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A model without a model
- Author:
- SONE Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.5.92, 1992, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Following the Italian Reform Act 1978, which ordered the closure of mental hospitals and psychiatric intervention on community based services, services are now provided by local mental health centres in rural and urban areas.
The development of potential models of advance directives in mental health care
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Jacqueline M, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 12(6), December 2003, pp.575-584.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The review of mental health law in the UK has involved consideration of mechanisms for advance directives in mental health care. The aim was to develop potential models of advance directives based on the views of stakeholders in mental health services in Scotland. Focus groups and individual interviews were conducted with service users, professionals and carers who had an interest in advance directives. Leaflets and policy documents from campaign groups and voluntary organisations were collected and along with data generated in interview and group discussion were analysed for themes. Six potential models were developed that highlighted the overarching themes of co-operation versus autonomy and the legal status of any directive. There is a wide variety of opinion about what advance directives could or should bring to mental health care, they are not all achievable through the use of any one model.
Using a model to guide data gathering, interpretation, and communication in capital mitigation evaluations
- Authors:
- MARCZYK Geoffrey, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 3(3), 2003, pp.89-103.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
The use of a model can have a direct impact on several areas of forensic mental health assessment, and is important in gathering and interpreting data, reasoning about the results and conclusions, and communicating the results of such an assessment. The following report and accompanying discussion illustrates the application of a forensic model in the context of a defense-initiated capital mitigation evaluation under Pennsylvania State law. The first step in employing a model was to identify the relevant legal standard, which required the forensic clinician to assess character traits, contextual circumstances, extreme mental or emotional disturbance, and mental and cognitive deficits that might have had a direct impact on the defendant's ability to conduct or conform his conduct to the requirements of the law at the time of the alleged offense. In the second part of the model, these clinical characteristics were related to the tasks and functional abilities that are part of the relevant legal question. Finally, using the third step of the model, the forensic clinician assesses the strength of the causal connection between the existence of mental and cognitive deficits and the functional abilities related to the relevant legal question. In addition to improving the overall quality and accuracy of the evaluation, the use of this type of model is consistent with the guidelines and substantive criteria for capital mitigation articulated by the United States Supreme Court. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Right on our side
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.6-8.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on how legislation is just one of the many tools the Disability Rights Commission will be using to tackle discrimination.
An autopoietic approach to 'Parental Alienation Syndrome'
- Author:
- KING Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 13(3), December 2002, pp.609-635.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
This article uses the recent controversies over 'Parental Alienation Syndrome' as a springboard for a discussion of the relationship between mental health knowledge and expertise, and the legal system. Autopoietic theory is a sociological account of social communication systems and the relations between these systems. Law as a social communication system and child mental health as a sub-system of science are observed as distinct and selfreferential, each relating to its environment and to one another in very different ways, predetermined by their coding and programmes. Recent developments in the rules of admissibility for expert evidence raise questions over the precise status in law of knowledge from clinical child psychiatric and child psychological experts. Through the autopoietic observation of law and child mental health this article explains why the legal system needs to show that it is capable of distinguishing between 'reliable' and 'unreliable' mental health knowledge and court experts. As a result of these observations, some fundamental questions arise about the role of experts in advising courts and in offering therapeutic intervention for children and families. Finally, the article examines the existence within child mental health of law as an instrument for therapy.
The welfare of children with mentally ill parents: learning from inter-country comparisons
- Authors:
- HETHERINGTON Rachael, BAISTOW Karen, KATZ Ilan, MESIE Jeffrey, TROWELL Judith
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 262p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Children with mentally ill parents have complex needs, and a wide range of mental health and social services may be involved. This can lead to problems of liaison and co-operation between different agencies and different disciplines. The study looks at different approaches to supporting families in ten European countries and one state in Australia. Common problems and effective responses are identified and used to build a European model of good practice, which takes into account the nature of the difficulties facing families and the strengths and weaknesses of national systems. The model is used as a basis for analysing the particular problems of the English system.
Standards of practice for working with children and young people in a therapeutic community setting
- Authors:
- GATISS Sheila J., POOLEY Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 22(3), Autumn 2001, pp.191-196.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Presents the development of a set of measurable standards for therapeutic child care institutions. Begins by outlining the British legislative and contextual framework that the standards needed to work within, together with a profile of children who are likely to be most in need of residential provision. From this information goes on to develop a model of standards incorporing the clinical needs of the children, their families and carers in an environment that encourages lasting growth and change together with social and emotional intelligence.