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After the fire
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.10.05, 2005, pp.48-49.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An emergency practitioner was part of a team that had to make some swift and sensitive decisions, in the wake of a house fire, about the mental health of a man who lives with his mother. This article looks at the risk assessment of the case.
Nursing home residents with borderline personality traits: clinical social work interventions
- Authors:
- HIMELICK Allison J., WALSH Joseph
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 37(1), 2002, pp.49-64.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Persons with borderline personality disorder often carry symptoms of that disorder into old age. Because this fact is not widely recognized, health care professionals including social workers often fail to appropriately assess and intervene with these persons in long-term care settings. The purposes of this paper are to review themanifestations of borderline personality traits in older adults and to describe how social workers can develop effective intervention strategies with them in long-term care settings. Two case studies of nursing home residents are included.
The welfare of children with mentally ill parents: learning from inter-country comparisons
- Authors:
- HETHERINGTON Rachael, BAISTOW Karen, KATZ Ilan, MESIE Jeffrey, TROWELL Judith
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 262p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Children with mentally ill parents have complex needs, and a wide range of mental health and social services may be involved. This can lead to problems of liaison and co-operation between different agencies and different disciplines. The study looks at different approaches to supporting families in ten European countries and one state in Australia. Common problems and effective responses are identified and used to build a European model of good practice, which takes into account the nature of the difficulties facing families and the strengths and weaknesses of national systems. The model is used as a basis for analysing the particular problems of the English system.