British Journal of Psychiatric Social Work

British Journal of Psychiatric Social Work

British Journal of Psychiatric Social Work

Obtainable from 1 Park Crescent, London, W.l. 5/'. The current issue of this Journal is up to its usual high standard and includes articles by Lydia Rapaport (a Fulbright Scholar) on "The Use of Supervision as a Tool in Professional Development" and by Mrs. Ledermann (University Department of Psychiatry, Manchester) on "The Significance of Feeling in the Therapeutic Relationship." Apart from th...

Comparative Study of Burnout Rate of Psychiatric Social Workers with Other Areas of Social Work Practice in Tehran

Introduction: Psychiatric social work is one of the most important areas in which social workers as a member of the treatment team provide specialized services in providing a supportive environment for people with mental disorders and their families to meet their needs and return to society. Because one of the factors influencing the quality of social services provided to social work target gro...

The Effect of Social Group Work Intervention on Therapeutic Adherence of Patients with Severe Psychiatric Disorders, a Group Work Report

Introduction: Medication adherence has an essential role in good clinical outcome in the treatment of chronic psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder and prevents psychiatric readmission. Medication non-adherence is prevalent among more than fifty percent of patients with chronic psychotic disorders. If a patient stops taking the medicine, the ...

‘Often there is a Good Deal to be Done, But Socially Rather Than Medically’: The Psychiatric Social Worker as Social Therapist, 1945–70

Seeking to align psychiatric practice with general medicine following the inauguration of the National Health Service, psychiatric hospitals in post-war Britain deployed new treatments designed to induce somatic change, such as ECT, leucotomy and sedatives. Advocates of these treatments, often grouped together under the term 'physical therapies', expressed relief that the social problems encoun...