8.
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Philip O’Hare, Gavin Davidson, Jim Campbell & Michael Maas-Lowit. (2013) Implementing mental health law: a comparison of social work practice across three jurisdictions. The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 8:4, pages 196-207.
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Bob Sapey & Peter Bullimore. (2013) Listening to voice hearers. Journal of Social Work 13:6, pages 616-632.
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Michael Coffey & Ben Hannigan. (2013) New roles for nurses as approved mental health professionals in England and Wales. International Journal of Nursing Studies 50:10, pages 1423-1430.
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