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Good in parts
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2007, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Mental Health Act 2007 passed into law on the 19th of July. This article looks at some of the fears of the Mental Health Alliance. The article highlights disappointments with the new community treatment order (CTO) and the Bournewood safeguards, which some argue does not provide sufficient independent safeguard.
Reform of the Mental Health Act: health or safety?
- Authors:
- SZMUKLER George, HOLLOWAY Frank
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, September 2000, pp.196-200.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Community care has stimulated rethinking of the role of mental health legislation. By so doing it has exposed hidden assumptions in past legislation that discriminate against those with mental illnesses.
Hospital manager's review
- Authors:
- CURRAN Christopher, GRIMSHAW Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 100, November 1999, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Compulsory detention under the 1983 Mental Health Act raises important issues relating to the civil liberty of the individual concerned. Hospital managers are the formal detaining authority under the 1983 Mental Health Act, and the Act permits a patient to request a review of their detention. This article reviews the legal responsibilities of the hospital manager.
The legislative tenets of client's right to treatment in the least restrictive environment and freedom from harm: implications for community providers
- Authors:
- THOMAS Douglas A, CHAPLIN Rosemary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 36(6), December 2000, pp.545-556.
- Publisher:
- Springer
For over four decades, US legislation has supported efforts to move people with severe mental illness from hospital into community based services. However, the legal protections remain inconsistent. This article analyses the relevant case law and attempts to establish similarities between the state hospital's duty to protect its patients and they responsibility of community mental health centres to do so for people they serve. The authors argue that the client's right to freedom from harm must receive increased attention and community based service providers will have to enhance their capacity to deliver more effective risk management services if mental health reform is to become a successful social policy.
The national service framework for mental health
- Author:
- RICHARDS David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(4), December 1999, pp.136-139.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This report gives a summary and assessment of the new National Service Framework for mental health, designed to drive forward and monitor service development and improvement.
May the force be with you
- Author:
- DONNELLY Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 25.11.99, 1999, pp.11-13.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
This article reports on the proposals for the reform of the Mental Health Act 1983. Argues that mental health service users may find themselves facing a harsh new treatment regime.
The national service framework: a scaffold for mental health
- Author:
- TYRER Peter
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 16.10.99, 1999, pp.1017-1018.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
The National Service Framework for Mental Health is part of the programme to establish better quality and reduce unacceptable variations in the NHS. The author of this article asserts that implementation is key to determining whether the framework is a support or a gallows.
Getting pushy
- Author:
- CEVI Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 11.4.96, 1996, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Mental health workers can now legally 'take and convey' patients living in the community. Asks whether this is a brutal, quick fix to allay public anxieties, or a serious measure to protect patients at risk, and the public.
Attitudes towards patients with a diagnosis of 'borderline personality disorder': social rejection and dangerousness
- Author:
- MARKHAM Dominic
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 12(6), December 2003, pp.595-612.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Social stigma has long been associated with mental illness labels, however few studies have evaluated the labelling effects of the psychiatric diagnosis 'borderline personality disorder' (BPD). The aim was to evaluate the effects of the label BPD on staff attitudes and perceptions. Nursing staff completed questionnaires relating to three psychiatric label conditions; BPD, schizophrenia and depression. Measures of dangerousness, social distance, optimism for change and ratings of personal experiences were evaluated in a repeated measures factorial design, with staff qualification as the between-groups variable. Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMNs) expressed less social rejection towards patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and perceived them to be less dangerous than patients with a BPD label. Health Care Assistants (HCAs) made no such distinctions on these measures. Staff were least optimistic about patients with a BPD diagnosis and were more negative about their experience of working with this group compared to the other patient groups. Staff were least optimistic about patients with a BPD label and were more negative about their experience of working with this group. Only RMNs distinguished between those with a BPD and schizophrenia label on measures of dangerousness and social distance. Explanations, clinical practice and the broader implications relating to mental health legislation are explored.
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.