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Hospital discharge survey
- Author:
- McLEAN Catherine A
- Publisher:
- Essex. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 141p., tables., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chelmsford
A survey assessing quality of life of psychiatric patients released into the community.
Closing the asylum: the mental patient in modern society
- Author:
- BARHAM Peter
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 206p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the experiences in the community of people who have had a severe mental illness, and asks if contemporary society has adequately understood the lessons of the past about the devaluation and dehumanization of mentally ill people. Suggests that, alongside asylum closures, a drastic reshaping of traditional attitudes towards mentally ill people is required.
After the asylums: community care for people with mental illness
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Publisher:
- Faber and Faber
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 256p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Traces the history of the care of people with a mental illness, and provides a critical appraisal of the decline of the asylum and the policy of community care. Looks at the provision of a comprehensive service, and makes suggestions for turning the principles of community care into practice.
The closure of mental hospitals
- Authors:
- HALL Peter, BROCKINGTON Ian F. eds
- Publishers:
- Gaskell, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 159p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on the Worcester experience of the closure of two large mental hospitals and their replacement by a comprehensive community based service. Describes the managerial techniques involved and sets the Worcester experience in a national context. Includes an international perspective, with contributions from the US, Australia and the World Health Organization.
Imprisoned by prejudice
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 30.11.89, 1989, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Many patients in Rampton Hospital are ready to move out into the community, but lack of accommodation prevents them from doing so.
Taking care into the community
- Authors:
- HUGMAN R., RIMMER P.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 2.11.87, 1987, pp.13-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Describes the work of a small residential unit which prepares patients leaving large psychiatric hospitals for life in the community.
Provision of after care services for discharged psychiatric patients: a research report
- Author:
- HAWES Charles
- Publisher:
- Greenwich. Directorate of Social Services. Fieldwork Division
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Alternatives to asylum : conference notes of a multi-disciplinary and inter-agency day concerned with community care for ex-psychiatric hospital patients, February 1986
- Author:
- EAST SUSSEX Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- East Sussex. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- Uckfield
The chronic mental patient in a community context
- Editor:
- CHACKO Ranjit C.
- Publisher:
- American Psychiatric Press
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Pagination:
- 84p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Accommodation without resident staff of ex-psychiatric patients : changing trends and needs
- Author:
- PRITLOVE Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 13(1), 1983, pp.75-92.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Reports on a survey in one metropolitan local authority area establishing the extent to which such accommodation is provided for an elderly, institutionalised and chronically handicapped group, and whether hospital closure is changing this.