Community-based programmes on intervention in mental illness

Community treatment of mental illness.

THE isolation of the mental hospital, which was practically absolute before the Mental Treatment Act of 1930, is rapidly disappearing, and more and more psychiatric patients are being treated in the community instead of in the hospital. The hospital’s first link with the community was the outpatient department. Later liaison was gradually established with outside services such as probation depa...

A church-based peer-led group intervention for mental illness

Community Participation in Community-based Rehabilitation Programmes

Central to the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) approach is the concept of community participation. While many projects are based on the CBR approach, it is not evident how many CBR projects indeed use and measure community participation. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively analyse the extent of evaluation of community participation in CBR studies evaluated over the last thirty y...

Community attitudes to mental illness in Edinburgh.

Mental Retardation, Poverty and Community Based Rehabilitation

A person with moderate mental retardation would, in a western country, be "diagnosed" early on in life. Consequently, such a child is likely to be sent for special education. Given the high level of job requirements, such a person is unlikely to be employed in the open market later in life. Mental retardation is one of the most frequent disabilities in most studies, mental retardation is found ...