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Abuse in mental health services: some theoretical considerations
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Jennie, KEATING Frank
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 2(3), September 2000, pp.32-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The mental health field is viewed by some as reluctant to tackle the problem of abuse. While 'adult protection' offers one way forward, the authors of this paper caution against over-enthusiastic borrowing from this paradigm. Instead they argue that mental health services will only become intolerant of abuse when there is widespread acceptance of the role of power abuse in psychological distress and disturbance.
Social perspectives in mental health: developing social models to understand and work with mental distress
- Editor:
- TEW Jerry
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 240p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
The book offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This interdisciplinary volume promotes a holistic approach to mental health practice, with an emphasis on recovery and empowerment, and on building on the experiences of service users. The contributors explore the impact of social factors, such as power, abuse, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, on the causes and experiences of mental health problems. It is also considered how concepts such as risk and recovery can be understood from a social perspective.
High time for justice
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 3.3.99, 1999, pp.64-66.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Not only are people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness vulnerable to assault, they tend not to be believed when it occurs. Discusses how the Home Office's new recommendations should help empower mental health service users.
Under-protection and over-protection: managing the risk of financial abuse
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, BRADLEY Greta
- Journal article citation:
- Breakthrough, 2(1), 1998, pp.35-43.
This article focuses on the issue of financial abuse, arguing that this has been comparatively neglected in work with users of mental health services. Using a case history approach it discusses the concept and definitions of financial abuse and the perspectives of practitioners working in community support services. Issues of gender and mental (in)capacity are raised and the discussion is placed in the context of current service organisations within the UK.