Risk, Recovery and Capacity: Competing or Complementary Approaches to Mental Health Social Work

Mental Health and Social Work

L.C.C. Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

set up in 1943 by the Medical Officer of Health of the L.C.C. in connection with the re-organization of the Council's Mental Health Services, and was compiled primarily for the use of Psychiatric and Mental Deficiency Social Workers in the Public Health Department. The actual information it contains is .therefore related to the methods used by one particular Authority, but so varied are the top...

Doctors, their mental health and capacity for work.

BACKGROUND Information about doctors' mental ill-health is limited. This study looks at doctors' careers following mental illness and the strategies that helped them return to work. AIM To examine the effect of mental ill-health on doctors' careers. METHODS Questionnaire survey of members of the Doctors Support Network (DSN). The DSN is a peer support group for doctors who have experienced,...

Occupational epidemiology and work related inequalities in health: a gender perspective for two complementary approaches to work and health research.

OBJECTIVES To provide a framework for epidemiological research on work and health that combines classic occupational epidemiology and the consideration of work in a structural perspective focused on gender inequalities in health. METHODS Gaps and limitations in classic occupational epidemiology, when considered from a gender perspective, are described. Limitations in research on work related ...