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No longer a one-man job? On day activities in mental health care in Sweden
- Authors:
- HANSSON J-H., TENGVALD K.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 2(4), October 1993, pp.186-196.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Swedish psychiatry is organisationally in line with the international development of closing down the old large mental hospitals. As in other countries, problems of provision of care for severely mentally ill people can be observed. An organisationally new field focusing on the activities of daily living is developing, however. This was surveyed nationally in Spring 1991 and parts of these results are presented and discussed. The field is characterized by profound uncertainty manifested in the fact that psychiatry is no longer doing the work alone. Local social services take on a growing responsibility trying to make claims on how to define the work even if psychiatry is dominant, both in organisational and discursive power. Promising characteristics in joint venture units set up between psychiatry and local social services opens up for discussions on who, in what ways and with what means these new forms of care are going to be pursued.
To be or to be trained to be - on emerging and diverging ideological traditions in organising day care activities for people with severe mental disorders in Sweden
- Author:
- HANSSON J-H.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 2(2), April 1993, pp.80-87.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Organised activities for people with severe mental disorders have until recently been the societal task of one human service organisation, the medical speciality of psychiatry. With former psychiatric inpatients moving out into the local community and with heavier dependence on outpatient poly-clinic care, the situation is slowly changing. Day care activities for people with severe mental disorder are organised with an increasing involvement of the social services. The aim of this article is, using data from a national survey carried out in 1991 in Sweden, to describe and categorize how day care units interpret their task. Results show that claims-making activities still adhere largely to a therapeutic paradigm in spite of the outspoken social character of the work of organising everyday life activities.
Research strategies for consumer empowerment of people with severe mental illness
- Authors:
- RAPP Charles A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 38(6), November 1993, pp.727-735.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
US research concerning the care and treatment of people with severe mental illness has not been consonant with the well-established emphasis on consumer empowerment in social work and the psychiatric rehabilitation field. Provides a set of research strategies that would help bridge the gap, arguing that research should amplify the voice of the consumer by attending to the context of research, the vantage point, the process of formulating research questions, the selection of interventions to be tested, the selection of outcomes and measures, and the dissemination of research results.
Discharge procedures for mentally ill people. The perspective of former psychiatric patients on their primary social network, quality of life and future life expectations
- Authors:
- DUFKER M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 2(1), January 1993, pp.33-42.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Draws on literature about social networks and social support in order to integrate a number of key concepts and findings that must be considered in research about the social conditions of mentally ill people. Interviews with 53 former psychiatric patients were carried out to get their perspective on their social network, quality of life and future life expectations. The duration of and stigma attached to mental illness, being without work and gender seemed to have the most influence on the primary network. The same issues, except for gender, together with place of residence, financial difficulties and inability to exert influence over one's own situation influenced the respondents' quality of life and their expectations of the future. These findings are analysed and discussed from a social psychological perspective.
Hijack
- Author:
- GILMORE Enid
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 7.1.93, 1993, p.23.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Asks how did social work theory become the property of psychiatrists and suggests that it is time for a rethink in mental health policy.
The social organization of mental illness
- Author:
- PRIOR Lindsay
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 239p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Analyses the changing definitions of mental illness and the way in which they have been reflected in the organisation of health and social services. Shows how this both reflects and constitutes the nature of mental illness. Demonstrates how sociological insights into the world of psychiatric medicine can be gained from an examination of the multiple ways in which disorders have been represented in, and through, the work of psychiatric professionals. Focuses on the transition from hospital to community centred services.
Depression and practice learning in mental health social work
- Author:
- FIRTH Malcolm T.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 7(2), Autumn 1993, pp.141-151.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Training in mental health social work has to accommodate three main areas of learning: connecting past and present, 'being with' and 'done to', and psychiatric phenomenology. This learning emerges most actively through contact with those clients whose disorders and predicaments hold echoes for the student social workers; most typically, these echoes are depressive. Practice teaching introduces another element of professional disillusionment, notably a shift from 'ideal' to 'real' practice. Current trends in community care are observed to add a further dimension of professional blight.
Managing care at home
- Author:
- LEAR Geraldine
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 3.2.93, 1993, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the Research and Development in Psychiatry pilot projects, which are test sites for single-agency and multi-agency care management with people with severe enduring mental health problems, and analyses the assessment schedules drawn up by RDP in conjunction with the projects, which cover health and social care under ten headings - physical health, mental health, medication, finance, housing, home supports, daily living skills, legal, occupation/daytime activity and social networks.
GP and informal group referrals to a community health centre: an examination of the pathway to psychiatric care
- Author:
- SHEPPARD Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 4(3), 1993, pp.232-254.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Compares GP and informal group referrals to a community health centre. There are major differences between the two groups. GP referrals were considered to be more severely mentally ill and informal group referrals to be more socially disadvantaged and characterised more by psychosocial problems. GP referrals emphasised assessment and informal referrals emphasised counselling and advice. GP referrals were often allocated to doctors and were more likely to be referred for out or in patient help. Informal group referrals were more likely to be allocated to social workers or community psychiatric nurses.