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Lullaby of Broadmoor
- Author:
- OLDEN Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 7.7.99, 1999, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Asks why Victor Nash, Susan Goscombe and Jason short, all patients at Broadmoor Hospital, committed suicide within a two-week period.
Patients' advocacy: the development of a service at the State Hospital Carstairs Scotland
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Jacqueline M., MacPHERSON Kirstine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(6), December 2001, pp.589-596.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article describes the development of an advocacy service and explores the issues involved in advocacy in a maximum secure environment. Using a model of citizen advocacy the service was started in September 1997. Patient involvement throughout the hospital was high with approximately 88% of patients having some contact with the service by January 2000. Most of the issues raised by patients are similar to those in any mental health advocacy project. Entrapment is a particular issue for some patients. Safety and security issues influence every aspect of the service. This ranges from advocates having to do more for patients rather than enable them to do things for themselves (e.g. make telephone calls) to the principle of the patients' wishes being paramount being tempered by security demands.
Care of the mentally disordered offender in the community
- Editor:
- BUCHANAN Alec
- Publisher:
- Oxford Medical
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 333p,bibliogs..
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The three sections of this book describe: the social, administrative and legal contexts in which care is provided; the clinical aspects; and finally, the interactions between different aspects of psychiatric services and the relationships with other agencies. It also discusses the tension created by the need to serve the diverse goals of improving health and the protection of the public.
Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 and Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
- Authors:
- PATRICK Hilary, WARD Adrian D
- Publisher:
- W Green & Son
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 298p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Brings together the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 and Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 with full narrative annotations. Because the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 has a substantial number of sections which are closely linked to the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984, practitioners will find it useful to access both annotated Acts in one volume. There have been significant developments in this area, for example the incorporation of the Mental Health (Public Safety and 9 and Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 and the amending provisions of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 into the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984. The annotations take these developments fully into account.
Mentally disordered offenders: managing people nobody owns
- Editors:
- WEBB David, HARRIS Robert
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 173p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes papers on: mental disorder, social order and underlying themes in crime management; public inquiries in mental health with particular reference to the Blackwood case at Broadmoor and the patient complaints of Ashworth hospital; the police and mentally disordered people in the community; diverting mentally disordered offenders from custody; developing understanding for social work with mentally disordered people; a probation case study of multi agency risk management of mentally disordered sex offenders; the Parole Board and the mentally disordered offender; the uncertain role of Mental Health Review Tribunals in the management of people with mental health problems; inquiries after homicide; and some conclusions on rights, risks and mentally disordered offenders.