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Serious mental health problems in the community: policy, practice and research
- Editors:
- BROOKER Charlie, REPPER Julie
- Publisher:
- Balliere Tindall
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 336p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This resource offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary critical overview of the effect of policy framework, organizational structures, economic issues and the principles of "good" practice in the provision of community services for people with serious mental health problems. Combines research evidence and practical illustrations of approaches and interventions with informed comment on their efficacy and implementation in routine clinical practice. Chapters include key points, case studies, questions for reflection and discussion and suggested further reading.
Mental health and ethnicity: an Irish dimension
- Authors:
- BRACKEN Patrick J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 172, February 1998, pp.103-105.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The importance of issues such as ethnicity, culture and racism in relation to mental health is now well established and generally accepted in psychiatry. Looks at how there is now considerable evidence that of all the ethnic minorities in Britain, the Irish have the poorest record of both physical and mental health. Discusses the need for research within this community.
Forensic psychiatry, race and culture
- Authors:
- FERNANDO Suman, NDEGWA David, WILSON Melba
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 304p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores why forensic psychiatry services are not serving the multi-ethnic societies of Britain and the United States as they should. Discusses the concepts, theories and ideologies upon which forensic psychiatry is founded and explains why current problems are in part the result of a historic linking of race, schizophrenia and criminality in the minds of Western Europeans. Presents a survey of current clinical research into issues of race and forensic psychiatry and argues that the apparent contradictions in research findings and inquiry reports impact negatively on clinical practice. Also takes a detailed look at recent social policy on mental health, race and criminal justice and the way in which this influences and is influenced by public attitudes and pressures.