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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.
Suicide prevention : hazards on the fast lane to community care
- Author:
- MORGAN H.G.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 160, February 1992, pp.149-153.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Sounds a warning note that discharge into the community of long-stay psychiatric patients could lead to an increase in the number of suicides amongst ex-patients.
The Worcester Development Project
- Authors:
- TURNER Richard, ROBERTS Glenn
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 160, January 1992, pp.103-107.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Comments on studies of the closure of two mental illness hospitals and their replacement by a community-based service.