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Responding to need
- Authors:
- LEAR K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 11.12.91, 1991, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes case management in a joint finance scheme in Hastings which provides community care for people with a long-term mental illness.
A marriage of convenience?
- Author:
- PELIKAN Cathy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.9.91, 1991, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Questions whether the principles of the old-style psychiatric institutions aren't being transferred carte blanche into care in the community services.
The social worlds of psychiatric and ex-psychiatric patients in Belfast
- Author:
- PRIOR Lindsay
- Publisher:
- Queen's University. Health and Health Care Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 64p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Sociological study designed to compare the everyday experiences of long term psychiatric in-patients with those of ex-patients living in the community.
Theory and practice of psychiatric rehabilitation
- Editors:
- WATTS Fraser N., BENNETT Douglas H.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 396p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Looks at the needs of the psychiatric patient when maintaining or re-acquiring a normal life in the community. Looks at social and domestic roles, employment, and at new forms of community based rehabilitation. Places rehabilitation practice in a broad historical and international context.
Community care: services for people with a mental handicap and people with a mental illness; Government response to the eleventh report from the Social Services Committee session 1989-90
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- HMSO/Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Community care in Scotland: specific grant for mental illness 1991-92: applications and approvals; and notes on completing the application forms
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Scottish Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The social care directive: development of a quality of life profile for use in community services for the mentally ill
- Author:
- OLIVER J.P.J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 3(1), 1991, pp.5-45.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Reports on the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile, including a copy of the questionnaire used for piloting and a set of staff instructions.
Sticking a plaster on the housing disaster
- Author:
- DOBSON Julian
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 22.8.91, 1991, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Describes achievements and problems of the Department of Health homelessness initiative in London Boroughs: community psychiatric teams contact homeless people with mental illness, place them in hostels and later in permanent homes.
Job satisfaction?
- Authors:
- CARSON J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 1.8.91, 1991, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on a survey of chronically mentally ill people employed in sheltered work units managed by the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association which elicited positive responses to job satisfaction and social companionship; argues that such schemes can make an important contribution to community care.
Caring for mentally disabled people in Scotland
- Author:
- TITTERTON M.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 25(2), June 1991, pp.136-148.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes differences in policy and practice from the situation in England and Wales in caring for the young mentally disabled.