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When equality is not really equal: affirmative action and consumer participation
- Authors:
- HAPPELL Brenda, ROPER Cath
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 5(3), September 2006, pp.6-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Consumer participation in mental health service planning and delivery is now authorised through Australian government policy. While strategies have been implemented to foster opportunities for participation, they have rarely been evaluated for their effectiveness. Furthermore, the inadequacy of these strategies to support policy implementation has been criticised in the literature and identified as a major obstacle to genuine and effective consumer participation in mental health care. This paper argues that there is an urgent need for affirmative action in order to overcome the current and historical discrimination that prevents consumers from active participation.
Sign of progress or confusion? a commentary on the European Commission Green Paper on mental health
- Author:
- PRIEBE Stefan
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 30(8), August 2006, pp.281-282.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
The paper came out in October 2005 following the World Health Organization European Ministerial Conference on Mental Health in the same year. It has the noble intention ‘to launch a debate with the European institutions, governments, health professionals, stakeholders and other sectors... about the relevance of mental health for the EU [European Union], the need for a strategy at EU-level and its possible priorities’. It portrays ‘mental ill health’ as a growing problem in the EU with wide economic consequences, and suggests preventive action, social inclusion of people with mental illness and more data on mental health across the EU. In the paper, the Commission invited all potential stakeholders in mental healthcare in the EU to contribute to a consultation process, which ended in May 2006.
Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neoliberalism
- Author:
- MONCRIEFF Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 188(4), April 2006, pp.301-302.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The pharmaceutical industry has popularised the idea that many problems are caused by imbalances in brain chemicals. This message helps to further the aims of neoliberal economic and social policies by breeding feelings of inadequacy and anxiety. These feelings in turn drive increasing consumption, encourage people to accept more pressured working conditions and inhibit social and political responses.
Shunned: discrimination against people with mental illness
- Author:
- THORNICROFT Graham
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 301p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
People with mental illness commonly describe the stigma and discrimination they face as being worse than their main condition. The book presents clearly for a wide readership information about the nature and severity of discrimination against people with mental illness and what can be done to reduce this.
Action on stigma: promoting mental health, ending discrimination at work
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
With mental health problems experienced by one in six people, the health and well-being of people of working age is of fundamental importance to our future. The Government believes that everyone, including employers, has a role to play in improving the mental health of society. This document outlines a new initiative to support organisations in helping to achieve this goal.
It'll be all rights
- Author:
- BRODY Simeon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.06.06, 2006, p.46.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author asks how far councils have gone in meeting the forthcoming duty to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. The article focuses on the progress made in producing and disability equality scheme, and the extent of involving disabled people in drafting these schemes.
Mental and social health in disasters: relating qualitative social science research and the Sphere standard
- Authors:
- BATNIJI Rajaie, VAN OMMEREN Mark, SARACENO Benedetto
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 62(8), April 2006, pp.1853-1864.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Increasingly, social scientists interested in mental and social health conduct qualitative research to chronicle the experiences of and humanitarian responses to disaster. The authors reviewed the qualitative social science research literature in relation to a significant policy document, the Sphere Handbook, which includes a minimum standard in disaster response addressing “mental and social aspects of health”, involving 12 interventions indicators. The reviewed literature in general supports the relevance of the Sphere social health intervention indicators. However, social scientists’ chronicles of the diversity and complexity of communities and responses to disaster illustrate that these social interventions cannot be assumed helpful in all settings and times. With respect to Sphere mental health intervention indicators, the research largely ignores the existence and well-being of persons with pre-existing, severe mental disorders in disasters, whose well-being is addressed by the relevant Sphere standard. Instead, many social scientists focus on and question the relevance of posttraumatic stress disorder-focused interventions, which are common after some disasters and which are not specifically covered by the Sphere standard. Overall, social scientists appear to call for a social response that more actively engages the political, social, and economic causes of suffering, and that recognizes the social complexities and flux that accompany disaster. By relating social science research to the Sphere standard for mental and social health, this review informs and illustrates the standard and identifies areas of needed research.
Green paper: improving the mental health of the EU population
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In this consultation response document SCIE comments on the proposals set out in the EU Green Paper regarding formulation of a mental health strategy for the European Union. Particularly given the increasing mobility of EU citizens between member states, the mental health and well-being of citizens should be a shared priority at EU-level, as well as at individual member level. The document considers the relevance of the mental health of the population for the EU’s strategic policy objectives, looking at prosperity, solidity and social justice, and quality of life. It goes on to consider whether the development of a comprehensive EU-strategy on mental health would add value to and rationalise the existing and envisaged policies, or whether it would just represent another, separate strand. Finally, it considers whether the proposed initiatives are appropriate to support the coordination between Member States, and to better liaise research and policy on mental health aspects.
Responding to men in crisis: masculinities, distress and the postmodern landscape
- Author:
- TAYLOR Brian
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 283p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Increasing rates of male suicide have been well documented, as have the problems of mental health provision for some minority male groups; however, the position of men in general within the psychiatric system is complex. There are many contradictions and gendered assumptions in mental health policy and practice, for example conflating mental health illness with dangerousness. This book is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness, and discusses key contemporary debates in political uses of risk, dangerousness and so on. The author relates this to a discussion of current policy and practice responses to men within the mental health system.
Inpatient plans need care to be scanned correctly
- Author:
- BARTON Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Addiction Today, 17(101), July 2006, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Addiction Recovery Foundation
The SCAN Network of psychiatrists is making recommendations on "how best to configure inpatient services" in the addictions field. The author asks whether this is possible if they do not fully involve clinicians who are treating similar populations in different settings, for example those in residential rehabilitation or treatment centres. It is argued that much of what is being proposed in the SCAN recommendations for inpatient units is what short-stay residential rehabilitation units have been providing for over 20 years.