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Personality disorder: the limits to intervention
- Author:
- BURTON A.
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 4(4), 1990, pp.221-228.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Examines the theoretical knowledge about personality disorder; reports a case history and two different social work approaches to the client's problems.
Crisis intervention: users' views of a community mental health service
- Author:
- CANTLEY C.
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 8(1), 1990, pp.1-6.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Describes the work of the Coventry Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team , users' perceptions of the service and implications of service developments.
Critique of a mental health admissions diagnostic system: an example of an expert system in all ill-structured domain
- Author:
- RAVETZ J.
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 5(1), Summer 1990, pp.12-15.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
Describes the diagnostic system, possible uses by social workers and implications for the human - computer interface.
Assessing for compulsory detention: applying the social perspective?
- Author:
- BARNES M.
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 8(1), 1990, pp.14-19.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Draws together key findings of the SSRG project to monitor the implementation of the 1983 Mental Health Act; concludes that medical perspectives still predominate over social explanations of mental disorder.
Groupwork with hospital in-patients
- Authors:
- SCRIMSHAW Lynne, BISHOP Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 4(3), 1990, pp.173-183.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes the development of a project in a psychiatric hospital over six years - aims, techniques, and methods of supervision.
Violence and mental illness: some implications for social workers
- Author:
- ACTON Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 4(4), 1990, pp.285-296.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Reviews the literature on violence to staff to identify way in which social workers can assess short term and long term risks.
Parenting for children of schizophrenic mothers
- Author:
- WEBSTER J.
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 14(2), 1990, pp.37-43.
- Publisher:
- Sage
A study of the consequences for the children in terms of adoption or foster care, other forms of child care, the role of fathers and the extended family.