Community models of mental care warrant more governmental support

Community models of mental care warrant more governmental support.

rehabilitation model are relatively new initiatives. It could be argued that all these models use the least possible healthcare resources. With fewer resources the community may be empowered to take on more responsibilities for ill people. Some may see this as a positive development, but others may see such initiatives as a way of transferring state responsibilities to the population. If there ...

Psychological models, human rights, and compulsory community mental health care

Planned changes to the 1983 Mental Health Act announced by the United Kingdom Department of Health include the controversial proposal: "to introduce supervised treatment in the community for suitable patients following an initial period of detention and treatment in hospital". This provision is widespread, and more formal, in other English-speaking jurisdictions. This paper discusses the idea o...

Mental Subnormality and Community Care

This is the second Broadsheet arising out of the three-year study of community mental health services being carried on by P.E.P. under the direction of Dr. F. M. Martin, Edinburgh University. It surveys the present situation in regard to mental subnormality in four sections?Legal Changes, Epidemiology, Local Authority and Hospital Services, and Research?the whole constituting a valuable summing...

Mental health care in the community.

Ethical dilemmas in community mental health care.

Ethical dilemmas in community mental health care is the focus of this article. The dilemmas are derived from a discussion of the results of a qualitative research project that took place in five countries of the European Union. The different stakeholders are confronted with the following dilemmas: community care versus hospital care (clients); a life with care versus a life without care (inform...