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"Whole System Working" is an approach that enables people to find sustainable solutions to local problems. It is also a theoretical approach to organizational development that views groups of people who share a common purpose as a "living system". Based on King's Fund work over four years with health agencies…

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I have devoted much of my life to teaching medical students about mental illness and medical ethics, and this edited book is the best source for recommending films that are appropriate for the classroom. Medical students don’t have enough free time to watch entire films, but they love it when I bring in clips that illustrate schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, for example.

I found the book especially helpful for teaching interviewing skills–it is far less threatening for students to see examples of bad practice than to have these same behaviors pop up in clinical settings or in role-playing scenarios. 

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