Reports on progress of the Icarus Project which investigated the nature and level of support in the community for children and parents in families where there is parental mental illness. The problem of providing satisfactory responses for such families is recognised not only across Europe but also in Australia as an issue of widespread concern. Discusses how the implications of the final report and the practical applications of such a model offer Australia the opportunity to redefine how adult mental health and child welfare services can work together with vulnerable families.
Reports on progress of the Icarus Project which investigated the nature and level of support in the community for children and parents in families where there is parental mental illness. The problem of providing satisfactory responses for such families is recognised not only across Europe but also in Australia as an issue of widespread concern. Discusses how the implications of the final report and the practical applications of such a model offer Australia the opportunity to redefine how adult mental health and child welfare services can work together with vulnerable families.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, intervention, mental health problems, mental health services, parents, child protection, community care, children, comparative studies, families, parental mental health;
Looks at empowerment in a community care context, from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Includes chapters on: self-help groups; self-help in Germany; an international perspective on peer support and advocacy; groups in the 3rd age; pensioners' forums; practical projects for empowering people in health and social welfare; the psychiatric system survivor movement; citizen advocacy with people with learning difficulties in Wales; the Self-Help Alliance; and effective support for self-help.
Looks at empowerment in a community care context, from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Includes chapters on: self-help groups; self-help in Germany; an international perspective on peer support and advocacy; groups in the 3rd age; pensioners' forums; practical projects for empowering people in health and social welfare; the psychiatric system survivor movement; citizen advocacy with people with learning difficulties in Wales; the Self-Help Alliance; and effective support for self-help.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mental health problems, older people, self-help, self-help groups, social care provision, survivors, advocacy, carers, community care, empowerment, health care;
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;