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'Like bees round the honeypot' social work responses to parents with mental health needs
- Authors:
- HUGMAN Richard, PHILLIPS Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 6(3), 1992, pp.193-205.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
When service users with mental health needs also are parents social work, along with other professions, often has tended to separate these roles, with unhelpful consequences. This article reports research which looked at the views of parents with mental health needs concerning professional responses, focusing particularly on social work. It examines their experiences of parenting and mental health difficulties in relation to social workers' responses to these two areas of their lives, and suggests that social workers must address aspects together to provide appropriate responses.
It's a new order, but is it justice?
- Author:
- GOULD Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.4.92, 1992, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Under the Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991, social workers will soon have a role in ensuring that mentally ill offenders get a fair trial; but they will also become involved in enforcement, which might lead to compulsory treatment in the community.