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Antipsychotic drugs and social work: conflicts with psychiatry
- Author:
- KARPIK Stefan
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 46p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Collects and evaluates the information on the implications of prescribing antipsychotic drugs described as effective with minor side-effects.
Common mental disorders: a bio-social model
- Authors:
- GOLDBERG David, HUXLEY Peter
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 210p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Combines insights from social psychiatry with recent findings in biological psychiatry and provides a model for common mental disorders. The physical processes which underlie states of depression and anxiety are described, together with the environmental factors that effect these processes. Concludes by discussing the implications of recent findings both for the future pattern of services and for training needs of mental health professionals.
Mental health, race and culture
- Author:
- FERNANDO Suman
- Publisher:
- MacMillan/MIND
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 253p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes and analyses mental health theory, practice, tradition and innovation around the world in the context of a diversity of world-views and of problems arising from racism. Argues that psychiatric imperialism at a global level and racist ways of working at an individual level must be combated in order for us to move forward into truly culturally based concepts of mental health.
Inter-professional collaboration and education: an annotated bibliography
- Authors:
- TOASE Mary, comp
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Bibliography of documents on inter-professional collaboration and education in primary health and community care. Professionals looked at are: people working in education; GP's; health visitors; nurses; occupational therapists; pharmacists; physiotherapists; psychiatrists; social workers; and speech therapists. Client groups include: addicts; children; older people; people with learning disabilities; and people with mental health problems.