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Advocacy and mental health
- Author:
- EVANS Louise Rhian
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 46p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Introduces the concept of advocacy in mental health and goes on to discuss in detail the various different kinds of advocacy, how workers may fit into advocacy roles, and the real function of advocacy and how it may be valuable to people with mental health problems.
The Mental Health Act explained
- Authors:
- DOLAN Bridget, POWELL Debra
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 291p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide aims to make accessible every Point of Law in the Mental Health Act 1983. It consists of the complete text of the Act, in Section sequence, with each clause followed, unless self explanatory, by notes written by experts in the field. It therefore covers: hospital admission, patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence, consent to treatment, mental health review tribunals, removal and return of patients within the UK, management of property and affairs of patients, and miscellaneous functions and supplemental provisions.
Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Information about The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, which provides ways to manage the financial and welfare affairs of people who are unable to manage them for themselves. Suitable for professionals and lay people.
A question of choice
- Author:
- NATIONAL SCHIZOPHRENIA FELLOWSHIP
- Publisher:
- National Schizophrenia Fellowship
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There is a growing concern regarding the quality of communication between medical professionals and those who receive mental health services from them . One focus of this concern has been around how the medics convey information to their patients – or not. “A Question of Choice” surveyed the treatment experiences service users. At the basic level of talking about treatment, and taking steps to ensure correct administration of drugs, a third or more of users reported no communication from their doctor; while about two thirds reported being given no information on possible side effects of their treatment or being offered any choice of treatment.
The mental health handbook
- Author:
- POWELL Trevor
- Publisher:
- Speechmark
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 186p.
- Place of publication:
- Bicester
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This edition of the Mental Health Handbook has now been republished with many additions to the original work. It contains an expanded treasury of successful handouts to photocopy covering many areas of mental health rehabilitation: Stress, depression, changing habits and behaviour, anxiety, assertion and caring for others
Psychiatric morbidity among young offenders in England and Wales
- Authors:
- LADER Deborah, SINGLETON Nicola, MELTZER Howard
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents information on the mental health of young offenders from a survey of psychiatric morbidity among prisoners aged 16-64 in England an Wales. The survey was carried out between September and December 1997. It was commissioned by the Department of Health. The report brings together the data on prevalence of mental disorders among young offenders from the main report of the survey together with the results of additional analysis of service use, risk factors and social functioning which were previously only available for the prison population as a whole.
Psychiatry and the human condition
- Author:
- CHARLTON Bruce
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Medical Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 263p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Presents an alternative approach to psychiatric illness and its treatment. Psychiatry has the potential to help. In particular psychotropic drugs could enable more people to lead lives that are creative and fulfilled. But current classifications and treatments derive from a century old framework. Argues that obsolete categories of diseases and drugs should be scrapped, suggesting a new framework of understanding suggesting that clinical management should focus on the treatment of biologically valid symptoms and signs, and include a much larger role for self treatment.
A Stakeholder's approach to innovation in mental health services: a reader for the 21st century
- Editor:
- RAMON Shulamit
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 261p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Brings together the varied experiences of professionals and service users, working together to develop new and imaginative mental health services from concept to policy and practice. Looks at the need and opportunities for innovation, as well as identifying the barriers to it and offers suggestions and advice on how to avoid these barriers.
Responding effectively to students' mental health needs: project report
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, MANTHORPE Jill, BRADLEY Greta
- Publisher:
- University of Hull
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Hull
This project was funded under the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Special Initiative to Encourage High Quality Provision for Students with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities. This initiative offered higher education institutions (HEIs) support in developing their disability services to meet the demands of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 at a time when the numbers and diversity of the student population were increasing. Throughout the nineties, student counselling services regularly identified concerns about increasing levels of severe mental health problems in the student population, and, as academics, the project team were familiar with the high levels of anxiety generated by individual cases.
'Help me out, help me in': reprovisioning, resettlement and the scope for social inclusion in Scotland
- Author:
- SCOTTISH HOMES
- Publisher:
- Scottish Homes
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Study of resettlement in the community from long-stay hospitals, and the extent to which it has promoted inclusion