Safety catch: As usual, it is practitioners who are left to put the meaning and humanity into mental health policy
Article Abstract:
Many specific measures of care in the community are developments of community care rather than a replacement, such as assertive outreach teams, better training, investment and 24-hour helplines. Safe, Sound and Supportive points to the underlying principle of public safety and this may have unnerved user groups and practitioners. There is an assumption that mental illness is responsible for the increase in homicides, but this is inaccurate. An anxious public need to be reassured and there needs to be legislation for an appropriate and sensitive mental health service.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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Article Abstract:
Mental health professionals offer their views on the treatment of personality disorders within the mental health service sector of the UK National Health Service. Some believe that psychiatry has as much to offer to patients with personality disorders as it does to people with diagnoses of mental illness. Some professionals believe that there is no other suitable source of help within the health service, and others believe that the health service should pursue the development of a better model of care.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1998
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