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Friend's meeting house
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.8.99, 1999, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how people with mental illness often feel on the outside of society, and this can exacerbate their illness. Describes 'Friend', a resource centre in Weston-super-Mare.
Costing different models of mental health service provision
- Authors:
- McCRONE Paul, CHISHOLM Daniel, BOULD Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Research Review, 6, May 1999, pp.14-17.
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
This article describes one recent attempt to model the costs of a range of mental health care strategies in an outer-London health authority. The perceived value of the modelling approach to service costing was to supply insights into and estimates of broad directions of change, which could subsequently inform a wider discussion between local clinicians, planners and managers about future mental health service in the locality.
Which way to utopia?
- Author:
- LINNETT Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 98, July 1999, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The author discusses his thoughts on user involvement in relation to mental health services. Argues that genuine user involvement will lead to fundamental change and is by its nature revolutionary.
Making music
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 2(10), June 1999, pp.348-349.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on the work of Sound Minds, a music project for mental health service users.
Race against time
- Author:
- MILLAR Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 18.3.99, 1999, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on how the death of David Bennett at a psychiatric clinic has prompted MPs to suggest that the mental health sector should be included in investigations into racism in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.
Mental health of ethnic minorities: an annotated bibliography
- Author:
- BHUGRA Dinesh
- Publisher:
- Gaskell
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 120p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Bibliography on mental health and black and minority ethnic people covering research on the subject over the last two decades. Aimed at all those involved in providing cross cultural mental health services.
Children's mental health services: are they still a postcode lottery?
- Author:
- FLOOD Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 43, November 1999, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Offers a summary of 'With Children in Mind', the Audit Commission's report of its two-year audit of specialist NHS child and adolescent mental health services in England and Wales.
Telling it like it was: audio-taping stories told by mental health service users and carers
- Author:
- SMITH Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 18(4), November 1999, pp.479-486.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
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.
Methodological problems associated with measuring consumer satisfaction in the mental health field
- Author:
- O'NEAL Paul D.
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 52(3), September 1999, pp.9-15.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reviews the literature associated with measuring consumer satisfaction, particularly in relation to the mental health field, and identifies some common problems associated with this activity. It concludes by offering some broad parameters which may be viewed as 'signposts' for researchers wishing to undertake consumer satisfaction studies.