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What's sauce for the goose
- Author:
- STONE Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.12.96, 1996, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Managers in social and health care are just as intolerant of staff mental health problems as other employers. The author reports on the plight of ordinary social workers.
Harsh realities
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.11.96, 1996, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how an approved social worker must balance her client's right to refuse medication against society's right to be safeguarded against any danger this might pose.
The Clubhouse Model of community support for adults with mental illness: an emerging opportunity for social work education
- Authors:
- JACKSON Robert L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Education, 32(2), Summer 1996, pp.173-180.
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
The Clubhouse Model of community support is enjoying renewed interest among American social workers and social work educators concerned with alternatives to traditional forms of community mental health treatment and rehabilitation. Describes the model and its underlying congruence with social work theory and practice. Findings of the National Task Analysis Study of Social Work Practice are presented that suggest an increasingly important role for social workers and social work educators in the continued growth of this practice model.
Mind maze
- Author:
- MUIJEN Matt
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.3.96, 1996, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The last article in the special mental health series discusses the array of agencies, statutory and voluntary, involved in mental health services. The problems involved in defining the functions of each is discussed but more clarity is needed.
Tangled web
- Author:
- AUSTIN Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.3.96, 1996, p.22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Regardless of how effective professionals are in dealing with people with a mental illness, failures do happen. The author explains the need to balance the needs of the client with the rights of the public to be protected.
Law for Northern Ireland social workers
- Editor:
- WHITE Ciaran
- Publisher:
- Gill and Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 352p.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
Practical text aimed at social workers, social work students and all related statutory and voluntary workers coming into contact with Northern Ireland law in a social work context.
Comparison of the life experiences and personal functioning of men and women in prison
- Author:
- SHERIDAN Michael J.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 77(7), September 1996, pp.423-434.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Although some researchers in the USA have studied backgrounds and needs of persons who are incarcerated, few investigators have examined the multiple occurrence of these life factors within the same sample and even fewer have compared the differences between men and women on these variables. Examines the differences between incarcerated men and women in the history and severity of substance abuse, family-of-origin factors, previous abuse and neglect, and current personal functioning. Results indicate that although the women consistently had more problems in these areas than did their male counterparts, male respondents also displayed a significant need for services. Recommendations for relevant programming for both incarcerated men and women are presented, and the role of social work in effective service delivery is discussed.
Occupational or therapy? the attitudes of mental health professionals
- Authors:
- KAUR Daljeet, SEAGER Martin, ORRELL Martin
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(7), July 1996, pp.319-322.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Reports the findings of a questionnaire study of mental health staff on a psychiatric unit which investigated their views about occupational therapy. The study evaluated the attitudes to the role of the occupational therapists, the referral and assessment process, the importance of therapeutic activities, and communication and feedback between occupational therapists and other disciplines. This study emphasises the importance of better communication between occupational therapists and the other professions and, in particular, the need to raise the profile of occupational therapy within local teaching programmes.
Quality living
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.6.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how one social worker trod the fine line between respecting a client's wish to live independently while making sure that the move would not put him seriously at risk.
Learning materials on mental health: risk assessment
- Editors:
- ALBERG Corinna, HATFIELD Barbara, HUXLEY Peter
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. School of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 184p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Teaching pack designed to inform those involved in mental health risk assessment and risk management of the latest knowledge and best practice. The pack assumes prior training in and an understanding of mental health. A key theme of the materials is the importance of multidisciplinary working. Contains modules on: characteristics of risk; intervention and management; legislation and policy; groups with special needs; ethical issues and user, carer and other perspectives; and training exercises.