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A marriage of convenience?
- Author:
- PELIKAN Cathy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.9.91, 1991, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Questions whether the principles of the old-style psychiatric institutions aren't being transferred carte blanche into care in the community services.
Making the connection
- Author:
- WEDDLE Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 4.7.91, 1991, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on the establishment of the Dumfries and Galloway Mental Health Association by a hospital-based social worker who built up a network of users and ex-users of mental health services into a community self-help resource.
Innovation without change: consumer power in psychiatric services
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 192p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Traces the history of mental illness services to the present day. Argues that the only way to improve these is to listen to the users, and to give them a say in the planning and running of services.
Power games: a workshop on user empowerment
- Author:
- BARKER Ingrid
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing/Mind
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 13p.,handouts,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Hove
A half-day training workshop for workers in a mental health setting.
Registering - a tricky business?
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 4.7.91, 1991, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The Department of Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists believe 'at-risk' registers can protect mentally ill people - but there are implications that need to be considered to ensure that 'risk' should be closely defined in accordance with nationally consistent criteria, legal safeguards applicable to guardianship should apply, keyworkers should be allocated to people on the register and should work to discharge the person from the register as soon as possible, and the user should play a role in what information is held on the register.
Is race on your agenda?: improving mental health services for people from black and minority groups
- Authors:
- CHRISTIE Yvonne, BLUNDEN Roger
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 24p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part 1 is on gaps in services and includes advocacy, interpreting services, staff training, and planning and consultation. Part 2 offers guidelines for consultation with users, linked with specific grant proposals, stressing the importance of ensuring that local mental health services are responsive to the needs of people from black and minority groups.