A decade of evidence-based training for work with people with serious mental health problems: progress in the development of psychosocial interventions.
Over the last ten years, the policy of successive governments in the United Kingdom has been to focus service provision on people who experience serious mental health problems. Policy pronouncements have recently culminated with the publication of 'Modernising mental health services' (DoH, 1998). Th...
| Published in: | Journal of Mental Health Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 17 - 32 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2001
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