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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.
Appropriate adults and appropriate adult schemes: service user, provider and police perspectives
- Editor:
- LITTLECHILD Brian
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 129p.bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Examines the provision and practice of appropriate adults who attend vulnerable groups, including juveniles, those with learning disabilities or mental health problems held in police custody. looks at the weakness of provision and practice and asks how might appropriate adult services be provided for vulnerable people in custody. The role, work and provision of appropriate adults is examined from perspectives of detainees, police and those working within and managing appropriate adult schemes.
Standards of practice for working with children and young people in a therapeutic community setting
- Authors:
- GATISS Sheila J., POOLEY Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 22(3), Autumn 2001, pp.191-196.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Presents the development of a set of measurable standards for therapeutic child care institutions. Begins by outlining the British legislative and contextual framework that the standards needed to work within, together with a profile of children who are likely to be most in need of residential provision. From this information goes on to develop a model of standards incorporing the clinical needs of the children, their families and carers in an environment that encourages lasting growth and change together with social and emotional intelligence.
'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.
When parents have a mental illness
- Author:
- ANYAEGBUNAM Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 13.12.01, 2001, pp.39-40.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains why child and adult services must collaborate if the care of children whose parents have mental health problems is to be improved.
The point of law: Mental Health Act explained
- Authors:
- DOLAN Bridget, POWELL Debra
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 309p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd.
This book is aimed at doctors, social workers, nurses, hospital managers, lawyers and others who may use the Mental Health Act as part of their profession. The Act and this book outline the psychiatric disorders for which detention is permitted and sets out the nature and extent of the powers of hospital authorities to detain a person for assessment and treatment. It also looks at guardianship, discharge and aftercare and outlines the arrangements that have to be made to manage an individual's property and financial affairs. The book includes the full text of the Act, divided into sub-sections, with each sub-section being explained in plain English. Each sub-section is also annotated with discussions on the application of the Act in practice as well as amendments and analyses of recent legal decisions and the introduction of other legislation which affects the Act.
State funded continuing care for the elderly mentally ill: a legal and ethical solution?
- Authors:
- SIMMONS P., ORRELL M.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 16(10), October 2001, pp.931-934.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Editorial focusing on recent developments and current debate on the provision of state funded long term nursing care for older people.
Mental illness: a handbook for carers
- Editor:
- RAMSEY Rosalind
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 304p.,BIBLIOG.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aims to provide practical information for those caring for someone with mental health problems. Describes each of the main types of mental illness and their treatment, with case studies of carers' experiences. Goes on to discuss issues such as the range of mental health and social care services available; housing, benefits and employment; legal issues; stigma; cultural issues; violence and suicide; and psychological treatments.
Managing aggression and violence in care settings: a review of the legal and ethical content of staff training courses
- Author:
- BEECH Bernard
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 3(2), May 2001, pp.8-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Staff must have an appreciation of legal and ethical issues associated with the people they care for, particularly when physical restraint to manage aggression or violence is being considered. This article examines legal and ethical issues related to the management of aggression and violence, and considers the inclusion of this material in training courses.
Principles not prejudices
- Author:
- ROWDEN Ray
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.2.01, 2001, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author argues that if the White Paper to reform the mental health system is to succeed, the government must listen to the views of patients and not the opinions of the media.