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The new Mental Health Act: a guide to emergency and short-term powers: information for service users and their carers
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This guide is one in a series about the new the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, which came into effect in October 2005. This guide focuses on emergency and short-term powers. This guide is written for people who have a mental disorder, but it may be of interest to others including carers and advocacy workers.
Mental health at the crossroads: the promise of the psychosocial approach
- Editors:
- RAMON Shulamit, WILLIAMS Janet E., (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 235p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book is a challenge to the enduring status and domination of bio-medical approaches in mental health services. Contributors from four continents argue that this domination, along with modernization and multidisciplinary work, will not improve people's lives unless social and psychological perspectives are appreciated and integrated. This implies new forms of relationships and social arrangements. The book presents an analysis of the psychosocial approach as it resonates across the discipline divide, considering the past and future development. It is written from the perspectives of service users and carers, managers, practitioners, educators, researchers and policy makers, illustrated with case studies from Australia, Brazil, Italy, UK and the USA. This book presents an alternative approach to conventional thinking in mental health, providing perspectives, grounded in theory with practice examples, in order to influence the current agenda and change practice.
Improving the mental health of the population: towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union: green paper
- Author:
- EUROPE. Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General
- Publisher:
- European Commission
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- Brussels
The Green paper aims to launch a public consultation on how better to tackle mental illness and promote mental wellbeing in the EU, in line with the mandate for action at Community level. If confirmed, the initiative should lead to the development of a Commission proposal for an EU-strategy on mental health in late 2006.
Living without marbles
- Author:
- HILL Clare
- Publisher:
- Chipmunkapublishing
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Brentwood
This book is intended to provide an insight into what it is like living with mental health problems, from the perspective of the sufferer. There are true stories, a commentary throughout the book by a manic depressive and poetry. It is difficult to explain to friends, carers or health professionals the way it actually feels to have a mental illness. This book may help by giving people a clearer understanding.
Mental health in learning disabilities: a reader
- Editors:
- HOLT Geraldine, HARDY Steve, BOURAS Nick, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 223p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
This book, like its previous editions, aims to provide the reader with up-to-date information on mental health problems in people with learning disabilities and associated issues. It has been updated and extended with six additional chapters, to reflect latest developments in services and treatment.
A holistic approach to black and minority ethnic mental health: the letting through light training pack
- Author:
- FERNS Peter
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 91p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Based on the Letting Through Light training pack, this innovative resource has been developed to enable practitioners to provide better and more appropriate services to Black and minority ethnic (BME) people experiencing mental distress. A holistic approach to Black and minority ethnic mental health includes trainers’ instructions, a series of exercises and photocopiable masters of readings, handouts and OHPs, for five workshops.
Women and mental health: turning rhetoric into reality: sharing practice perspectives and strategies for action on women's mental health: notes from study day 2nd March 2005
- Authors:
- KNOWLES Karen, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Perspectives Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 110p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents the findings from the study day on women’s mental health in March 2005 at the London Voluntary Resource Centre in Holloway, North London. This event was hosted jointly by the Social Perspectives Network (SPN) and the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (SCMH) The emphasis in these papers given to listening to women’s stories and believing them is particularly relevant following the recent publication of the Kerr / Haslam Inquiry’. The main aim of the day was to create an environment in which information could be exchanged and practical strategies for delivering gender sensitive services explored.
Making sense of coming off psychiatric drugs
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Many people want to come off their psychiatric medication. This booklet looks at why these medicines are prescribed, the possible effects of coming off them, the best way to withdraw successfully, and how to tell the difference between withdrawal and relapse.
Coping with coming off: Mind's research into the experience of people trying to come off psychiatric drugs
- Author:
- READ Jim
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report reveals serious difficulties in the doctor-patient relationship in the struggle to come off psychiatric drugs. It is a research study about people's experiences of coming off, or trying to come off, psychiatric drugs. It is based on a survey of over 200 people and depth interviews. GPs give little support to millions of patients who would like to come off antidepressants because they cannot stand the side-effects.
New thinking about mental health and employment
- Authors:
- GROVE Bob, SECKER Jenny, SEEBOHM Patience, (eds)
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 162p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Until recently it has been assumed that people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems are unable to work, unless or until they recover. That assumption is now being challenged by international research demonstrating that, with the right support, people can succeed in finding and keeping a job even when they continue to need support from mental health services. This book draws together the research undertaken to date and combines it with mental health service users’ perspectives on the workplace to validate key points.