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A flawed ethos Invalid diagnoses The drugs don't work Coercion Psychiatry in crisis and schism A psychological ethos and model A prescription for mental health and well-being Get the Message Right: A Psychosocial Model of Mental Health and Well-being Reform and humanity Debates and disagreements Perspective 1 ... 'psychiatry is a medical speciality ... 'Perspective 2 ... 'psychiatry is not a medical speciality ... 'Perspective 3 ... 'we're a team ... 'A new model of mental health and well-being Prevention beyond the 'disease model'Pathways to mental health A psychological model Where would this leave psychiatry?Understand, Don't Diagnose A dog chasing its tail If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it People are reassured by diagnoses Getting in the way of empathy Not everything has joints What is 'abnormal' anyway?Why, and how, do we diagnose 'mental illnesses'?The World Health Organization's International Standard Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death - ICD-10 American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - DSM-5 Reliability Validity 'Oppositional defiant disorder' ... really?On being sane in insane places A tool for action Statistical relationships are not diagnoses There is no 'normal' and 'abnormal' in mental health If we don't diagnose, what's the alternative?Simply list the problems ... with some scientific specificity Planning, commissioning and audit Psychosocial formulations This matters The Drugs Don't Work ... So Offer Real Solutions A pill to take away your sadness Are antidepressants 'antidepressants', or just drugs?A pill to take away your madness So why do we take them?Drugs are drugs Stop pushing the drugs ... and offer real alternatives Promote Health and Well-being Serious problems ... but serious social problems World Health Organization and other definitions of mental well-being Policies to support well-being Psychologists, psychiatrists, individuals and well-being Get the basics right Five ways to mental well-being Be active ...Connect ...Keep learning ...Give ...Take notice ...Psychological processes Psychological therapy is not a different kind of drug IAPT - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Thinking errors?A new approach to psychological therapies Two steps forwards, only one step back Psychological therapies as part of integrated services Residential Care ... Not Medical Coercion A place of safety Physical health Social breakdown Where would YOU go in a crisis?Too much coercion?The law A psychosocial perspective Warrants Psychologists and compulsion Teamworking Access to and provision of services Teams, multidisciplinary teams and democratic multidisciplinary teams Psychologists Social workers Psychiatry Nursing Occupational therapists What's new?Social and Community Services in Local Authority Management Social agents in a social model The NHS Public health and mental health Support health and well-being, don't treat 'illness'Mental health care in an age of austerity Philosophies Radical measures Can We Afford It?Costs and savings The excitingly named 'transitional support funds'Greater investment in psychology, social workers, therapists Training and re-training New staff?Proper GP provision, proper physical healthcare Less 'disease model', fewer psychiatrists Less medication, fewer prescriptions A Manifesto for the Reform of Mental Health and Well-being Services The manifesto