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Flexible care can be just a jive
- Author:
- TAYLOR Carolyn
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 8(1), September 2001, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Reports on one of the winners of the health and social care awards. Looks at the use of "flexible carers" in Oxfordshire, who provided regular home based support to older people suffering from functional mental illness or dementia.
Mental health nursing: the art of compassionate care
- Author:
- WATKINS Peter
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 237p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Analyses mental health nursing, using as a central theme the significance of the relationship between mental health professionals and service users. Discusses the meaning of distress and ways to recovery; the working alliance between professional and user; the therapeutic use of the self by professionals; and personal management and development for professionals.
Looking to the future: key issues for contemporary mental health services
- Editor:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing,|Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 229p.bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Focusing on central issues and debates, key research findings and current challenges, the book is illustrated with mental health service users' poems and photographs, and presents a broad overview of the mental heath care system which is looking to the future. The book is intended as a reader for the Certificate in Community Mental Health Care. Contents include: perspectives on mental health and illness; issues around empowerment; carpers' testimonies; legal contexts across the UK; individual care planning; risk and safety; anti-racist practice in mental health assessment; community mental health services; working with people with long term needs; strategies for living with mental distress; understanding relationships; the soul of psychiatry.
'He's' not my carer- he's my husband': personal and policy constructions of care in mental health
- Author:
- HENDERSON Jeanette
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 15(2), November 2001, pp.149-159.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The construction of 'care' in the professional and UK legislative and policy arenas has been the focus of much interest in recent years. A growing awareness of the needs of 'carers' in their own rights and a recognition of the conflicting needs of 'carers and users of services informs practice in health and social care where discourses of care focus on 'care' as duty, burden and responsibility. This article seeks to locate individual experiences of 'care' in mental health alongside the construction of 'care' in mental health policy and legislation with in the UK. It draws both on preliminary research with couples, and an analysis of the development of 'care' in policy and law. This dual analysis indicates that, while practitioners in health and social care recognise the needs of people who consider themselves to be 'carers', not all people subscribe to the identity of 'carer' or 'cared for' in their relationship.