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A Manifesto for Mental Health

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Services must be equipped to address the full range of people’s social, personal and psychological as well as medical needs. Teams should be multidisciplinary, democratic and aligned to a psychosocial model. This would involve a greater reliance on psychological therapies and suggests that many nursing and medical colleagues should consider retraining. This model also implies a new role for consultant psychiatrists: as expert colleagues, but with leadership of multidisciplinary teams determined by the skills and personal qualities of the individual members of the team. In a psychosocial model of psychological health and wellbeing, there would be no assumption that medical psychiatrists would retain their current authority and status.

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Kinderman, P. (2019). Working Practices. In: A Manifesto for Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24386-9_12

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