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Black people and sectioning: the black experience of detention under the civil sections of the Mental Health Act
- Author:
- BROWNE Deryck
- Publisher:
- Little Rock
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 56p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study examining reasons behind the high rate of detentions among black and minority ethnic people under the Mental Health Act 1983. Places the issues in context and looks at the background to detention, admission procedures, and treatment and care in hospital. Draws conclusions and makes recommendations.
From the margin to the centre: an examination of section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Authors:
- SHAH Yashi, MARKWICK Charlie
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work. Race Equality Unit
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 63p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the way psychiatry is used as a form of social control and how this operates for the black community, sets out some of the legal ambiguities in Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, and examines the role of the police, social workers and psychiatrists when dealing with black people with mental health problems
How safe are places of safety?
- Author:
- SYMINGTON Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2008, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, the police may take a person believed to be suffering from a mental disorders and to be in immediate need of care or control to a 'place of safety'. New national guidelines state that better standards are needed in Mental Health Act places of safety. This article discusses the Section 136 review - which contained user and carer perspectives - and highlights the key recommendations.
Critical perspectives on mental health
- Authors:
- COPPOCK Vicki, HOPTON John
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 216p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what implications they critiques of these perspectives have for practice. Looks critically at the social, political and intellectual developments which have shaped psychiatric practice and the delivery of mental health services. By evaluating the impact on psychiatric thought of the social and political movements of the 1960's and 1970's, such as anti racism , anti psychiatry and radical feminism, the authors argue that these movements led to challenges to the legitimacy of psychiatry.
Assessing the mental health needs of older people
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This web-based resource provides an overview of information and current practice to all those involved in assessing the social care needs of older people with mental health needs. It is aimed primarily at practitioners undertaking assessments, in particular, those front-line staff who may be the first professional in contact with an older person or their family and friends. The Guide provides access to the information and skills that inform sound judgements in the support of service users and carers. Its coverage includes: messages from research; current policy and guidance; service users and carers; the social workers role in assessment; assessing need; black and minority ethnic older people; implications of the Mental Health Act 1983; and interagency working. Also incorporated in the contents are practice and service examples, useful further reading and links to additional information on the web and to full text of official guidance and standards. (Previously published as SCIE Practice Guide no. 2).
The early experience of consultant psychiatrists in application of the Mental Capacity Act: issues for black and minority individuals
- Authors:
- SHAH Ajit, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, 2(2), July 2009, pp.4-10.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) was fully implemented in October 2007 in England and Wales. This article reports on two similar, but separate, pilot questionnaire studies that examined the experience of consultants in old age psychiatry and consultants in other psychiatric specialities in the early implementation of the MCA pertaining to issues relevant to black and minority ethnic (BME) groups. Fifty-two (27%) of the 196 consultants in old age psychiatry and 113 (12%) of the 955 consultants in other psychiatric specialities returned useable questionnaires. Eighty per cent or more of the consultants in old age psychiatry and consultants in other psychiatric specialities gave consideration to religion and culture and ethnicity in the assessment of decision-making capacity (DMC). Almost 50% of the consultants in old age psychiatry reported that half or more of the patients lacking fluency in English or where English was not their first language received an assessment of DMC with the aid of an interpreter and 40% of the consultants in other psychiatric specialities reported that no such patients received an assessment of DMC with the aid of an interpreter. The low rate of using interpreters is of concern. The nature of the consideration and implementation of factors relevant to culture, ethnicity and religion in the application of the MCA and the precise reasons for the low rate of using interpreters in patients lacking fluency in English or English not being their first language require clarification in further studies.
Distant voices, still lives: reflections on the impact of media reporting of the cases of Christopher Clunis and Ben Silcock
- Author:
- CUMMINS Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, 3(4), December 2010, pp.18-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article explores the way that the media reporting of two high profile cases involving mental health policy has helped to support and sustain the stereotypical view that people with mental health problems are violent. It also explores the issue of race and psychiatry via the reporting of the Inquiry into the Care and Treatment of Christopher Clunis. In addition, with the use of government papers obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the author considers how the response to and the attempts to influence the media debate at that time helped to shape mental health policy culminating in the reform of the Mental health Act 2007 and the introduction of community treatment orders (CTOs). In the case of Ben Silcock, first reported in 1993, emphasis was on the way that mental health services had failed him and his family. In Contrast, in the case of Christopher Clunis, a 19 year old black male, which was first reported in December 1992, focus was on the failure of mental health services to protect the wider community. It is argued that the reporting of this case reflected racial and class divisions with the voice of a black working class family being effectively marginalised. The author concludes that media reporting of high profile cases has a profound influence on the development of mental health policy and that the failings in community care had a profound influence in the introduction of more coercive mental health legislation. Mental health professionals need to challenge racial stereotyping more effectively.
Detained: SSI of compulsory mental health admissions; February 2001
- Author:
- WATSON Alan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of this inspection was to inspect and report on the service received by, and outcomes for, users who are compulsorily detained under the Mental Health Act. It took place at a time when the Mental Health Act was under review, and the Government had published its new strategy for mental health. The strategy was followed by a National Service Framework for Mental Health, which sets standards for all agencies to achieve greater consistency across the country. During the inspection information was gathered from assessments of almost one thousand people under the Mental Health Act. It took place at a time when mental health services were being re-assessed in the light of the new national standards for mental health and this report is timely in helping local councils to evaluate services.
A model for community-based mental health services for older adults: innovative social work practice
- Authors:
- BLACK Janet, MINDELL Marcia
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 26(3/4), 1996, pp.113-127.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Presents a model developed in the United States for the delivery of comprehensive mental health services to older adults in their own homes, based on sound clinical practice, and incorporating a cross-cultural perspective coupled with a strong social and community support base.
Mental health: a client support resource pack
- Authors:
- SUTTON Carole, HERBERT Martin
- Publisher:
- NFER Nelson
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 1v.,looseleaf,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Windsor
Resource pack devised to help both those who are experiencing or recovering from mental distress and all those who care for them, including professionals, para professionals and non professionals. Contains sections on: mental illness in context; working with people with a mental illness and their carers; working with people experiencing particular difficulties (including anxiety, phobias, depressive disorders, attempted suicide, schizophrenia, dementia, and problems related to substance abuse); working with special groups (including black people, older people and people with learning disabilities); and support for workers. Also contains appendices on: Mental Health Act 1983; psychotropic drugs; relaxation techniques; and key features of schizophrenia. Includes checklists for helping people with specific difficulties.