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Joining forces
- Author:
- CASSIDY Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 12.1.94, 1994, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on an initiative in the West Midlands which aimed to increase police officers' awareness of the needs of people with mental health problems.
Research on guardianship for mentally ill people: volume 2; findings and issues from a research project, and review of the previous research
- Author:
- COX Brian
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 134p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
My brother's keeper: the community response to the resettlement of former long stay psychiatric patients in a small town in Northern Ireland
- Author:
- MANKTELOW Roger
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 112p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Report from an action research project by a social worker working in the field of rehabilitation of people with mental health problems into the community. The development of community care services is described, as well as the lives of the former patients, and the attitudes of local people towards them.
Caring for mentally ill people in Europe
- Authors:
- VAN OS Jan, NEELEMAN Jan
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 5.11.94, 1994, pp.1218-1221.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Despite legislation to harmonise mental health practice throughout Europe and convergence in systems of training there remains an extraordinary diversity of psychiatric practice in Europe. Approaches to tackling substance misuse vary among nations; statistics on psychiatric morbidity are affected by different approaches to diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; attitudes towards mental illness show definite international differences. Everywhere, though, mental health care for patients with psychotic illness is a "cinderella service", and there is a general move towards care falling increasingly on the family and the community.