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A marriage of convenience?
- Author:
- PELIKAN Cathy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.9.91, 1991, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Questions whether the principles of the old-style psychiatric institutions aren't being transferred carte blanche into care in the community services.
Residential needs for severely disabled psychiatric patients: the case for hospital hostels
- Editor:
- YOUNG Robyn
- Publisher:
- HMSO/Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 72p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Set of papers representing different perspectives on the problem of providing the best treatment and support for severely mentally ill people, while maximising their rights to control their own lifestyles.
Community control?
- Author:
- CAVADINO Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 6, 1991, pp.482-493.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Discusses the possibility of introducing a Community Treatment Order which would enable psychiatry patients in the community to be given compulsory treatment and reviews the current state of the law and the civil liberties issues involved.
Mental illness: prejudice, discrimination and the law
- Authors:
- CAMBELL Tom, HEGINBOTHAM Chris
- Publisher:
- Dartmouth
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 263p.bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Defines the nature of discrimination, and analyses the nature of mental illness. Looks at ways in which mentally ill people are discriminated against in all walks of life. Develops a conceptual framework centring on rights and interests of mentally ill people and articulates a non-discrimatory approach to services. Provides a critique of mental health legislation, and makes proposals for change.
General practice, social work, and mental health sections: the social control of women
- Author:
- SHEPPARD M.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 21(6), 1991, pp.663-683.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
A survey of referrals for compulsory admissions indicated that GPs discriminated against women; discusses the role of approved social workers and the implications for civil liberties.
Social work and mental disorder: a practical guide for social workers
- Author:
- BEECH David
- Publisher:
- Pepar
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 112p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Includes descriptions of mental disorder, models of mental illness, guidance for the social worker in working with disordered clients, social work with schizophrenic clients, psychopathy, mental handicap or mental impairment, the legal context, the role of the courts and local authorities, admissions to hospital, consent to treatment, the roles and functions of the approved social worker, the rights of the patient and the nearest relative, mental health review tribunals, the Mental Health Act Commission, and medication.