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A new vision for mental health: discussion paper
- Author:
- FUTURE VISION COALITION
- Publisher:
- Future Vision Coalition
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that the underlying aims of future mental health policy must be to: overcome persistent barriers to social inclusion that continue to affect those with experience of mental health problems; improve the whole-life outcomes of those with experience of mental health problems improve whole-population mental health. This will not be easy to achieve, since attitudes have been ingrained over many decades of use, and because medical models of mental health problems have long dominated the debate about the appropriate focus for policy.
A framework for the development of housing services for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- McCOLLAM Allyson
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 3(3), September 1998, pp.6-13.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Trends in housing policy and housing development over the last ten years have created a growing tension between the community care housing agenda and wider housing policies. In mental health, as the pattern of service provision across the UK has moved away from the more traditional institutional models of care, there continues to be an urgent need to develop stable and sustainable housing provision linked to effective support based on individual needs. Describes a framework for the development of housing services for people with mental health problems in Scotland.
The challenge of individual rights
- Author:
- WOOD John
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 166, April 1995, pp.417-420.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The tasks undertaken by psychiatry and the other professions treating and caring for people with mental health problems are not easy. The work attracts publicity and is closely monitored by groups representing patients. Society also has measures of checking practice in the form of the system of Mental Health Review Tribunals. Discusses mental health law and practice, and psychiatric practice in relation to individual rights.
Mental health and housing: a crisis on the streets
- Author:
- GLOVER Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 21(4), 1999, pp.327-337.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article analyses whether the failures in community care can be derived from failures in the provision of housing owing to the underestimation of its role in the community care process. Asks whether community care overlooked the basic housing needs of discharged patients rendering impossible any effective benefits which could have been achieved from the community care policy and whether the law relating to housing rights failed to ensure an adequate framework for care in the community, thereby exacerbating the problems faced by released psychiatric patients.
Failure to thrive
- Author:
- CRAIL Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 30.4.98, 1998, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Describes the government's long-awaited new mental health policy.
Supported housing for the mentally ill elderly: implementation and consumer choice
- Author:
- SOHNG Sung Sil Lee
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 32(2), April 1996, pp.135-148.
- Publisher:
- Springer
In the United States the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 was aimed at resolving the problem of thousands of mentally ill nursing home residents who either did not require this level of care or whose mental health needs were not being met in a nursing home. Given the context of the OBRA mandates and the growing older population the development of innovative alternatives to nursing homes is critical. This article examines the experience of one urban county in Washington state providing supported housing for the OBRA - affected mentally ill elderly.
Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act. ch.33
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A multidisciplinary handbook of child and adolescent mental health for front-line professionals
- Authors:
- DOGRA Nisha, PARKIN Andrew, GALE Fiona, FRAKE Clay
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 295p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
An introduction to mental health problems among children and young people. Part one is on defining and meeting the mental health needs of children and young people. Part two looks at child and family development. Part three examines factors that influence the mental heat of young people. Part four focuses on specific mental health problems such as: emotional problems; behaviourial problems; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; learning difficulties and developmental disorders; and major mental health disorders. Part five looks at treatment and management strategies. Part 6 is on medico legal aspects of child mental health. Part seven contains exercises and case study solutions.
'He's' not my carer- he's my husband': personal and policy constructions of care in mental health
- Author:
- HENDERSON Jeanette
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 15(2), November 2001, pp.149-159.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The construction of 'care' in the professional and UK legislative and policy arenas has been the focus of much interest in recent years. A growing awareness of the needs of 'carers' in their own rights and a recognition of the conflicting needs of 'carers and users of services informs practice in health and social care where discourses of care focus on 'care' as duty, burden and responsibility. This article seeks to locate individual experiences of 'care' in mental health alongside the construction of 'care' in mental health policy and legislation with in the UK. It draws both on preliminary research with couples, and an analysis of the development of 'care' in policy and law. This dual analysis indicates that, while practitioners in health and social care recognise the needs of people who consider themselves to be 'carers', not all people subscribe to the identity of 'carer' or 'cared for' in their relationship.
Homeless children: problems and needs
- Editors:
- VOSTANIS Panos, CUMELLA Stuart
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 202p.,bibliog
- Place of publication:
- London
Defines the specific problems and needs of homeless children, and draws up practical guidelines for staff and agencies on recognising and dealing with those problems. Goes on to look at policy and service development for homeless families in education, health and social care; and concludes that conventional methods of provision have to be adapted to meet the specific needs of this vulnerable group. Includes chapters on: child mental health problems; parenting issues; homeless young people; effects of changes in housing legislation; the impact of health and social services; education and the homeless child; family homelessness in the USA; and access to voluntary sector agencies.