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Self-management & self-help

Mental health jargon & acronym buster

Price £5.00

New revised & updated edition June 2011
  • Author:
    Simon Heyes
  • Publisher:
    Speak Up Somerset
  • Year:
    2011
  • Pages:
    68
  • ISBN:
    9780954977221

Price £5.00

Compiled by service user Simon Heyes, this is a simple guide to words commonly used in mental health. Useful for anyone new to UK mental health services including service users, carers and professionals. Includes:

  • an A-Z encylopedia/dictionary of mental health covering commonly used jargon, diagnoses, key figures and organisations
  • an explanatory list of acronyms for when you need to know a CMHT from an MHRT
  • a brief timeline outlining developments affecting mental health provision since 1796.
 
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