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The Isles of social work
- Author:
- STARK Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, July 2012, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Following a visit to the Western Isles of Scotland, the author highlights the challenges and innovations associated with practising in remote locations. The author spoke with social workers, directors and carers on her visits. After talking to people who used services, two main themes emerged. The first providing quality, complex care in the community and also how to support people with complex needs who had been in mainland institutions for many years.
Across the great divide
- Author:
- AGEW Thelma
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 1.11.95, 1995, p.16.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The gulf between health care and social services has been identified as a major obstacle to community care. This article describes how Riverside Mental Health Trust has overcome it.
Forcing the issue?
- Author:
- COOMBES Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 23.2.95, 1995, p.7.
Looks at the implications for social workers of the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Bill.
Psychotic processes and community care: the difficulty in finding the third position
- Author:
- FOSTER Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 7(2), Autumn 1993, pp.129-139.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Proposes a model of community care which encompasses mental illness, professional workers and the community. These three elements are seen as the corners of a triangular space which theoretically becomes the container of mentally disturbing anxieties and within which these anxieties can be addressed, thought about and managed.
Integrating case management and psychiatric hospitalization
- Author:
- KANTER Joel S.
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 16(1), February 1991, pp.34-42.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
In-patient treatment is still frequently needed even when community care is well developed. Discusses obstacles between case managers and hospital staff, and ways of promoting effective collaboration.
Community services for people with mental illness: the social worker's role
- Author:
- SMITH Richard
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. School of Applied Social Studies
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 38p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Reviews the shift from hospital care to community care for mentally ill people and examines the role of social workers in the provision of services, in particular in multidisciplinary teams.
The practice of community psychiatric nursing and mental health social work in Salford: some implications for community care
- Authors:
- WOOFF K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 152, June 1988, pp.783-792.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Compares working styles of Community Psychiatric Nurses and Mental Health Social Workers.
Recognition of mental health problems by doctors and social workers
- Authors:
- COHEN J., FISHER M.
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 1(3), 1987, pp.225-240.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Reviews previous research on the prevalence of dementia in the community, reports on a recent study and argues that there is a high prevalence of mental illness among people in contact with social services.
Breaking the cycle
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.8.00, 2000, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An older woman with mental health problems has been going back and forth from her house to hospital for many years. Now, she has been referred to an assertive outreach team. Her social worker explains how the team has attempted to improve the well being of the client.
Adult abuse and the law
- Author:
- CLEMENTS Luke
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.7.00, 2000, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
When it comes to protecting adults from abuse the law is weak, and social workers have little power to intervene. Explains how European legal bodies are changing things for the better.