The integration of mental health social work and the NHS

• Bogg, Daisy

• Psychiatric social work -- Great Britain
• Mental health services -- Great Britain.

• Learning Matters,

• 1844458105
• 9781844458103

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Setting the scene: the past, the present and possible futures; Government Direction: A policy framework; Social Work as an Identity within Mental Health Services; The social perspective versus the medical perspective: have we found a middle ground?; Ownership and the secondment of social work staff; Wholesale change?; Working in partnership; Health & social care budgets: will the fog ever lift?; Integrated services: where do the service users fit in?; Approved Mental Health Professionals: a Trojan horse; The experience of substance misuse: a word from the voluntary sector; From the other angle: a word from health; The integration agenda: what have we learnt so far?