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The community of strangers: supervision and the new right
- Author:
- ATKINSON Jacqueline
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(2), March 1996, pp.122-125.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament on 17 November 1994 introduced the Mental Health (Supervised Discharge) Bill which will seek to strengthen the powers of supervision for those detailed under the 1983 Mental Health Act. The debate over the legal control of people with mental health illness, which has previously focussed on confinement in hospital, now has to consider whether legal control over people living in the community, including supervision registers and supervised discharge, is acceptable. This article illustrated the issues involved in this debate.
Mental health and learning disability
- Authors:
- CARPENTER David, TURNBULL John, KAY Alan
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 81p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Open learning module. Part 1 introduces the principles of mental health nursing, exploring some of the complex philosophical, social and professional issues around mental health services. Part 2 introduces similar topics related to learning difficulties.
Tinkering as collective practice: a qualitative study on handling ethical tensions in supporting people with intellectual or psychiatric disabilities
- Authors:
- HEERINGS Marjolijn, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 16(1), 2022, pp.36-53.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
The values of patient autonomy and community participation have become central in health care. However, care practices involve a plurality of possibly conflicting values. These values often transgress the borders of the individual professional-client relationship as they involve family members, other professionals and community organisations. Good care should acknowledge this relational complexity, which requires a collective handling of the tensions between values. To better understand this process, we draw on [Mol, A. 2008. The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice. Routledge; Mol, A., I. Moser, and J. Pols. 2010a. Care in Practice: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms. Transcript Verlag.) by developing the notion of collective tinkering. An ethnographic study was conducted in two teams in community housing services for people with Intellectual Disabilities and Severe Mental Illness. Collective tinkering is analysed (1) within teams; (2) between professionals, family members and professionals from different organisations providing care for the same client; and (3) in organising practices for a collective of clients. Collective tinkering involves assembling goods into a care practice, attentively experimenting with these care practices, and adjusting care accordingly within a collective of those involved in care for a particular client (group). When collective tinkering does not occur, the stakeholders excluded (e.g. clients or family members) may experience poor quality of care. (Edited publisher abstract)
The legislative tenets of client's right to treatment in the least restrictive environment and freedom from harm: implications for community providers
- Authors:
- THOMAS Douglas A, CHAPLIN Rosemary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 36(6), December 2000, pp.545-556.
- Publisher:
- Springer
For over four decades, US legislation has supported efforts to move people with severe mental illness from hospital into community based services. However, the legal protections remain inconsistent. This article analyses the relevant case law and attempts to establish similarities between the state hospital's duty to protect its patients and they responsibility of community mental health centres to do so for people they serve. The authors argue that the client's right to freedom from harm must receive increased attention and community based service providers will have to enhance their capacity to deliver more effective risk management services if mental health reform is to become a successful social policy.
Interaction patterns among users of a Danish community care centre
- Author:
- KRISTIANSEN Soren
- Journal article citation:
- 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.
Paternalistic intervention in mental health care
- Author:
- CHAN Pam
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 9.9.98, 1998, pp.52-53.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article considers the relevance of paternalism in the care of people with impaired capacity. The author uses the finding of the Ritchie report as a vehicle to ask whether promoting autonomy may require the measured use of paternalistic intervention. Nurses may need to reconcile the public of the control function of mental health services with their professional assumptions about their therapeutic relationship with patients.
Ethical issues in mental health
- Author:
- DUNN Caroline
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 207p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Research study looking at the ethical issues raised by mental illness. Contains chapters on: mental illness and autonomy; autonomy and treatment models of mental illness; involuntary hospitalisation and treatment; psychotropic medication; ECT and psychosurgery; psychotherapy; and community care.
Bound to secrecy
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.4.96, 1996, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The need to provide a service for mentally ill people must be balanced with the need to protect the public, and to this end, information must be disseminated, the author reports.
Role of risk assessment in reducing homicides by people with mental illness
- Authors:
- MUNRO Eileen, RUMGAY Judith
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 176, February 2000, pp.116-120.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Improved risk assessment has been stressed as the way to reduce homicides by people with mental illness. The feasibility of predicting rare events needs examining. This article examines the findings of public inquiries into homicides by people with mental illness to see if they support the claim that better risk assessment would have averted the tragedy. Improved risk assessment has only a limited role in reducing homicides.
Mental health: care and support cannot co-exist with close control
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(2), December 1999, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The author argues that the Government must take a new approach towards its policy on public safety and mental health if it is to avoid a practical and political failure. Works with Open Services Project, a user-led research and development project, and is a long-term user of mental health services.