Download or read book Report of the Committee of Inquiry Into Complaints about Ashworth Hospital written by Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry into Complaints about Ashworth Hospital and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of the Inquiry written by Jill Manthorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. What similarities or differences were there between these inquiries? How effective were they in bringing about change? Whose interest did they best serve? These are some of the questions The Age of the Inquiry explores in detail, bringing together distinguished contributors with personal experience of chairing or providing evidence to inquiries to consider: the participant's view of inquiries the purpose of inquiries the impact of inquiries on health and social policy inquiries into: child abuse and death; homicides by mental health service users; the abuse of adults with learning disabilities; the abuse of older people. Wide-ranging in scope, The Age of the Inquiry focuses on service and policy development. It provides an invaluable text for students, teachers and professionals from a wide range of disciplines and professional groups.
Download or read book Psychology Discourse And Social Practice written by Gill Aitken and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitioners-researchers, this co-authored book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its "expert" knowledge to turn social marginalisation into pathology. Chapters address a range of cultural and institutional arenas in which inequalities structured around categories of gender, "race", class and sexuality are reproduced by psychological practices: from self-help books to special hospitals, from school exclusions to Gender Identity Clinics, from mothering magazines to mental health services. But far from just documenting the damage, this book identifies the ways in which both professionals and users of services can act to counter psychology's abuses. As practical intervention as well as theoretical critique, Psychology, Discourse and Social Practice offers tangible examples of how change can be effected. This book will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in psychology, health, education and welfare disciplines. It is also relevant to social workers and education and health professionals, as well as professional psychologists.
Download or read book Key Concepts in Mental Health written by David Pilgrim and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 4th edition, this text continues to give you a complete and concise overview of mental health and all the issues that surround it from a theoretical and practical perspective. Restructured into 4 sections, the book starts by defining mental health and mental abnormality before examining the mental health services and the place mental health takes in society. Fully updated, the book offers: 66 bite-sized chapters including new ones on the Biopsychosocial Model, trauma and mindfulness Key points summarising what you need to know for study and practice Examples of further reading to help you expand your knowledge It is essential reading for students of health, nursing, mental health, social work and social care. It is also valuable reading for students of counselling and psychotherapy.
Download or read book Law and the Spirit of Inquiry written by Charles Blake and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and fascinating collection of essays, in honour of Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, reflects the high regard in which he is held throughout the world. In his Foreword to the book, Lord Woolf, the Master of the Rolls, emphasises the contribution which Sir Louis has made, `in so many capacities. Of course as an advocate and an eminent Queen's Counsel (both in England and Wales and Northern Ireland); he frequently appeared for those who are disadvantaged against the establishment ... Louis' commitment has been on an international scale and in many of the out-of-the-way parts of the world he has a near-hero status. Not many Queen's Counsel will, for example, have been prepared to make the near 6-week journey to St. Helena to defend a client ... His extraordinary range of writing should not be forgotten. Besides his numerous articles for legal journals, he was the author of many books ... His writing demonstrates not only his erudition but also the breadth of his interests. Alas, not many lawyers or judges share Sir Louis' concern about the literary quality of their writing ... As part of his contribution to justice, I include his Chairmanship of the Press Council ... One of the most difficult and sensitive areas in which to achieve justice arises where the freedom of media and the press come into conflict with the rights of the individual to have his privacy respected ... not only was Sir Louis a distinguished last Chairman of the Press Council, he was responsible for the issue of a Code of Practice which was in some ways the precursor of the Code of the New Press Complaints Commission.' `Louis has also been a great campaigner for law reform. He has many achievements to his credit but I suspect that the cause which was closest to his heart was penal reform. A number of extremely authoritative contributions to this Festschrift therefore focus on some of the areas of reform for which Sir Louis campaigned ... However, it is in connection with the Inquiries that he has conducted that Sir Louis has found the most important outlet for his abundant talents. His creativity, his powers of analysis, his understanding and ability to relate to the public have again and again been called on by the government of the day and other institutions, both in this country and abroad, when matters of great public concern have arisen.' All the distinguished contributors to this Festschrift have known and esteemed Sir Louis in one or more of his multifarious capacities. They and the editors dedicate this volume to this remarkable man with their admiration and warm affection.
Download or read book Forensic Mental Health written by Annie Bartlett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the forensic mental health system - how it operates, the people involved, the problems inherent in the system, and the huge ethical dilemmas - brings together a range of specialists, who describe the processes involved in dealing with a mentally disordered offender.
