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Mind over matter: improving media reporting of mental health
- Author:
- SHIFT
- Publisher:
- Shift
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report makes a series of recommendations on how to improve media reporting. It calls on government, the media and the mental health sector to work together to improve coverage, particularly of severe mental health problems. The publication is intended to kick-start a debate in the media about the reporting of mental health.
Disappointment, optimism, and the reality of community care for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- GOODWIN Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Applied Community Studies, 2(1), 1994, pp.3-22.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Argues that community care policy for people with mental health problems has failed to live up to expectations. The government continues to hold as far as possible to the original assumptions of the policy which militate against any substantial improvements being made.
Equal before the law?
- Author:
- FOOLCHAND Madhun Kumar
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.01.20, 2004, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that a revised version of the draft mental health bill needs to address concerns over the treatment of ethnic minorities.
Detained: SSI inspection of compulsory mental health admissions
- Author:
- SOCIAL SERVICE INSPECTORATE
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 66p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social Services Inspectorate report for the Department of Health. Study based on inspection of 10 local authorities.
Mind over matter
- Author:
- DOBSON Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 9, December 2001, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
In December 2000 the Government published a mental health White Paper to radically reform existing legislation, including doing away with the prominent role that social workers held in sectioning decisions. Reports how, one year on, professionals in the sector are still adamant that social work input is an important ingredient in care for most mental health users.
Safety catch
- Author:
- RADCLIFFE Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 3.2.99, 1999, p.31.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that it is practitioners who are left to put the meaning and humanity into mental health policy.
Cruel to be kind
- Author:
- MAHONY Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 5.8.98, 1998, p.19.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on how the government's plans for mental health legislation have been welcomed by health professionals, even though compulsion powers will be increased.
Cast out in the community
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.4.98, 1998, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
For a government trying to balance caring for severely mentally ill people in the community with keeping the public safe there are no quick fixes. Examines the difficulties for mentally ill people living in the community.
Grasping the nettle on mental health
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.9.97, 1997, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks whether the government can live up to its declared intention to ensure services are adequate to support mentally ill people living in the community.
A manifesto for mental health: rebuilding mental health services for the 21st century
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Document setting out the issues which the new Government will have to address to solve the current crisis in mental health services and to build on good practice and improve the nation's mental health.