The World Health Organization's Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 stipulates human rights as a cross-cutting principle (WHO, 2013) and foresees global targets to update policies as well as mental health laws in line with international and regional human rights instruments. The international human rights agreements repeatedly refer to health, including mental health. The most pertinent provisi...

Current policy and practice directed towards people with learning disabilities originates in the deinstitutionalisation processes, civil rights concerns and integrationist philosophies of the 1970s and 1980s. However, historians know little about the specific contexts within which these were mobilised. Although it is rarely acknowledged in the secondary literature, MIND was prominent in campaig...

In one of his fi rst papers, Thomas Kuhn ( 1959 ) addressed the “essential tension” implicit in scientifi c research, i.e., the contrast between convergent and divergent thinking. He considered both to be central to the advance of science. Convergent thinking is what scientists do in their daily “normal research projects,” where the “scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and th...

In this paper, we introduce tripled partially ordered sets and monotone functions on tripled partiallyordered sets. Some basic properties on these new dened sets are studied and some examples forclarifying are given.

services is to ensure that staff are equipped with the right knowledge, skills and attitudes to deliver high-quality mental health care, as defined by the National Service Framework (NSF) (Department of Health (DoH) 1999a). This challenge is particularly daunting for services providing acute inpatient psychiatric care because of the alarming shortage of well-trained mental health nurses (DoH 19...

Conscious experience is an experience, i.e. a particular relaxation of mind/body system. Mental events are stable reverberations of sets of neural cell assemblies. Dynamical models based on this assumption allow to explain a large body of empirical evidence, such as the content of consciousness in dynamical illusions and subjective ordering of events in experiments with short-time direct stimul...

Arenas et al. [1] introduced the notion of lambda-closed sets as a generalization of locally closed sets. In this paper, we introduce the notions of lambda-locally closed sets, Lambda_lambda-closed sets and lambda_g-closed sets and obtain some decompositions of closed sets and continuity in topological spaces.