What's in a name?: Let's stop hiding behind euphemisms and tackle clients' very real problems
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The term 'challenging behaviour' with regard to mental health, can mean aggression, ranging from extreme verbal abuse to acts of violence. Such behaviour has been dealt with in various ways in the past and psychiatric nurses had little need to assess their actions towards patients. Therapeutic models and processes started to influence practice by the 1970s, leading to a more elaborate nursing vocabulary. Modern methods of working require further new language systems to enable the professional 'moving on' of nursing care from the era of custodialism.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1998
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A change for the better
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The mental health policy in the UK has concentrated mostly on providing care away from the institution and into the community, since the late 1950s. The Lambeth Healthcare NHS Trust works in a socially and economically poor area with a varied mix of ethnic groups. Mental health services were traditionally provided at a large Victorian asylum, and it was decided to introduce more client oriented and community based services. There are now two community mental health centres (CMHC), using systematic approaches to care planning.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1997
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Homecare of the elderly with mental health needs
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Providing home-based mental care for older people is a vitally important part of aged care. A London-based project has set up a specific home nursing team which aims to care for older people with mental illness but in their own homes. The alternative to the nursing care team would be hospital admittance for people who could no longer care for themselves. The care team involves family and social workers in providing full medical care.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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