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Breaking the cycle of disadvantage: young people, social exclusion and mental health
- Authors:
- PRITCHARD Colin, MASON Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.14-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Social exclusion begins in childhood, with poor parenting, truancy and disrupted education. The effects can be catastrophic, for the individual and society, and are not infrequently implicated in mental illness in adulthood. Reports the findings of three linked research projects into the social and financial costs of social exclusion among young people. The studies show that rates of crime, suicide and unexpected death are highest among the most excluded, but that the cycle of disadvantage can be broken by practical, school-based preventive intervention.
Seclusion: the use of a stress model to appraise the problem
- Author:
- MASON Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 29.11.95, 1995, pp.31-33.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Raises the issue of the use of seclusion in psychiatric practice. The literature suggests an impasse in understanding the thorny problem of the issue of controlling measures in the management of the violent and aggressive individual. Presents a new model which deals with the issue of staff fear in relation to the decision to use seclusion.