Search results for ‘Subject term:"mental health problems"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 10 of 96
Crisis houses should not be institutions
- Author:
- JENKINSON Pam
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 71, October 1994, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Reveals the radical thinking behind the crisis house run by MIND in Wokingham.
Behind closed doors
- Author:
- MACHIN Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, September 1994, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Gives a personal and candid account of the problems of working in a Ashworth special hospital.
Women on my mind
- Author:
- KNIBBS Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.5.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Care in the community may offer an opportunity to change the neglect and over-treatment that women currently receive under mental health services. Reports on the way women are treated.
Focal point
- Author:
- THIRU Smythy
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.3.94, 1994, pp.62-64.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains how focused specialist nursing can improve the quality of life of people with learning disabilities who have mental health problems.
The mental health problems of elderly people living on London's streets
- Author:
- CRANE Maureen
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 9(2), February 1994, pp.87-95.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on research in London into the mental health problems of elderly people living on the streets of the capital.
Black mental health: a dialogue for change
- Author:
- WILSON Melba
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Mental Health Task Force
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 28p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paper arising out of consultation with black groups and organisations concerned with mental health issues.
The pattern of delays in mental health review tribunals: summary
- Authors:
- BLUMENTHAL Stephen, WESSELY Simon
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 42p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary report of a study which aimed to establish the extent to which each individual or agency contributes to the pattern of delay in holding mental health review tribunals, the reasons why they do so, and whether delay relates to positive outcome from the patient's point of view, i.e. discharge.
Almost a revolution: mental health law and the limits of change
- Author:
- APPELBAUM Paul S
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 243p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Examines 4 important reforms in mental health law in the United States: the change in civil commitment laws from statutes allowing confinement on the basis of patients' need for treatment to laws restricting involuntary hospitalisation to persons found dangers to themselves or others; the imposition of liability on mental health professionals for violent acts committed by their patients, when the courts deem that the violence was foreseeable; the recognition of the right of psychiatric patients, even those involuntarily hospitalised, to refuse treatment; and the extensive changes in the insanity defence, including a narrowing of the standard for legal insanity.
Community mental health work - preventing the crisis
- Author:
- AUSTIN Tracy
- Journal article citation:
- Talking Point, 158, December 1994, pp.1-4.
- Publisher:
- Association of Community Workers
Looks at some of the issues surrounding community mental health work and its scope for effecting change within the traditional experience of mental health services.
Collaboration with families: an alternative to mental health legislation
- Author:
- EL-ISLAM M. Fakhr
- Journal article citation:
- Care in Place the International Journal of Networks and Community, 1(3), December 1994, pp.256-260.
In Western 'communities' a family has responsibility for the management of all the members who would manage their own affairs in nontraditional industrialized 'communities'. These responsibilities include: management of people with disorders; discovery, presentation for professional attention; aftercare and maintenance in non-hospital settings. Informal collaboration between professionals and families makes mental health legislation redundant in traditional 'communities'. An example is provided of collaboration which covers more areas than mental legislation, which is mainly interested in certification and compulsory admissions.