Cover -- Preventing Mental Illness in Practice -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Targeting Vulnerable Individuals -- Helping People to Take Control over Their Own Lives -- Making Maximum Use of Natural, Voluntary and Community Support Networks -- Disease Models and Transitionary Periods -- Schizophrenia -- Causes of Depression: The Bedford College Model -- The Significance of the Research -- Opportunities for Prevention -- A Note About Prevention -- 1. Preventive Work with Under-Fives and Their Families -- Prediction and Early Identification of Parenting Difficulties, Abuse and Neglect -- Optimum Support -- A Brief Outline of Some Innovative Projects and Services -- The Child Development Programme -- Befriending Mothers: Newpin -- Conclusion -- 2. Adolescence to Independence -- Possibilities for Early Preventive Work by Schools -- Preventive Work After School-Leaving Age -- Young People Leaving Care: Some Statistics -- Optimum Support -- Minimising Risk: 1-Support During the Transition to Independence: Bradford After-Care Team -- Minimising Risk: 2-Support During and After Pregnancy -- St Michael's Hostels, South London -- Related Issues: Education -- Summary -- 3. Supporting People Through Crises -- Detecting Psychiatric Symptoms in General Practice -- What Sort of Help Is Needed by Patients Dealing with Crisis ? -- Access to Resources -- 4. Preventing Relapse in Schizophrenia -- Introduction -- Preventive Interventions with Sufferers of Schizophrenia and Their Families: The Research -- Preventive Interventions with People Treated for Schizophrenia and Their Families: The Practice -- A Support Group for Those Living with Someone with Schizophrenia -- A Comprehensive Prevention Programme as a Component of a Mental Illness Treatment Service: West Birmingham -- Conclusion.

5. Preventing Mental Illnesses Among Elderly Persons -- The Development of Mental Illness in Old Age -- Focus of This Chapter -- Frailty, Support and Independence -- Hawthorne House -- The Kent/Gateshead Community Care Scheme -- Summary -- Conclusions: Prospects, Pitfalls and Possibilities -- Factors Influencing Effectiveness -- Possibilities: Lessons About Method -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.