Beyond Best Practice explores a practitioner's work at self-development. It tells the story of discovering the many ways that the service user's voice can inform and improve services at all levels.
"In the volume Beyond Best Practice: How Mental Health Services Can Be Better, Birgit Valla and David Prescott tackle the foremost issue in mental health services. ?As therapists and mental health workers, we strive to provide the best possible service to our clients. ?Unfortunately, this is not an easy task: ?therapists generally do not improve over the course of their careers and systems of care often are bureaucratic institutions that unintentionally obstruct change and innovation. ? Valla and Prescott discuss how we (therapists, administrators, and policy makers) can change mental health services to be more effective. ?The authors "walk the talk" so to speak, because over the years they have successfully improved mental health services in their work places. ?This volume is not only informative-it is inspiring."
Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, ABPP,?University of Wisconsin, Madison and Modum Bad Psychiatric Center, Norway. ?????
"15 years from now, we will realise that we have got it wrong about a lot of things in mental health care. Birgit Villa and David Prescott point us in the direction that we need to go. They have got it right. Buy 10 copies of this book and give them to your colleagues. This book is a conversation-piece we need to have."
Daryl Chow, PhD, Author of The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy
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"This book represents ground-breaking ideas about how to think differently about mental health care all over the world. With these ideas Birgit Valla has managed to change the entire system in her home town in Norway. This book is a must-read for anybody interested in delivering better services to the people seeking help from mental health care professionals."
Susanne Bargmann, psychologist, author, trainer and international speaker, Denmark
