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The mentally disordered offender
- Editors:
- HERBST Katia, GUNN John
- Publishers:
- Butterworth-Heinemann, Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 266p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Provides an interdisciplinary forum on the mentally disordered offender. Aimed at psychiatrists, prison doctors, lawyers, magistrates, prison officers and social workers. Contains sections on the mentally disordered offender in the courts, in prison, in hospital and in the community.
Social work and mental disorder: a practical guide for social workers
- Author:
- BEECH David
- Publisher:
- Pepar
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 112p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Includes descriptions of mental disorder, models of mental illness, guidance for the social worker in working with disordered clients, social work with schizophrenic clients, psychopathy, mental handicap or mental impairment, the legal context, the role of the courts and local authorities, admissions to hospital, consent to treatment, the roles and functions of the approved social worker, the rights of the patient and the nearest relative, mental health review tribunals, the Mental Health Act Commission, and medication.