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The rights and wrongs of control and restraint
- Author:
- HOPTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 73, February 1995, p.16.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Discusses the controversial techniques of control and restraint used by nurses.
User involvement in the education of mental health nurses: an evaluation of possibilities
- Author:
- HOPTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 42, Winter 1994, pp.47-60.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Argues that the substantive empowerment of users of mental health services can be most effectively achieved by employing service users as educators of neophyte mental health professionals. Using British mental health nursing as a case study, this issue is discussed with reference to the occupational culture of nursing and the wider social-political context. Concludes that despite a rhetoric of 'citizenship' and user involvement in the planning of public services, the internal contradictions of Thatcherism and Majorism mitigate against the implementation of such radical change.