Aims to provide practical information for those caring for someone with mental health problems. Describes each of the main types of mental illness and their treatment, with case studies of carers' experiences. Goes on to discuss issues such as the range of mental health and social care services available; housing, benefits and employment; legal issues; stigma; cultural issues; violence and suicide; and psychological treatments.
Aims to provide practical information for those caring for someone with mental health problems. Describes each of the main types of mental illness and their treatment, with case studies of carers' experiences. Goes on to discuss issues such as the range of mental health and social care services available; housing, benefits and employment; legal issues; stigma; cultural issues; violence and suicide; and psychological treatments.
Subject terms:
housing, law, mental health problems, mental health services, psychotherapy, severe mental health problems, social services, social care provision, suicide, treatment, therapy and treatment, violence, benefits, carers, employment;
Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Four main areas of working need improvement if services for older people with mental health needs are to match the aspirations of the National Service Framework for Older People and the NHS plan. Describes what needs to be done and says that in the future we should be designing services from the recipient upwards.
Four main areas of working need improvement if services for older people with mental health needs are to match the aspirations of the National Service Framework for Older People and the NHS plan. Describes what needs to be done and says that in the future we should be designing services from the recipient upwards.
Subject terms:
joint working, mental health problems, mental health services, multidisciplinary services, older people, planning, resource allocation, service development, service users, social services, standards, treatment, therapy and treatment, care management, dementia, health care;
In part two of her series on human rights and social services, the author warns departments to reform procedures now.
In part two of her series on human rights and social services, the author warns departments to reform procedures now.
Subject terms:
human rights, mental health problems, older people, residential care, rights, social services, social care provision, standards, treatment, therapy and treatment, care homes, decision making;
Critical Social Policy, 16(1), February 1996, pp.67-94.
Publisher:
Sage
Contemporary social services departments are characterized by the separation of services to adults from those to children and families. Professional disquiet about the gulf between adult mental health and child-care services has led to demands for more communication and collaboration between sectors and also at the interface with health-provider agencies. However, in the current climate, this is not necessarily a progressive move. For many women the prospect of involvement with both childcare and mental health services may prove to be something of a poisoned chalice, holding little hope of improved and more relevant services, but promising only increasing levels of coercion, censure and surveillance.
Contemporary social services departments are characterized by the separation of services to adults from those to children and families. Professional disquiet about the gulf between adult mental health and child-care services has led to demands for more communication and collaboration between sectors and also at the interface with health-provider agencies. However, in the current climate, this is not necessarily a progressive move. For many women the prospect of involvement with both childcare and mental health services may prove to be something of a poisoned chalice, holding little hope of improved and more relevant services, but promising only increasing levels of coercion, censure and surveillance.
Subject terms:
mental health, mental health problems, mothers, psychiatry, social services, social care provision, treatment, therapy and treatment, user views, women, child care, depression;
The Roshni Ghar project which is based in the Bradford town of Keighley is a mental health day care centre for Asian women. The key to the success of the centre is that tranquillisers are replaced with "talking treatment". Reports on how the project works.
The Roshni Ghar project which is based in the Bradford town of Keighley is a mental health day care centre for Asian women. The key to the success of the centre is that tranquillisers are replaced with "talking treatment". Reports on how the project works.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health problems, social services, social care provision, treatment, therapy and treatment, tranquillisers, voluntary organisations, women, Asian people, black and minority ethnic people, day centres;
Mental health issues and Afro-American women; rural social work; marital couples in transition and conflict; adult survivors of child sexual abuse; expanding the role of families of the mentally ill.
Mental health issues and Afro-American women; rural social work; marital couples in transition and conflict; adult survivors of child sexual abuse; expanding the role of families of the mentally ill.
Subject terms:
marriage breakdown, long term conditions, mental health problems, rural areas, social services, treatment, therapy and treatment, adults, black and minority ethnic people, child sexual abuse, children, families, health care;