Estudio y difusión de modelos de atención específicos a cada una de las problemáticas que atiende el Sistema para la Autonomía y Atención a la Dependencia; en este caso, las personas con enfermedad mental. Se detallan los principios del modelo de atención y su relación con el SAAD: descripción del al colectivo y su problemática; las características que han de reunir los recursos (entre ellos los humanos) del sistema; la coordinación con otros sistemas, especialmente el sanitario; y el papel que deben tener los centros de referencia estatales en la atención al colectivo.

Los trastornos mentales originan hasta un tercio del total de los contactos con los servicios de salud en los países desarrollados y no desarrollados. En total, al menos el 20% de la población, niños y adultos, presentan cada año síntomas susceptibles de ser diagnosticados como trastorno mental, y hasta un 2,8% sufre algún trastorno mental crónico y discapacitante. En esta publicación se ha tratado de desarrollar algunos aspectos fundamentales del modelo de atención a la salud mental del siglo XXI, modelos y enfoques que ya forman parte de las estrategias y las prácticas de muchos de los centros de la Orden de San Juan de Dios. Desde esa visión, se pretende plantear los conflictos éticos que aparecen de manera más frecuente en la práctica asistencial, centrándose en los colectivos más vulnerables, los enfermos graves con trastornos persistentes y los niños y adolescentes con problemas mentales. El enfoque biopsicosocial que se aborda ofrece la base para el trabajo interdisciplinar en la asistencia psiquiátrica, una característica que, con mayor o menor acierto en la práctica, constituye uno de los ejes fundamentales de los modelos asistenciales en el mundo, y desde luego, el de la psiquiatría basada en la comunidad. En esta publicación se ha querido añadir otro componente esencial para los centros de la Orden Hospitalaria: la espiritualidad de la persona con enfermedad mental.

This book shows how psychological and social interventions can help people with psychosis. It brings together both theoretical chapters that contribute to the reconceptualization of psychosis and clinical cases illustrating how contemporary psychotherapeutic intervention models can be applied in the treatment of this mental health condition, with reflections, strategies and practical guidelines demonstrating how these models can inform professional practice in mental healthcare. Chapters brought together in this volume aim to reflect a paradigm shift in psychosis care. They present person-centered models that lead to a way of seeing, understanding and treating psychosis that is very different from the traditional biomedical model. Current authors and approaches are revolutionizing an outdated model trapped in purely pharmacological actions and tautological explanations of a biological nature, where symptom control is the basic and fundamental form of approach, and in which psychotherapeutic actions take second place as subsidiary to the former. Approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Acceptance and Recovery Therapy by Levels, Open Dialogue, Compassion-Centered Therapy or the Hearing Voices movement, to name but a few of those presented in this book, represent a journey of self-knowledge and learning for those recovering from psychosis, and have an intense transformative potential for the therapeutic team. The fundamental principle that guides this book is to share models belonging to psychology that aim at personal development while respecting the needs, values and goals of each person, and that can be adopted by any professional or student of clinical psychology, psychiatry, nursing, social work or any other discipline searching for more humanistic approaches to treat psychosis.

This publication presents evidence about the magnitude and severe consequences of comorbidity of mental and physical illnesses from a personal and societal perspective. Leading experts address the huge burden of co-morbidity to the affected individual as well as the public health aspects, the costs to society and interaction with factors stemming from the context of socioeconomic developments. The authors discuss the clinical challenge of managing cardiovascular illnesses, cancer, infectious diseases and other physical illness when they occur with a range of mental and behavioral disorders, including substance abuse, eating disorders and anxiety. Also covered are the organization of health services, the training of different categories of health personnel and the multidisciplinary engagement necessary to prevent and manage comorbidity effectively. The book is essential reading for general practitioners, internists, public health specialists, psychiatrists, cardiologists, oncologists, medical educationalists and other health care professionals.

Presents a novel, evidence-based psychological intervention to help therapists manage cognitive and functional deficits in bipolar disorder patients.

This practice and training guide is written with the needs of health and social care professionals working with people with dementia in mind. The book is illustrated with case studies and includes a chapter on understanding and responding to the needs of the carer - such as access to information and support - and the effect on their own health.