This popular title provides a guide to the complex world of management in psychiatric practice. The editors have brought together an impressive group of knowledgeable and well-known authors who write from their direct and current experience in the ever-changing National Health Service. Topics covered include the various skills necessary for running services, such as management of finances, resources and personnel issues, and topics central to today’s changing scene, such as revalidation, service users’ expectations and clinical governance. The book concludes with a section on personal development, addressing such issues as presentation skills, stress management, mentoring, managing committees and dealing with the media. This book is essential reading for specialist trainees and early career psychiatrists, and is also relevant to consultants, other mental health professionals and clinicians involved in the planning and running of mental health services. Completely updated and enlarged. A sound practical guide. Written by authors with direct, current experience. About the Editors: Prof Dinesh Bhugra CBE is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and President of the World Psychiatric Association. He has written extensively on cultural factors and mental illness, psychosexual medicine and spirituality. Stuart Bell CBE is Chief Executive of the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He joined the NHS in 1982 and has worked in the acute and mental health sectors, in organisational development and performance management at regional level and in the Department of Health. Prof Alistair Burns CBE is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Manchester, National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health in NHS England and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Manchester. His research interests are around dementia and his clinical work is part of a Community Mental Health Team for older people. |