Family crisis intervention in social services

Crisis intervention services in juvenile detention centers.

Social systems intervention and crisis resolution. Part 1: Assessment

The National Health Service (NHS) Plan (Department of Health, 2000) set out an intention to establish 335 crisis resolution and home treatment teams in England by 2004, with the expectation that bed usage in acute adult general psychiatry could be further reduced (Joy et al, 2001). The initiative also aimed to make generally available a more acceptable and appropriate model of care, including ‘...

The Family and the Social Services

pamphlet, "is a reflection of failure and the root causes of child deprivation?fa1?1', disintegration?remain untouched." The real danger-signal was the fact that app'1^ tions had risen at a rate nearly four times that of the growth-rate of the cb1 population, the great majority of these requests coming from parents who temporarily ill; 24,837 young children were placed in care in 1962/3 for thi...

Ethics in family planning/reproductive health services

Family Crisis

same language. But in spite of all these attacks, the family is still the best social unit we've got and there seems little likelihood of any alternative to it. Theories that schizophrenics are 'driven mad' by their relatives are so far without proof (or even serious attempts at proof) though we do know that all kinds of stress may sometimes be involved in starting illness. In spite of the trem...