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The development of potential models of advance directives in mental health care
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Jacqueline M, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 12(6), December 2003, pp.575-584.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The review of mental health law in the UK has involved consideration of mechanisms for advance directives in mental health care. The aim was to develop potential models of advance directives based on the views of stakeholders in mental health services in Scotland. Focus groups and individual interviews were conducted with service users, professionals and carers who had an interest in advance directives. Leaflets and policy documents from campaign groups and voluntary organisations were collected and along with data generated in interview and group discussion were analysed for themes. Six potential models were developed that highlighted the overarching themes of co-operation versus autonomy and the legal status of any directive. There is a wide variety of opinion about what advance directives could or should bring to mental health care, they are not all achievable through the use of any one model.
Not just users of services but contributors to society: the opportunities of the disability rights agenda
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 6(3), September 2001, pp.25-28.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Discusses the relevance of models of disability for people with mental health problems. Looks at the opportunities presented in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 as they apply to mental health.
Taking instructions
- Author:
- KELLEY Nancy
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 107, January 2001, p.11.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The author defines and defends independent mental health advocacy.
Right on our side
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.6-8.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on how legislation is just one of the many tools the Disability Rights Commission will be using to tackle discrimination.
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.
Compliance of informed choice
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel E., REPPER Julie M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(2), April 1999, pp.117-129.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the ways in which attempts to increase compliance with psychotropic medication run counter to the goal of enabling people to make informed choices about their treatment. An alternative approach to understanding why people behave in the way that they do is explored within the framework of health belief models of behaviour developed in relation to physical health illness.