Reviews : Video in Mental Health Practice IRA HEILWEIL Tavistock Publications 1984, pb; pp 186; £4.95
| Author | Chris Mackett |
| Date | 01 June 1984 |
| Published date | 01 June 1984 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058403100221 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Depression. Understanding and Helping shows
social work, or at least casework practice, and the
interviews between a social worker on GP
attach-
articles on women
and psychotherapy by Llewelyn
ment and a reactive-depressive male, between a
and Osborn and social class and therapy by
child guidance clinic social worker and an
Bromley offer particularly useful reviews of the
agitatedly depressed mother, and, particularly
literature. A
further point of interest is the almost
impressme, the home visit of a hospital social
uncanny parallel between the concerns of psycho-
worker to a catatonically depressed lady. In
therapists and social workers. There is hand wnng-
Understanding and Handling Aggression we see
ing over the lack of proof as to the effectiveness
an aggressive patient who wants to discharge
of practice, confusion over the diversity of models
himself from hospital being interviewed badly and
of practice on offer, worry over the association
then successfully by a social worker, and we also
with functions of social control and the constant
see an interview with a silently aggressive
problem of being overlooked and misunderstood
youngster. In Key Elements in the Helping Inter-
by more powerful professionals. Doesn’t all this
view there is just one lengthy role play of an intake
sound rather familiar ?
interview with a young mother who seems to have
ROBIN PARKER
been deserted by her husband. It enables us to look
Hatfield Polytechnic
at good practice but also permits criticism of the
interviewer
Video in Mental Health Practice
I found the examples on the tapes helpful and
IRA HEILWEIL
realistic and they could certainly provide a focal
Tavistock Publications 1984, pb; pp 186; £4.95
point for a study day. Although the tapes are for
The
author alms’to provide a practical handbook
sale only, a 28 minute demonstration tape (VHS
of how to use video within different therapeutic
only) containing excerpts from the role plays in
contexts’. The main part...
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