Summarises the results of a brief questionnaire on how other European countries manage the community care of violent people with mental health problems.
Summarises the results of a brief questionnaire on how other European countries manage the community care of violent people with mental health problems.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, mental health services, risk, surveys, violence, community care;
International Social Work, 43(3), July 2000, pp.325-336.
Publisher:
Sage
This article presents the findings of a study of ex-psychiatric patients in a community care centre in Denmark. Participant observation was used in combination with qualitative and semi-structured interviews. It marks the first part of a research project to develop a sociological understanding of social relations and interaction patterns among people with mental illness living outside institutions. The study describes and analyses the social community, norm and value systems and explains them scientifically as amounting to a mutual or social coping situation.
This article presents the findings of a study of ex-psychiatric patients in a community care centre in Denmark. Participant observation was used in combination with qualitative and semi-structured interviews. It marks the first part of a research project to develop a sociological understanding of social relations and interaction patterns among people with mental illness living outside institutions. The study describes and analyses the social community, norm and value systems and explains them scientifically as amounting to a mutual or social coping situation.
Subject terms:
interprofessional relations, mental health problems, research ethics, service users, social networks, attitudes, community care, day centres, ethics;
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.
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.
Subject terms:
law, mental health, mental health problems, mental health services, psychiatry, social care provision, treatment, therapy and treatment, training, attitudes, community care, diagnosis, families;