Continuing the debate from previous issues of Mental Health Care, MICK McKEOWN and colleagues call for a radical rethink in mental health training. Institutionalised neglect continues on hospital wards and in the community. The answer is a systematic approach to mental health care. Training should focus on psychosocial interventions which are known to be effective. It should take place in the work setting, to ensure developments are integrated into the routine practice of all members of the mental health team.
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{"title":"Outside. Words from the other side. Interview by Catherine Jackson.","authors":"J Killick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 5","pages":"156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20703746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Get on board the Starlight Expresso.","authors":"C Brewer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 5","pages":"169-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20703752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inside. Words from the other side. Interview by Catherine Jackson.","authors":"J Killick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 5","pages":"157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20703747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life is sweeter.","authors":"C Jackson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 5","pages":"152-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20703742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the first of a new series of updates on recent advances in medication, RICHARD GRAY outlines the dibenzothiazepine quetiapine, which offers an alternative to conventional antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia, with fewer side effects.
{"title":"Quetiapine: a new atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia.","authors":"R Gray","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the first of a new series of updates on recent advances in medication, RICHARD GRAY outlines the dibenzothiazepine quetiapine, which offers an alternative to conventional antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia, with fewer side effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 5","pages":"163-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20703750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Service users should be involved in drawing up their care programme. In practice, however, the meetings can be intimidating, and professionals may even disregard issues which the user has specifically requested to be included in the programme. PETER PHILLIPS highlights users' concerns and criticisms of the care programme approach.
{"title":"The care programme approach: the views and experiences of service users.","authors":"P Phillips","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Service users should be involved in drawing up their care programme. In practice, however, the meetings can be intimidating, and professionals may even disregard issues which the user has specifically requested to be included in the programme. PETER PHILLIPS highlights users' concerns and criticisms of the care programme approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 5","pages":"166-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20703751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHS trusts are still looking for ways to maintain intensive continuing care in the community for people with severe mental illness. The US model of assertive community treatment (ACT) may be the answer.
{"title":"Bribery and co-operation.","authors":"E Smith","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>NHS trusts are still looking for ways to maintain intensive continuing care in the community for people with severe mental illness. The US model of assertive community treatment (ACT) may be the answer.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"46-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Is it right to medicate patients without their knowledge and consent? Or to tell an adult woman what she can eat? The UKCC is producing new guidance specifically to help mental health and learning disabilities nurses with the daily dilemmas of clinical practice.
{"title":"Telling rights from wrong.","authors":"R Bradshaw","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Is it right to medicate patients without their knowledge and consent? Or to tell an adult woman what she can eat? The UKCC is producing new guidance specifically to help mental health and learning disabilities nurses with the daily dilemmas of clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}