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Self help and alternatives
- Author:
- LINDOW Vivien
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Factfile on self-help for people with mental health problems.
A survivor's guide to working in mental health services
- Authors:
- ROOKE-MATTHEWS Susan, LINDOW Vivien
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 32p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at people who have experienced the mental health system and are interested in working within it. Outlines: the difficulties and challenges facing user workers; recent changes in practice and policy; good practice recommendations for employers; and professional schemes and sources of support for user workers.
Purchasing mental health services: self-help alternatives
- Author:
- LINDOW Vivien
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 33p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at mental health services in the community, the mental health service user movement and at examples of self-help projects. Also examines the purchasing of self-help alternatives.
Home is where the heart is?
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, LINDOW Vivien
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 110, July 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Highlights some of the issues concerning housing for people deemed to be a risk to others.
Changing practice: mental health nursing and user empowerment
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Peter, LINDOW Vivien
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing/Mind
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at user involvement and user empowerment in the context of mental health nursing. Examines reasons for empowering users, and goes on to deal with individual empowerment, empowering people in collective activities, and how to empower users.
Bad form
- Authors:
- LINDOW Vivien, TAYLOR Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.6.95, 1995, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
People applying for disability living allowance face a major obstacle in the shape of the application form. Offers some help with completing the form.
Psychiatry: back to the USSR
- Author:
- LINDOW Vivien
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, April 1994, p.13.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Argues that the extension of the Mental Health Act for supervised discharge and the 'at risk' register both bring a loss of freedom and equality for psychiatric patients.
Self-help alternatives to mental health services
- Author:
- LINDOW Vivien
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 76p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the background to user controlled mental health services, how to organise them, the people involved, and finances. Lists examples of projects from the UK and other countries.
A special place for people in a special state of being: a conference report on crisis care in mental health
- Author:
- LINDOW Vivien
- Publisher:
- Bristol Survivor's Network
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Papers from a day organised by Bristol Survivors' Network, focusing in particular on a safe place to go during a 'mental health crisis'. Includes papers looking at the experience of mental health crisis, preventing a crisis, the behaviour and attitudes of mental health workers towards people experiencing a crisis, and hospitals and other existing crisis services. Other papers look at places to go that are not hospitals, examining: what is needed in a crisis house; the emotional atmosphere of a crisis house; medication; management arrangements; what kind of skills and support should be available; and issues about access to a safe house.
A chance for change
- Author:
- LINDOW Vivien
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.3.93, 1993, pp.33-34.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that community-based caring for people with mental health problems offers an opportunity to empower users - but only if old practices such as long-term drug therapy are challenged.