An assessment of the Children and Young Persons Act and the difficulties which stand in the way of its full implementation.
An assessment of the Children and Young Persons Act and the difficulties which stand in the way of its full implementation.
A new book, reporting on a research programme, sheds more light on the vexed question of the adverse effects on schizophrenics of a prolonged stay in hospital.
Who are the vagrants that we try our best to avoid in the city streets? How have they reached such a state of hopelessness and destitution? Do we care anyway?
Despite their size and complexity, mental hospitals have been scarcely touched by the management methods revolution of the last decade. The factors which complicate the use of new techniques in hospital management are not insurmountable.