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Mental health policy and Northern Ireland
- Author:
- PRIOR Pauline
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 27(4), December 1993, pp.323-334.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Mental health policy in Northern Ireland has moved through a number of phases during the past seventy years. This article examines some of the developments during each of these phases in the context of political factors which had an effect on policy formation and implementation.
The first 24 hours
- Authors:
- ARNOLD Cath, FINUCANE Janet, ROSE Nigel
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Report of a meeting which discussed the importance of the first 24 hours after admission to a psychiatric hospital, placing particular emphasis on the need for user centred services.
The experience of psychiatric hospital closure: an anthropological study
- Author:
- PERRING Christine McCourt
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Research study, looking at the experience of hospital closure from the patients perspective and comparing their experience with the knowledge and assumptions of service providers.
Experiencing psychiatry: user's views of services
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anne, PILGRIM David, LACEY Ron
- Publisher:
- MacMillan/MIND
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 205p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes mainstream mental health services through the experiences and views of people who have used them. In includes views on: community living; professional and other staff; and treatment (including drug therapy).
Carers perceived: policy and practice in informal care
- Authors:
- TWIGG Julia, ATKIN Karl
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 173p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Explores the reality of how service providers, such as doctors, social workers and community nurses, respond to carers. Looks at which carers get help and why, analysing how age, relationship, class and gender structure the responses of service providers and carers themselves. Also examines the moral, economic and policy issues posed by trying to fully incorporate carers' interests into service provision. Focuses on the views of both carers and service providers.
Counting for something in mental health services: effective user feedback
- Editors:
- LEIPER Rob, FIELD Vida
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 160p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Presents several different approaches to involving consumers in mental health services, with the intention of generating dialogue and debate about the place of 'consumer feedback' and about the values and limitations of the various approaches. Includes papers on: obtaining customer views using the CASPE patient satisfaction system; user input into total quality management; consumers and the QUARTZ system; the Inside Quality Assurance programme; power, change and mediation issues in quality assurance; the role of pressure groups in creating change; training mental health providers; promoting user feedback; and user feedback and organisational change.
Collective user participation in mental health: implications for social work education and training
- Authors:
- RAMON Shulamit, SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Issues in Social Work Education, 13(2), Autumn 1993, pp.53-70.
- Publisher:
- Association of Teachers in Social Work Education
Examines the development of the mental health service user movement in the UK and the need for social work training to offer skills and knowledge in collective user involvement.
Dimensions of community mental health care
- Editors:
- WELLER M.P.J., MUIJEN M.
- Publisher:
- W.B. Saunders/Bailliere Tindall
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 348p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
In-depth examination of diverse approaches to community care of mentally ill people. Includes chapters on black and minority ethnic people; primary care and community psychiatric services; social services care management; nursing in home care; health care of single homeless people and implications for resources; housing and deinstitutionalisation; case study of community services for mentally ill people; normalization; and a users perspective of community care.