Where are we now? Presences and absences in mental health social work
Date
2019
Authors
Tseris, E.
Moulding, N.
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Conference item
Citation
9th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, 2019, iss.244, pp.1-1
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9th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health (22 Jul 2019 - 4 Jun 2019 : York, UK)
Abstract
Background: Social work approaches to mental health are distinguished by diverse understandings and practices, from ‘clinical’ work informed by psycho-medical perspectives that are heavily symptom-oriented at one end, to sociological and social policy perspectives that sometimes dismiss the lived reality of poor mental health at the other. This paper critically examines the presences and absences of social work in mental health and considers where we are now and where we should be going.