Cognitive behaviour therapy for acute inpatient mental health units : working with clients, staff, and the milieu

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units presents innovative ways of delivering CBT within the inpatient setting and applying CBT principles to inform and enhance inpatient care. Maintaining staff morale and creating a culture of therapy in the acute inpatient unit is essential for a well-functioning institution. This book shows how this challenge can be addressed, along with introducing and evaluating an important advance in the practice of individual CBT for working with crisis, suited to inpatient work and crisis teams. The book covers a brief cross-diagnosis adaptation of CBT, employing arousal management and mindfulness, developed and evaluated by the editors. It features ways of supporting and developing the therapeutic role of inpatient staff through consultation and reflective practice. Chapters focus on topics such as: providing staff training working within psychiatric intensive care innovative psychological group work. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units will be essential reading for those trained, or those undergoing training in CBT as well as being of interest to a wider public of nurses, health care support workers, occupational therapists, medical staff and managers. The context of the acute in-patient hospital in the UK and the place for therapy within it / John Hanna New ways of working and the provision of CBT in the inpatient setting / Peter Kinderman The service user perspective / Marie Ridd The use of formulation in inpatient settings / Fiona Kennedy Pioneering a cross diagnostic approach founded in cognitive science / Isabel Clarke Working with overwhelming emotion : depression, anxiety, and anger / Isabel Clarke and Hannah Wilson Making sense of psychosis in crisis / Bernadette Freemantle and Isabel Clarke Working with personality disorders in an acute psychiatric ward / John F. McGowan Running reflective practice groups on an inpatient unit / Vivia Cowdrill and Laura Dannahy Working with crisis : the role of the clinical psychologist in a psychiatric intensive care unit / Suzanne Sambrook Training acute in-patient ward staff to use CBT techniques / Ch. Rosebert & Chris Hall The "making friends with yourself group" and the "what is real and what is not group" / Graham Hill, Isabel Clarke, and Hannah Wilson Delivering dialectical behavior therapy based emotional coping skills group across diagnostic groups / Amanda Rendle and Hannah Wilson Evaluating short-term CBT in an acute adult in-patient unit / Caroline Durrant and Abigail Tolland.