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The approved social worker's guide to psychiatry and psychiatric medication
- Authors:
- ADSHEAD Gwen, LACEY Ron
- Publisher:
- Bournemouth University
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 124p.
- Place of publication:
- Poole
This book was written for those on the Mental Health Social Work Award (ASW) courses and those helping to provide placement opportunities for ASW trainees. It will also be of use to practising ASWs, other mental health professionals, service users and carers. Contents include: an overview of psychiatry; psychotic disorders; neuroses, substance abuse and personality disorders; treatment issues in psychiatry; forensic psychiatry and the law; psychiatry of old age; psychiatry and risk assessment; and patients as parents. The main forms of psychiatric medication are then outlined.
Protecting altruism: a call for a code of ethics in British psychiatry
- Authors:
- SARKAR Sameer, ADSHEAD Gwen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 183(8), August 2003, pp.95-97.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The new mental health legislation proposals see the professional role of psychiatry as treating for risk, especially risk to others. Pitted against risk, the interests of the individual patient may come a poor second and ordinary moral claims of patients may be set aside. One can argue that it is ‘good’ for people not to be a risk to others, although this is not an argument that is applied to the general, non-mentally ill population. However, the traditional altruism of the medical role is addressed to patients, not to the public at large. Treatment to make others feel safer risks treating patients merely as a means to an end, in the Kantian sense.