Download or read book Offence Paralleling Behaviour written by Michael Daffern and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New to the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Offence Paralleling Behaviour presents an original framework of individualised assessment and treatment methods for clinicians working in the forensic environment. Provides a framework that helps practitioners to identify and work with offence-relevant behaviour and evidence pro-social change Describes how Offence Paralleling Behaviour (OPB) can be successfully identified and used in risk assessment and treatment planning Brings together leading academics and frontline clinicians, including psychiatric nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, drug and alcohol specialists, and correctional officers, as well as featuring the views of prisoners on OPB Presents methods which allow staff to identify and use OPB in clinical practice
Download or read book Treatment Without Consent written by Phil Fennell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phil Fennell's tightly argued study traces the history of treatment of mental disorder in Britain over the last 150 years. He focuses specifically on treatment of mental disorder without consent within psychiatric practice, and on the legal position which has allowed it. Treatment Without Consent examines many controversial areas: the use of high-strength drugs and Electro Convulsive Therapy, physical restraint and the vexed issue of the sterilisation of people with learning disabilities. Changing notions of consent are discussed, from the common perception that relatives are able to consent on behalf of the patient, to present-day statutory and common law rules, and recent Law Commission recommendations. This work brings a complex and intriguing area to life; it includes a table of legal sources and an extensive bibliography. It is essential reading for historians, lawyers and all those who are interested in the treatment of mental disorder.
Download or read book Handbook of Forensic Mental Health written by Keith Soothill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive reference book on the subject of forensic mental health, looking at what forensic mental health is and its assessment, management and treatment. It focuses on key topics and the issues underpinning them in contemporary society. The book includes: an account of the historical development of forensic mental health, along with a description of the three mental health systems operating in the UK an in-depth analysis of the forensic mental health process and system, including an analysis of the different systems applied for juveniles and adults an examination of the main issues in forensic mental health including sex offending, personality disorders and addiction a breakdown of the key skills needed for forensic mental health practice. This is an authoritative reference book which will be a crucial text for practitioners, academics and students in the forensic mental health field.
Download or read book The Therapeutic Milieu Under Fire written by John Adlam and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book explores the psychodynamics and socio-politics of the forensic therapeutic milieu. Contributors describe the ethical, intellectual and emotional challenges of their work, providing readers with a theoretical and practical understanding of factors that help and hinder the development of effective therapeutic relationships.
Download or read book Understanding Treatment Without Consent written by Ian Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Understanding Treatment Without Consent, key contributors examine the work of the UK Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC), which was established to ensure the care and rights of people subjected to the various sections of the 1983 Mental Health Act. Based on a research project funded by the Department of Health, the book also offers a broader exploration of mental health provision in both historical and contemporary contexts, discussing whether mental health reforms have learned the lessons of history. The book builds on earlier work on treatment without consent by providing a more policy-oriented account of mental health law and regulation in the context of health service modernization, discussing contemporary issues facing the MHAC and looking at its future role.
Download or read book Women Madness and the Law written by Wendy Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.
Download or read book Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus written by Dave Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression, transformation and assistance. It critically examines taken for granted psychiatric practices both past and current, shedding light on the often political nature of psychiatry and reconceptualizing its central and sensitive issues through the radical theory of figures such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Goffman, and Szasz. As such, this ground-breaking collection embraces a broad understanding of psychiatric practices and engages the reader in a critical understanding of their effects, challenging the discipline’s altruistic rhetoric of therapy and problematizing the ways in which this is operationalized in practice. A comprehensive exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control, while theorizing their workings in creative and imaginative ways.
Download or read book Inside Ashworth written by David Pilgrim and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High security institutions for mentally disordered offenders are far more complex than regular mental health hospitals or prisons. Ashworth Hospital is no exception. This book raises questions as to why Ashworth resisted the call for change and survived moves towards de-institutionalisation, enquiries, and threats of closure.
Download or read book Good Practice with Vulnerable Adults written by Jacki Pritchard and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Practice in Social Work 9 This is a practical and trans-disciplinary guide for professionals working with vulnerable adults, who include the frail elderly, those with mental health problems or physical disabilities, learning disabilities or serious physical illness. The contributors address key problems and dilemmas in working to protect these groups from abuse, and to support those who have already experienced abuse or neglect. They consider the procedural implications of the latest Department of Health guidance on working with vulnerable adults, and make practical suggestions for working with both victims and abusers. Highlighting the importance of interagency working, the contributors show how the related fields of child abuse, domestic violence and adult abuse can come together to promote increased understanding and good practice. With its emphasis on effective practice and contributions from social work, general medical practice, criminal justice and adult protection, this collection will be an indispensable resource for students, practitioners, service managers and policy makers in all sectors.
Download or read book Forensic Music Therapy written by Stella Compton Dickinson and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Appendices. "The oak and the ash" [lyrics] : English folksong ; The prototype treatment manual ; The treatment stage summary ; Interview schedule ; Further details from the original qualitative data.
Download or read book Mental Health Review Tribunals written by Anselm Eldergill and published by Anselm Eldergill. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative combination of legal and administrative practice and procedure and the operation of mental health tribunals (MHRTs). It includes: . Case summaries of all important reported and unreported decisions. Explanatory chapter on medical terms and the interpretation of special investigations. Diagnostic guidelines for the major forms of mental disorder. Detailed guidance on preparation of cases. Important amendments made by the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997
