Thornicroft Graham

In Sanity: Stories of Psychosis, Psychiatry and Stigma, Professor Thornicroft recounts the most dramatic and demanding experiences of his psychiatric career. Through vivid encounters with people living with psychosis, he explores what it means to work alongside individuals whose realities differ profoundly from his own, and his efforts to help them survive, recover and find hope in a world often marked by rejection. Blending memoir and case studies, each chapter offers a revealing story from critical moments in his professional practice, unflinchingly portraying the emotional challenges, professional conflicts and systemic pressures of modern community mental health care. Across these compelling accounts, he addresses questions frequently posed throughout his career: How does a psychiatrist remain emotionally grounded? Is treatment really more than just prescribing medication? And can a person with psychosis ever truly recover?

The Camberwell Assessment of Need for Mothers (CAN-M) is a tool for assessing the needs of pregnant women and mothers with severe mental illness. It is a modification of the Camberwell Assessment of Need, the most widely used needs assessment for people with severe mental health problems. Comprehensive versions are included for research and for clinical use, as well as a short summary version suitable for both clinical and research use. The CAN-M has been rigorously developed by a multidisciplinary team at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and is suitable for use in mental health, obstetric and primary care settings. This book includes a review of the needs of pregnant women and mothers with severe mental illness, the rating scales, descriptions of how they were developed and their psychometric properties, administration details, a full training programme, guidance on scoring and blank assessment forms (for all three versions) for photocopying.

How do we know if mental health services work? What are the best ways to measure the outcomes of care for people with mental health problems? This book contains five practical scales for assessing the outcomes of mental healthcare. They are the European versions of: Camberwell Assessment of Need (for unmet and met needs) Client Socio-demographic and Service Receipt Inventory (for service costs) Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (for impact of care on family members) Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (for quality of life) Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (for service satisfaction). Each scale has been standardised (in Danish, Dutch, English, Italian and Spanish), and has been shown to be reliable and valid in all these European languages. The book contains full details of the development of these scales, manuals for their use, the scales themselves and instructions on how to use the results. These new measures will be invaluable to all those in research, evaluation, audit and management who have an interest in evidence-based policy and practice in mental healthcare.