UID:
almahu_9949384160702882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 263 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780203728857
,
0203728858
,
9781351395014
,
1351395017
,
9781351394994
,
1351394991
,
9781351395007
,
1351395009
Content:
Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health provides an overview of the development of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), and illuminates how the political context affects the way in which therapists consider their work and facilitates their practice. This book examines how CAT contributes to wider debates over 'the politics of mental health'. With contributions from those working in services - including adult mental health, learning disabilities and child and adolescent therapists - the writers consider how contemporary politics devolves responsibility for mental illness onto those suffering distress. The evolving political and social attitudes clients bring to therapy are also addressed in several chapters, and there is a focus on groups in society who have been marginalized and neglected in mental and physical health services. Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health offers a fresh understanding of the contemporary politics of mental health that will be of interest to all therapists and mental health professionals.
Note:
Chapter 1: Introduction: cognitive analytic therapy and the politics of mental health; Bringing politics out of the shadows; The limits to therapeutic dialogue; The politics of psychotherapy; The economic context; The position of CAT; Introducing the CAT model; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Reciprocal roles in an unequal world; Inner and outer worlds; Learning inequality in the family; Learning about difference; Power at the heart of reciprocal rolesWhat are the current contours of inequality?; Returning CAT to its radical social roots; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Putting the social into psychotherapy: implications for CAT; The challenge; Coping strategies in therapy and CAT; The impact of social adversity and the importance of trauma-informed approaches; The fit between survival strategies and one's position in the social world; Social adversity and the scope of psychotherapy; How can CAT meet some of these challenges?; Concluding comments; Bibliography ; Chapter 4: The de-radicalisation of CAT: a regressive interaction of economics, theory and practice?Psychotherapy under neoliberal capitalism; CAT theory and practice; References; Chapter 5: The madness of money: the super-rich, economic inequality and mental health; Introduction; The super-rich and us; From the political to the personal and how using CAT can bridge the gap; Notes; References; Chapter 6: The intergenerational transmission of the adverse effects of inequality; Introduction; The mental health observatory; The historical background; Deprivation, trauma and human resilience ; The clinical use of CAT in therapeutic work with families affected by intergenerational disadvantagesCase example and discussion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Using CAT to bridge the gap: attending to the ultimate and the intimate; What's in a name? Defining people with learning disabilities; The history (creation) of learning disability and IQ; Learning disability through a CAT lens: theory and practice; Practice and activism: both/and not either/or; Dying too soon: reformulation at a systems level; Bibliography ; Chapter 8: From deviance and sin to unmet needs: a CAT conceptualisation of challenging behaviourIntroduction: the historical background to behaviour that challenges; What is challenging behaviour? A socio-political approach; Reformulation of unhelpful dynamics in relation to challenge; Working with behaviour that challenges; Why do good people do bad things when they are trying to care for people who challenge?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 9: Responding not reacting to challenging behaviour: a reformulation approach; Introduction ; Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health provides an overview of the development of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), and illuminates how the political context affects the way in which therapists consider their work and facilitates their practice. This book examines how CAT contributes to wider debates over 'the politics of mental health'. With contributions from those working in services -- including adult mental health, learning disabilities and child and adolescent therapists -- the writers consider how contemporary politics devolves responsibility for mental illness onto those suffering distress. The evolving political and social attitudes clients bring to therapy are also addressed in several chapters, and there is a focus on groups in society who have been marginalized and neglected in mental and physical health services. Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health offers a fresh understanding of the contemporary politics of mental health that will be of interest to all therapists and mental health professionals.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cognitive analytic therapy and the politics of mental health. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781138305137
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780203728857
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203728857
