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Changes in public attitudes to depression during the Defeat Depression Campaign
- Authors:
- PAYKEL E.S., HART D., PRIEST R.G.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 173, December 1998, pp.519-522.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The aims of the Defeat Depression Campaign between 1991 and 1996 included the reduction of stigma associated with depression, education of the public about the disorder and its treatment and encouragement of earlier treatment-seeking. Newspaper and magazine articles, radio and television programmes and other media activities were employed to achieve this. Evaluates the success of the campaign using the results of MORI surveys, whose structured interviews covered views on depression, treatment and GPs. Concludes that positive attitude change was achieved during the campaign, although there is still room for improvement.
Outdated practitioner views about family culpability and severe mental disorders
- Authors:
- RUBIN Allen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 43(5), September 1998, pp.412-422.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Current theories and research about the aetiology and treatment of psychotic disorders increasingly point to the importance of biological factors. Accompanying this shift in the etiological literature has been accumulation of evidence indicating the need to move away from treatment modalities that make families of people with psychotic disorders feel culpable in the causation or perpetuation of their relatives' disorders. This article reports the development of a reliable and valid scale to assess the extent to which practitioners have made this shift. It also reports on two surveys, the findings of which imply grounds for concern about what many practitioners do when working with clients with severe and persistent mental illness and their families.
Moving child mental health from the margins to the core
- Author:
- FOSTER Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, June 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Practice and attitudes to young people with mental health needs are changing. The author looks back to social work experiences which illustrate how social workers can overlook their problems, and forward to the need for more informed practice.
Changing the face of mental illness
- Author:
- GOULD Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 13.5.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that changing public perceptions of people with mental health problems is a crucial part of solving the problems of care in the community.
Mental health and social security: the case of the incapacity benefit in Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- PRIOR Pauline M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 6(2), March 1998, pp.71-77.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Although mental illness affects people from all income levels, a significant proportion of discharged psychiatric patients rely heavily on the benefit system. Therefore, changes in benefit entitlement are of great concern to these people who already find this system difficult to use. Reports on the views of individuals with mental health problems and of five organisations involved in advocacy work on the introduction of the Incapacity Benefit. These views raised serious questions about the extent to which the benefit system meets the needs of claimants with mental health problems, on the relevance of the models of disability used in sickness benefits, and on the impact of the Incapacity Benefit and the Job Seeker's Allowance on people with mental health problems and confirmed the need for further research.
Do you see what I see?
- Author:
- RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 94, November 1998, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- MIND
When it comes to perceptions of risk, research has shown that it's all in the eye of the beholder. Reports on the results of a survey, of those within the mental health arena, to investigate how risks were perceived. Discusses the results in relation to gender, professional differences and stakeholder differences.
A qualitative study of adjustment to caring for an older spouse with psychiatric illness
- Authors:
- MURRAY Joanna, LIVINGSTON Gill
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 18(6), November 1998, pp.659-671.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
An understanding of the ways in which older carers perceptions of their marital relationship and duty to their spouse underlie adjustment to care giving is required for the development of acceptable and efficacious services for spouse carers. With this aim the authors conducted qualitative interviews with spouses of older people with a mental illness identified in a representative community study. Those who still experience closeness in the relationship see themselves as coping and are reluctant to accept formal help. Others describe long term unhappiness in marriage and experience feeling of entrapment in role of the carer. They require early and comprehensive services. Hypotheses regarding these themes are proposed.
Continental rift
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(2), October 1998, pp.48-50.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on the results of a survey conducted by the UK based Breakthrough journal on what the words 'mental illness' mean to the public in Europe.
Calls to rethink 'dustbin service'
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.10.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government is to reprieve the special hospitals for severely mentally ill people. Reports on how campaigners believe that many residents should not be there.
Cycle of alienation
- Authors:
- HILLIS Gina, McCLELLAND Norman
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 30.9.98, 1998, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Forensic community mental health nurses have a particularly tough task trying to get other professionals and the public to accept their clients. Argues that wrong attitudes simply reinforce the vicious circle of antisocial behaviour.