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People with intellectual disabilities going missing
- Author:
- RICKFORD Richard
- Publisher:
- Missing People
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research aimed to explore the relationship between intellectual disabilities and going missing, with a view to offering better support to people who may be considered at risk of going missing. It draws data from the internal case management database of Missing People, a charity which provides confidential support, including the opportunity to reconnect, for missing people and their families. The findings showed that in 2009-10, 4.7% of the cases dealt with by Missing People involved a person with intellectual disabilities; considerably higher than the 2% of the UK population estimated to have intellectual disabilities. Various characteristics of the missing people with intellectual disabilities were calculated using different samples, including gender, age, accommodation, mental health, and addiction. In nearly one-third of the cases where an intellectual disability was indicated, there was also a concern for the missing person’s mental wellbeing. In 15% of cases, there was evidence that the missing person had a fascination with public transport or that their journey had been disrupted. In another 22% there was evidence that the missing person had arranged to meet a stranger; a number of which had been contacted via the internet. Recommendations are made for policy and further research.
Gender differences in risk factors for suicide in Denmark
- Authors:
- QIN Ping, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, December 2000, pp.546-550.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Gender is one of the most frequently replicated predictors for suicide. This Danish study aims to identify risk factors for suicide among males and females and to investigate whether risk factors for suicide differ by gender. A history of hospitalised mental illness was the most marked risk factor for suicide for both genders. Unemployment, retirement, being single and sickness absence were significant risk factors for men, whereas having a child 2 years old was significantly protective for women. The relative risks for suicide differed significantly between genders according to psychiatric admission status and being the parent of a child 2 years. However, adjustment for these factors did not eliminate the gender difference in suicide risk.
Gender differences in depression: critical review
- Authors:
- PICCINELLI Marco, WILKINSON Greg
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, December 2000, pp.486-492.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
With few exceptions, the prevalence, incidence and morbidity risk of depressive disorders are higher in females than in males, beginning at mid-puberty and persisting through adult life. This article reviews putative risk factors leading to gender differences in depressive disorders. It is a critical review of the literature, dealing separately with artefactual and genuine determinants of gender differences in depressive disorders. Findings show that determinants of gender differences in depressive disorders are far from being established and their combination into integrated aetiological models continues to be lacking.
Conditions for women in in-patient psychiatric units: the Mental Health Act Commission 1996 national visit
- Authors:
- WARNER Lesley, FORD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 1(7), March 1998, pp.225-228.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
All NHS services are expected to make in-patient wards single-sex. However, as the authors report, women in psychiatric hospitals still have to share sleeping accommodation with men, and still experience sexual harassment, violence, threat and abuse. Some units are unable even to guarantee 24-hour access to a female member of staff.
Stalkers and their victims
- Authors:
- MULLEN Paul E., PATHE Michele, PURCELL Rosemary
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 321p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Over recent years stalking has emerged as a major social and legal issue and also a clinical problem for mental health professionals. The authors describe their experience of working with stalkers and their victims in a clinical setting, and contribute to an understanding of the nature, causes, impact and management of stalking behaviour. Contents include: stalking, a new categorisation of human behaviour; the epidemiology of stalking; victims of stalkers; classifying stalking; the rejected stalker and the resentful stalker; the predatory stalker; intimacy seekers an incompetent suitors; erotomanias and morbid infatuations; same gender stalking; stalking by proxy; false victims of stalking; stalking and assault; reducing the impact of stalking; defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking.
Inequalities in mental health
- Authors:
- HENDERSON Claire, THORNICROFT Graham, GLOVER Gyles
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 173, August 1998, pp.105-109.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Aims to summarise the relevant research on rate of psychiatric morbidity within the general population, and define specific populations at high risk of mental disorder. The theories put forward to account for these inequalities are considered, noting the limitations of the data they are based on and highlighting their implications for the data required to facilitate further research. Inequalities in access, provision and appropriateness of services are also discussed. Makes policy recommendations for reducing these inequalities at national, regional and district levels.
Implementing adult protection policies in Kent and East Sussex
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, STEIN June
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 27(3), July 1998, pp.371-396.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Reports on the extent and nature of adult protection cases dealt with by two social services departments during a twelve month period in 1995-6, within the framework of newly revised generic policies on abuse of vulnerable adults. The two counties varied in the level of reporting documented and in the number of cases logged for individuals who fall within the main four groups of 'vulnerable adults' covered by the policies. Arguments for consistent reporting are set out and the tension which exists between formal and informal approaches to the subsequent investigation of abuse discussed with reference to American vulnerable adult statutes.
Psychiatric care in the community: does it fail young men?
- Author:
- PAYNE Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 24(2), April 1996, pp.193-205.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Much of the interest in community care has stemmed from a feminist concern with the burdens placed on women as carers and, more recently, the needs of women who are cared as well as those carrying out caring work. Less has been written on the extent to which community care policy meets the different needs of men and women. This article draws on qualitative interview material to explore issues surrounding community psychiatric care for younger people, against a backdrop of increasing over-representation of men in hospital admissions, and asks how far community psychiatric care fails young men more than young women.