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Whose hands are on the purse strings?
- Author:
- HASSELL Keith
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.4.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how the funds of people with learning difficulties or a mental illness can be protected.
Human rights legislation
- Author:
- PEDLER Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 90, March 1998, p.24.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The Human Rights Bill currently before Parliament incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. The author outlines areas of the new Bill, and the European Convention on Human Rights which are of interest and relevance to mental health services.
Service users' perspectives on housing and support
- Author:
- SWANSTON Kenny
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 3(3), September 1998, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Describes the principles and features of housing and support which are valued by mental health service users in Fife, Scotland.
Patient advocacy in psychiatry: the Austrian and Dutch models
- Author:
- FORSTER Rudolf
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 41(2), April 1998, pp.155-168.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Advocacy has emerged as a key concept in the process of the modernisation of western psychiatry. This article combines a general discussion of the advocacy approach with an analysis of its application in practice. Two projects which are among the most advanced projects of professional advocacy in European mental health are used for discussion.
New alliance to promote Incapable Adults Bill
- Author:
- NICKALLS Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Third Force News, 27.2.98, 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
In 1995 after much deliberation, the Scottish Law Commission recommended wide-ranging changes in the law relating to the property, financial affairs and personal welfare of mentally incapable adults. As yet this Bill has not been passed through Parliament. Reports on a pressure group which has been formed with the sole aim of getting the proposals onto the legislative calendar this autumn.
Hoarding: eccentricity or pathology: when to intervene?
- Author:
- THOMAS Norma D.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 29(1), 1998, pp.45-55.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Compulsive hoarding behaviour, exhibited in late life, can have serious implications. Geriatric care managers and practitioners in Older Adult Protective Services often grapple with issues related to ethics and ageing, including client self-determination, that are raised by hoarding actions. Involuntary intervention may be needed to insure that the older person is not in imminent danger. Case examples are used in the article to illustrate the behaviour as well as provide outcomes.
The primacy of the ethical aim in clinical social work: its relationship to social justice and mental health
- Author:
- DEAN Harvey E.
- Journal article citation:
- Smith College Studies in Social Work, 69(1), November 1998, pp.9-24.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
There is a growing emphasis in the social work literature that social work's overall mission should be that of social justice and that mental health be relegated as outside of social work's realm. This article draws upon a constructionist and narrative perspective in developing a general formulation of clinical social work to bridge the gap between social justice and mental health.
Psychotherapy, distributive justice, and social work revisited
- Author:
- WAKEFIELD Jerome C.
- Journal article citation:
- Smith College Studies in Social Work, 69(1), November 1998, pp.25-57.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Comments on an article by Harvey Dean (1998). He argues that social work has broader ethical aims that encompass both pursuit of justice and treatment of mental disorder. In this article, the author reviews his earlier position and responds to Dean's objections. Argues that Dean's narrativist account of the profession's ethical aims is overly broad and that he confuses non-disordered psychological problems with mental disorders. Concludes that neither his 'minimal distributive justice' view of social work's mission nor his exclusion of treatment of mental disorder from the profession's essential mission are disconfirmed by Dean's arguments.
Do we need a Mental Health Act?
- Authors:
- HARRISON Kate, ROBINSON Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 94, November 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The two authors give differing personal views of the law on mental incapacity and decision making regarding treatment.
Making a world of difference to mental health
- Author:
- HILL Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- NCVO News, 98, October 1998, p.8.
- Publisher:
- National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Looks at what is being promoted during this year's World Mental Health Day, now that care in the community has been crossed off the agenda.