Geoff Shepherd
Biographic Data
| ID | 5416274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Shepherd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepherd |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPHERD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Mental Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Uses of strength-based interventions for people with serious mental illness
BACKGROUND: For the past 3 decades, mental health practitioners have increasingly adopted aspects and tools of strength-based approaches. Providing strength-based intervention and amplifying strengths relies heavily on effective interpersonal processes. AIM: This article is a critical review of research regarding the use of strength-based approaches in mental health service settings. The aim is to discuss strength-based interventions within broad…
Uses and abuses of recovery
An understanding of recovery as a personal and subjective experience has emerged within mental health systems. This meaning of recovery now underpins mental health policy in many countries. Developing a focus on this type of recovery will involve transformation within mental health systems. Human systems do not easily transform. In this paper, we identify seven mis-uses ("abuses") of the concept of recovery: recovery is the latest model; recovery…
How Prophecy Lives
The ‘ward-in-a-house’
The multiple techniques approach to behavioural psychotherapy
A retrospective evaluation of the multiple techniques approach to behaviour therapy is described. The effectiveness of the approach seems to compare favourably with a single‐technique approach as far as can be ascertained. The observed improvement can be attributed to some aspect of the treatment package and not to ‘spontaneous remission’ factors. A prospective trial would now seem valuable, providing the problems of replication can be solved. An…
The multiple techniques approach to behavioural psychotherapy
A retrospective evaluation of the multiple techniques approach to behaviour therapy is described. The effectiveness of the approach seems to compare favourably with a single‐technique approach as far as can be ascertained. The observed improvement can be attributed to some aspect of the treatment package and not to ‘spontaneous remission’ factors. A prospective trial would now seem valuable, providing the problems of replication can be solved. An…
The ‘ward-in-a-house’
Uses and abuses of recovery
An understanding of recovery as a personal and subjective experience has emerged within mental health systems. This meaning of recovery now underpins mental health policy in many countries. Developing a focus on this type of recovery will involve transformation within mental health systems. Human systems do not easily transform. In this paper, we identify seven mis-uses ("abuses") of the concept of recovery: recovery is the latest model; recovery…
How Prophecy Lives
Uses of strength-based interventions for people with serious mental illness
BACKGROUND: For the past 3 decades, mental health practitioners have increasingly adopted aspects and tools of strength-based approaches. Providing strength-based intervention and amplifying strengths relies heavily on effective interpersonal processes. AIM: This article is a critical review of research regarding the use of strength-based approaches in mental health service settings. The aim is to discuss strength-based interventions within broad…
Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Family Caregiving in Mental Illness (2 works) · Mental illness (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychological intervention (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)