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The Voluntary Sector in the United Kingdom
This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and c.1500. Concentrating on the general principles of classical rhetoric central to the language of this writing, alongside the more familiar traditions of ancient history, biblical exegesis and patristic theology, this survey introduces the conceptual sophistication and semantic rigour with which medieval authors could approach their narratives of past and present events, and the diversity of ends to which this history could then be put. By providing a close reading of some of the historians who put these linguistic principles and strategies into practice (from Augustine and Orosius through Otto of Freising and William of Malmesbury to Machiavelli and Guicciardini), it traces and questions some of the key methodological changes that characterise the function and purpose of the western historiographical tradition in this formative period of its development.
Old People's Homes and the Production of Welfare
In 1980 old people comprised over half the clients of Local Authority Social Services Departments and accounted for about half of their resources, yet until then residential care of the aged had been a backwater of both research and practice. During the 1970s a large research literature had developed on the subject, particularly in the United States. However, studies had been partial in their focus on issues, making no attempt to draw together their arguments to create a model that described and evaluated competing theories about what it is that determines the quality of residential life. Originally published in 1981, Bleddyn Davies and Martin Knapp filled that gap in this book. The authors ...
EBOOK: Mental Health Policy and Practice Across Europe
We are proud to announce that this book is joint winner of the EHMA Baxter Award 2007. "A genuinely fantastic resourse; such a rare text that provides such factual information for students and lecturers. A rich review of the subject areas from across Europe. Fantastic text." Chris Kelly, Programme Leader, Bournemouth University "Mental Health Policy and Practice Across Europe is a fascinating, complicated volume that looks at one of the key dimensions of contemporary mental health policy development in Europe — the role of the European Union (EU)." Medicine Weekly In much of Europe it remains taboo to discuss the challenges that poor mental health raises for governments, societies and part...
Impressions
Martin Wells Knapp, the author, has written this book for the following reasons:1. Because of the great need of light and the absence of books on this subject.2. It is believed that some have gone over the falls of fanaticism, and that others have been greatly perplexed and hindered in their life work on account of lack of such light.3. Some who read the two sections, which were published, declared themselves to have been greatly helped thereby.4. God brought the subject-matter to the author's mind, laid it upon his heart, and opened the way for its writing, and publication.He feels that equally with his other books, God has directed and will bless in its circulation and perusal. He also believes that with His blessing upon it, it will prove a light-house by life's sea, which will help to warn of threatening danger, and aid its readers in standing "perfect and complete in all the will of God." To whom be glory forever.
Planning and Budgeting to Deliver Services for Mental Health
The purpose of this module is to present a clear and rational planning model for assessing the needs of local populations for mental health care and planning services. The module includes detailed technical information to assist planners to assess their current mental health services, use epidemiological data to calculate the resources required for mental health care, set budgeting and planning targets and implement those targets. Using practical examples to illustrate the calculations throughout, the module aims to provide countries with a set of planning and budgeting tools to assist with the delivery of mental health services. Other modules included in the package: Improving Access and Us...
Care in the Community
The community care reforms of the 1990s were shaped in part by experiences in the 1980s. Whilst many problems emerged in that period, some important lessons were also gained from the Care in the Community Demonstration Programme. Each of 28 demonstration projects helped long-stay hospital residents move to the community. In many ways, the projects tested modes of working which were later to become national policy. Care in the Community: Challenge and Demonstration describes these projects, the people who made the momentous move from hospital, and the community care that was established. The book reports the wide-ranging evaluation of the Demonstration Programme, including accounts of client outcomes, costs, service systems, financing, joint working, staffing and case management.
The Economic Evaluation of Mental Health Care
This work analyzes the economics of mental health care, covering areas such as cost analysis methods, estimating costs, evaluation of psychiatric reprovisioning, comparative equity on community-based care, reduced-list costing, decision analysis, and an evalution of costs from 1860 to 1986.
International Outcome Measures in Mental Health
How do we know if mental health services work? What are the best ways to measure the outcomes of care for people with mental health problems? This book contains five practical scales for assessing the outcomes of mental healthcare. They are the European versions of: Camberwell Assessment of Need (for unmet and met needs) Client Socio-demographic and Service Receipt Inventory (for service costs) Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (for impact of care on family members) Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (for quality of life) Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (for service satisfaction). Each scale has been standardised (in Danish, Dutch, English, Italian and Spanish), and has been shown to be reliable and valid in all these European languages. The book contains full details of the development of these scales, manuals for their use, the scales themselves and instructions on how to use the results. These new measures will be invaluable to all those in research, evaluation, audit and management who have an interest in evidence-based policy and practice in mental healthcare.
