Sotsial'naya rabota s litsami, stradayushchimi psikhicheskimi zabolevaniyami

V nastoyashchee vremya okolo 450 millionov chelovek stradayut ot psikhicheskikh ili psikhonevrologicheskikh narusheniy, ili ot takikh psikhosotsial'nykh problem, kotorye svyazany s alkogolizmom i narkomaniey. Psikhicheskie rasstroystva yavlyayutsya odnoy iz vedushchikh prichin invalidnosti v mire, zanimayut chetvertoe mesto, ustupaya lish' serdechno-sosudistym, zlokachestvennym novoobrazovaniyam i travmam. Odnako po dlitel'nosti sroka invalidnosti psikhicheskie zabolevaniya zanimayut pervoe mesto.Vazhnoy sostavnoy chast'yu sotsial'noy raboty s invalidami yavlyaetsya mediko-sotsial'naya reabilitatsiya, v sistemu kotoroy vkhodyat ustranenie somaticheskikh zabolevaniy, psikhopatologicheskikh rasstroystv, ukhod za patsientami,obespechenie ikh normal'noy fiziologicheskoy zhiznedeyatel'nosti, zashchita ikh prav i interesov,rabota s sotsial'nym okruzheniem. Ne sluchayno sotsial'naya rabota opredelyaetsya VOZ kak deyatel'nost', blizkaya vrachebnoy. Esli osnovnaya tsel' psikhiatra -vosstanovlenie u patsienta psikhicheskogo zdorov'ya, to osnovnaya tsel' spetsialista po sotsial'noy rabote, rabotayushchego v psikhiatrii - vosstanovlenie sotsial'nogo statusa patsienta. Kniga prednaznachena dlya sotsial'nykh rabotnikov, rabotayushchikh v sisteme zdravookhraneniya i sotsial'noy zashchity naseleniya.