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Review of the report of the inquiry into the care and treatment of Christopher Clunis: a black perspective
- Author:
- HARRIS Vernon
- Publisher:
- Race Equality Unit/National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the information compiled by the Christopher Clunis Inquiry team and analyses the validity of the conclusions reached by the team, from the perspective of race equality.
The professionals' double standards
- Author:
- LINEHAN Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 15.7.93, 1993, p.11.
Black and Afro-Caribbean people are at least six to ten times more likely to be diagnosed as having schizophrenia. The National Schizophrenia Fellowship have published a position statement on this over-representation. Services for black and ethnic minority people need to be made more effective and sensitive.
Understanding the excess of psychosis among the African-Caribbean population in England: review of current hypotheses
- Authors:
- SHARPLEY Mandy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178(Supplement 40), April 2001, pp.60-68.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Increased rates of schizophrenia continue to be reported among the African-Caribbean population in England. This article aims to evaluate the competing biological, psychological and social explanations that have been proposed. A literature review, reveals that African-Caribbean population in England is at increased risk of both schizophrenia and mania; the higher rates remain when operational diagnostic criteria are used. The excess of the two psychotic disorders are probably linked: African-Caribbean patients with schizophrenia show more affective symptoms, and more relapsing course with greater social disruption but fewer chronic negative symptoms, than White patients. No simple hypothesis explains these findings. Concludes that more complex hypotheses are needed. One such links cultural variation in symptom reporting, the use of phenomenological constructs by psychiatrists and social disadvantage.
Peeling labels
- Author:
- FERNANDO Suman
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 87, September 1997, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Discusses the diagnosis of schizophrenia and argues that 'schizophrenia' is a racist concept.
Mental health and social justice: gender, race and psychological consequences of unfairness
- Author:
- SHEPPARD Michael
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 32(6), September 2002, pp.779-797.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Mental health or ill health is, by some, thought to be inherent within the individual, whereas social justice, as its name indicates, resides within the realm of the social. However, where we understand social justice as, on the one hand, an issue involving equality and fairness, and on the other as having both material and symbolic dimensions it becomes clear that there is an important link. In particular groups which suffer disadvantage and discrimination may be expected to suffer higher rates of mental ill health. However, the key to understanding this is by identifying the mechanisms by which this can happen. In order to do this it is necessary that one does not look at mental health (or illness) in an undifferentiated way, since there are different processes involved for different forms of mental ill health. This article, therefore, looks at this by focusing on the issue of social justice through two significant relationships: gender and depression, and race and schizophrenia. It then examines the mechanisms which link these together, and show how they are significant psychological consequences of social injustice arising in both material and symbolic form.
This is madness: a critical look at psychiatry and the future of mental health services
- Editors:
- NEWNES Craig, HOLMES Guy, DUNN Cailzie
- Publisher:
- PCCS Books
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 296p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Ross-on-Wye
A critique of the contemporary British psychiatric system. Includes contributions on: the history of psychiatry; social inequalities and mental health; racism and mental health; diagnosis; drugs; ECT; schizophrenia and families; psychiatric hospitals and patients' councils; hearing voices and the politics of oppression; user involvement in mental health service development; the service user and survivor movement; survivor controlled alternatives to psychiatric services; community care and the Wokingham MIND crisis house; promoting community resources; green approaches to occupational and income needs in preventing chronic dependency; the role of education in the lives of people with mental health difficulties; and the future of mental health services.
The politics of psychiatry and community care: a discourse analytic approach to the case study of John Baptist
- Author:
- GRAY Benjamine T.
- Journal article citation:
- Changes an International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 16(1), April 1998, pp.24-37.
Challenges and criticises conventional ways of understanding, and analyses the contemporary expression of racism(s) in a mental-health service.
Invisible exports
- Author:
- CORDUFF Ethel
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 12.3.97, 1997, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Ask why Irish-born women in Britain have higher rates of mental illness than both indigenous and other immigrant women.