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State Mental Hospitals
The 1970s constitute the decade of decisions about state mental hospi tals! These large, monolithic, and seemingly impervious institutions are being phased out in some states and their basic purpose for exis tence is being seriously questioned in almost all others. Since 1970, hospitals have closed in California, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Washington, and Wisconsin. Simi lar closings have occurred in several provinces of Canada, in Great Britain, and in some European countries. The purpose of the book is to examine the multiple issues growing out of the hospital closings: Why are the state hospitals being closed? What is the impact of closings on patien...
Paths to Psychiatric Hospitalisation
Admission to psychiatric hospital is the end-result of a complicated social process. This book unravels the social influences, medical contingencies and decision-making which determine outcome. The process is described in terms of the individual, the family and the professionals involved.
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Textbook of Hospital Psychiatry, Second Edition
"When it was originally published in 2009, the Textbook of Hospital Psychiatry was the first comprehensive guide to hit the market in more than a decade. This updated edition includes new material in each of the 30 chapters, with a focus on treatment, staffing, and quality of care changes, and includes new, forward-looking chapters on consumer and family perspectives, collaborative care, measurement-based care, safety, and more. Providers and policymakers agree that integrating behavioral treatments into regular courses of patient care helps address post-discharge needs, including safe housing, reliable transportation, and nutrition. Behavioral wellness is currently benefitting from increase...
The Treatment and Security Needs of Special Hospital Patients
This work reports the findings of a project, funded by the Special Hospital Service Authority and the Department of Health, which set out to describe a cross-section of patients in the special hospitals and to make a critical assessment of their current needs for treatment and security. The need for a project of this type arose form three main areas of change within psychiatry: the move to community care; the creation of regional secure units; and the growth of medical audit.
Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and The Netherlands
Anti-psychiatry' is a movement more sloganized than analysed. Until now it has been associated in the English-speaking world primarily with R.D. Laing and a coterie of his associates, and a radical critique not just of psychiatric hospitalization but of the very premises of psychiatry itself and the basic institutions of society, especially the family. But are these notions accurate, or rather distorted images, created by Laing himself or by the media? In this book, which has emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in June 1997, the realities of critical psychiatry are explored, using comparisons and contrasts between the British and the Dutch experiences as a probe. There were, it turns out, various distinct anti-psychiatries - indeed, hardly anybody actually used that label about themselves - and they played a role in the reform no less than the rejection of regular psychiatry.
