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In the frame
- Author:
- ROGERS Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 16.3.00, 2000, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Primary Care Groups (PCGs) will need to get to grips with mental health service provision at practice level if they are to implement the new national service framework. Reports on a survey of PCG's.
Police and psychiatrists: a case of professional dominance?
- Author:
- ROGERS Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 27(1), March 1993, pp.33-44.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Drawing on data from a recent study, and Freidson's theory of professional dominance, considers the contemporary nature of relationships between police officers and psychiatrists. The different strategies used by the two groups in attempting to control the management of a group of patients considered by both to be 'dirty work' is explored, as is the 'political' agenda of police/psychiatric relations in the context of current mental health policy.
Young black people and the juvenile justice system
- Author:
- ROGERS Anne
- Journal article citation:
- New Community, 16(1), 1989, pp.49-60.
- Publisher:
- Community Relations Commission
Findings of a survey show that while some progress has been made in areas of ethnic monitoring and anti-racist practice in "Alternative to Custody" schemes, the implementation of such practices has been patchy and there are regional variations.
A sociology of mental health and illness
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anne, PILGRIM David
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 327p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
This fourth edition updates existing chapters and contains a new chapter entitled ‘public health and the pursuit of happiness’ reflecting the recent focus on the creation of mentally healthy societies. The editors aim to further dismantle professional pretensions surrounding the mastery of mental health problems by focusing on the social, economic and political determinants of mental well-being and highlighting the recent and considerable changes in sociology, social psychiatry, policy analysis and therapeutic law. Chapters cover: Perspectives on mental health, including those from psychiatry, psychoanalysis and psychology; Stigma revisited and lay representations of mental health problems; Social class and mental health; Women and men; Race and ethnicity; Age and ageing; Mental health professions; Treatment of people with mental health problems; Organisation of mental health work; Psychiatry and legal control; and Users of mental health services.
A sociology of mental health and illness
- Authors:
- ROGERS Ann, PILGRIM David
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 269p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
The revised edition of this best-selling book provides a clear overview of the major aspects of the sociology of mental health and illness. As well as drawing upon a range of social theories and methods to illustrate its points, it provides the reader with information which is organized along dimensions of class, gender, race and age. The mental health professions are critically analysed and long standing debates about the role of legalism explored. Organizational aspects of psychiatry are examined as well as the growing relevance of community mental health work. The book ends with a discussion of the various ways in which psychiatric patients and their relatives can be understood in their social context.
Extinguishing the social?: state sponsored self-care policy and the Chronic Disease Self-management Programme
- Authors:
- KENDALL Elizabeth, ROGERS Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 22(2), March 2007, pp.129-143.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Chronic Disease Self-management Programme (CDSMP) is a psycho-educational programme designed to increase the capacity of people with chronic conditions to self-manage. This initiative forms an integral part of the 'Expert Patient Programme' in the UK and the 'Sharing Health Care' programme in Australia. The aim of this paper is to critically appraise the principles of the CDSMP as a national self-care policy initiative in the context of existing formations and ideological approaches to self-care. Although the CDSMP appears to promote a 'social model' of disability, particularly in its generic manifestation, the use of the notion of self-efficacy as a primary marker of change means that it ultimately falls back onto an individualistic approach. The latter ignores pre-existing traditions of self-help embedded within advanced welfare societies.. The authors argue that state sponsored polices about self-management would benefit from greater recognition of existing social knowledge and theories about how people respond to being diagnosed with a long-term condition.
More than technology and access: primary care patients' views on the use and non-use of health information in the Internet age
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anne, MEAD Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 12(2), March 2004, pp.102-110.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Over the past decade there has been considerable interest in the transmission of health information made available though the Internet with increasing confidence being placed in its potential power to transform communication, clinical practice and relationships with patients. Subsequent to the failure of a primary-care-based initiative designed to provide free assistance and access to health information via the Internet, a survey was conducted. Findings suggested that facilitating access to e-information is necessary, but not in itself sufficient, to encourage current non-users to start exploring. The qualitative study was aimed at exploring the way in which people use and perceive the utility of Internet information for managing health and illness and engaging with the health service system. Data was gathered from interviews and observations of a sample of 5 who had used a free primary-care-based Internet service and interviews with a sample of 12 drawn from a survey of patient attitudes to using the Internet for health information. The less-considered aspects of access and use of e-information for health matters related to the varied existing relationships respondents had to computers, health information and health professionals. One of the main reasons why some respondents do not use the Internet to access health information is related to a lack of perceived utility and pertinence for managing healthcare. The optimal and equitable use of the Internet as a means of complimenting health-service use will not emerge merely from increasing access to e-information. The potential for narrowing or increasing inequality between the information rich and poor needs to be viewed in a broader psychosocial context. The latter includes the nature of existing relationships which people have with the health service and the value placed on their own capacity to make use of information in managing their healthcare.
Mental disorder and violence: an empirical picture in context
- Authors:
- PILGRIM David, ROGERS Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 12(1), February 2003, pp.7-18.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The assumed relationship between mental disorder and violence is empirically contested and yet politicians remain concerned about the special threat which psychiatric patients allegedly pose to public safety. This paper aims to explore how this public policy scenario has arisen. The evidence about dangerousness in psychiatric populations is examined in relation to patient, ecological and socio-economic factors. Given that the above evidence provides only weak grounds for concern about psychiatric patients being disproportionately dangerous, the skewed policy discourse noted in the background is explained by describing three contextualising factors: public prejudice; the widening remit of deviance-control by psychiatry during the twentieth century; and inconsistent societal sanctions about dangerousness.
Mental health and inequality
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anne, PILGRIM David
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 278p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book examines the relationship between the knowledge base of mental health professionals, evidence about inequalities and mental health service utilization. Starting with a critical appraisal of traditional psychiatric epidemiology, it moves into an exploration of the inequalities created by familial and neighborhood influences, service contact and challenges during the life span. Controversies in mental health debates, about violence and different forms of psychiatric treatment, are discussed within a framework of social inequalities.
Some National Frameworks are more equal than others: implementing clinical governance for mental health in primary care groups and trusts
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anne, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 11(2), 2002, pp.199-212.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports the findings of a study concerned with the way in which Primary Care Groups (PCGs) and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) engaged with the Mental Health National Service Framework (NSF) as part of their remit to implement clinical governance. A qualitative multiple case study is reported which used semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis in a sample of 12 PCG and PCTs in England. Also explores the status given to the standards, and in particular examines how mental health is dealt with in comparison to coronary heart disease, which is also the subject of a NSF. The study found a general awareness of and support for the Mental Health NSF. However difficulties in responding to the Mental Health NSF related to the perceived clinical status and complexity of managing mental health problems at practice level (e.g. familiarity with and competence of General Practitioners (GPs) in managing the conditions), inter-agency working, clinical governance training and the feasibility of producing clear demonstrable mental health outcomes as part of performance management. Argues that while the NSF for mental health presents opportunities for establishing the principles of quality assurance and improvement in the area of mental health, it is in danger of being marginalized in the clinical governance agendas of new PCTs, because of an inability to compete on an equal footing with other clinical priorities.