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Development of services for people with a learning disability or mental illness in Northern Ireland: sixth report prepared pursuant to Section 10 of the Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1989
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health and Social Services
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health and social security: the case of the incapacity benefit in Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- PRIOR Pauline M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 6(2), March 1998, pp.71-77.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Although mental illness affects people from all income levels, a significant proportion of discharged psychiatric patients rely heavily on the benefit system. Therefore, changes in benefit entitlement are of great concern to these people who already find this system difficult to use. Reports on the views of individuals with mental health problems and of five organisations involved in advocacy work on the introduction of the Incapacity Benefit. These views raised serious questions about the extent to which the benefit system meets the needs of claimants with mental health problems, on the relevance of the models of disability used in sickness benefits, and on the impact of the Incapacity Benefit and the Job Seeker's Allowance on people with mental health problems and confirmed the need for further research.
Mental health social work in Ireland: comparative issues in policy and practice
- Editors:
- CAMPBELL Jim, MANKTELOW Roger
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 189p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Contains chapters on: a history of mental health in Northern Ireland; mental health policy in the Republic of Ireland; mental health social work and the law in Northern Ireland; mental health social work and the law in the Republic of Ireland; community care and the social inclusion of individuals with psychiatric disabilities in Northern Ireland; deinstitutionalisation in the Republic of Ireland; mental health social work and addictions in the Republic and Northern Ireland; and mental health social work and older people.
A tale of four cities
- Author:
- ADAMS Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 5.2.98, 1998, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Describes life for patients and staff at five inner-city general practitioners in Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow and London.
From rhetoric to reality: perspectives of mental health users on the development of a user forum in South and East Belfast
- Authors:
- McCULLOUGH Billy, HASSON Felicity
- Journal article citation:
- Breakthrough, 2(3), 1998, pp.5-14.
The concept of empowerment for users of mental health services is regularly debated. This article seeks to evaluate the developing process and difficulties of a user forum set up in South and East Belfast based on collaborative arrangements between statutory Social Services and a voluntary agency, the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health (NIAMH). The research focuses specifically on the views of users through a series of interviews with already established groups and individuals from within the community and hospital.