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A fit person to be removed: personal accounts of life in a mental deficiency institution
- Authors:
- POTTS Maggie, FIDO Rebecca
- Publisher:
- Northcote House
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 152p.
- Place of publication:
- Plymouth
17 long term residents speak about their experiences of institutional life and their ways of coping.
MIETS: a service option for people with mild mental handicaps and challenging behaviour or psychiatric problems. 2: Assessment, treatment and outcomes for service users and service effectiveness
- Authors:
- MURPHY Glynis, CLARE Isabel
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 4(2), 1991, pp.180-206.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Describes the assessment and treatment programmes of two service users to illustrate the Mental Impairment Evaluation and Treatment Service approach, and gives details of the skill profiles which were used to plan their future placements. Data on the behavioural characteristics of MIETS users at pre-admission and discharge are also presented, together with a discussion of the difficulty of using such measures to evaluate service effectiveness.
MIETS: a service option for people with mild mental handicaps and challenging behaviour or psychiatric problems. 1: Philosophy, service, and service users
- Authors:
- MURPHY G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 4(1), 1991, pp.41-66.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Explains how the Mental Impairment Evaluation and Treatment Service operates, the referral and assessment procedures, and evaluation of quality of life.