Creativity in Times of Constraint: A Practitioners Companion in Mental Health and Social Care Wilson Jim Paperback
Creativity in Times of Constraint: A Practitioners Companion in Mental Health and Social Care Wilson Jim Paperback Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly…
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Creativity in Times of Constraint: A Practitioners Companion in Mental Health and Social Care Wilson Jim Paperback
Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns. Practice becomes a technological activity instead of one concerned with the unique creative potential in meeting with others in therapy. The persistence and ubiquity of models designated to tackle diagnoses through focused technologies serve to minimize the human encounter in all its relational and systemic complexity.
Yet, in practice, such apparent clarity of purpose often leads to bureaucratic clutter and risk aversion instead of clearing the decks for creativity. With the growth of privatized mental health services, many practitioners are facing a plethora of "Must Do's" that focus on measurable outcomes, with clear goals and cost effective treatments. The focus of this book is how the practitioner or therapist