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Evaluation of comprehensive care of the mentally ill: the transition from mental hospital care to extramural care of the mentally ill in European Community Countries
- Editors:
- FREEMAN Hugh, HENDERSON John
- Publishers:
- Gaskell, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 220p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comparative mental health policy: from institutional to community care
- Author:
- GOODWIN Simon
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 183p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comparative analysis of mental health policy in Western Europe and North America. Considers how, and why, differences have developed in the implementation of these policies. Examines the transition from institutional to community based models of care; identifies variations in the inception, pace and style in which community based service provision has emerged in different countries; assesses the problems and issues that have arisen as a result of the shift towards community care and treatment; and argues that it is a policy made up of conflicting aims and purposes and that this is reflected in its implementation.
Therapeutic communities: past, present and future
- Editors:
- CAMPLING Penelope, HAIGH Rex
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 272p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the tradition of therapeutic communities, their principles and their context in order to provide an introduction to both theory and practice. Includes chapters on: Northfield, set up during WWII to treat soldiers suffering from psychoneurosis; the therapeutic community approach to social psychiatry; the Cassel heritage and psychoanalytic origins of today's work; extending the group matrix to therapeutic communities; nursing and the importance of the psychosocial environment; joining and leaving; boundaries; ethics and consent; grief and despair in the large group; reflections on a creative therapies group; hospital communities for people with Schizophrenia; community care; prison communities and therapy within a custodial setting; children and young people; therapeutic communities in Europe; and five universal qualities that are the quintessence of a therapeutic environment.