Understanding Self-Neglect

This book will assist health and social care professionals to improve and open up further awareness of the characteristics of self-neglect.

Roy Antrobus has been involved in practice settings for over 20 years as a Social Worker and qualified Best Interests Assessor. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Lancaster University.

0.Introduction. 1.Self-neglect - Introduction of PECCs - Personal, Environmental, Community Circumstances. 2.What's behind the Headlines. 3. Interactive conversations. 4. What happens before you get there - pre-actions and perceptions. 5.Legal and Human Rights. 6.Self-Neglect and biases. 7. Dirt and hygiene. 8.Feelings and Emotions. 9.Self-Neglect and the Visual. 10.Categorisation of Self-Neglect.