This series of articles asks the following questions: What is going on in mental health? Is the history of psychiatry in the 20th century any more than a see-saw between the asylums and the community, each swing being driven by economics and fashion rather than therapeutics and patient well-being? Why do nurses work the way they do? What might be lost from the nursing repertoire? Presents answers from mental health professionals.
This series of articles asks the following questions: What is going on in mental health? Is the history of psychiatry in the 20th century any more than a see-saw between the asylums and the community, each swing being driven by economics and fashion rather than therapeutics and patient well-being? Why do nurses work the way they do? What might be lost from the nursing repertoire? Presents answers from mental health professionals.
Subject terms:
mental health, mental health problems, mental health services, nursing, psychiatry, community care, community mental health nurses, community mental health services, evaluation;