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Wounded healers

31 March 1999

Nursing Standard

Feature

NHS nurse recruitment is in crsis. The Department of Health has called for an additional 6,000 nurses to enter training. Beds and whole units lie empty because of a...

Counselling mentally handicapped people

06 November 1991

Nursing Standard

Clinical mental handicap

Traditional methods of counselling which concentrate on a person’s capacity for insight into problems and his or her ability to articulate these feelings may not be...

The history of advocacy in mental health

01 March 2000

Mental Health Practice

Advocacy

Mental health advocacy has a very long history, contrary to what some recent publications claim (MACA 1999). In 1620, a pamphlet titled The Petition of the Poor...

Culture clashes

01 February 1998

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

As usual in winter, we have recently been subjected to a spate of newspaper stories about elderly patients, many with mental health difficulties, staying in hospital...

Some boundaries we need to breach

01 July 1998

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

CAN you remember as far back as the Jay Report and the infamous Nursing Mirror campaign, ‘No way, Mrs Jay? Nurses and social workers seemed locked in opposition...

Willing and able

01 March 2000

Learning Disability Practice

Direct payments

Direct payments involve local authorities giving cash to people with learning disabilities to purchase their own services. The idea was imported from Canada and the...

Direct payments in mental health

01 July 1999

Mental Health Practice

Innovations

Canada pioneered giving cash to people with mental health problems to purchase their own services in the early 1980s (Brandon and Towe 1989, Brandon 1991)In this...

End of an era?

01 February 2002

Mental Health Practice

Obituaries

The year 2001 marked the end of an era, with the deaths of two very different, challenging voices in mental health. Last November, David Brandon, the social worker,...

Surveying europe

10 June 1998

Nursing Standard

Feature

THROUGH OUR CONTACTS around Europe we were aware of the differing attitudes and contrasting services available to people with mental health problems, especially...

Wounded healers speak out: Experiences of nurses with depression

01 February 2001

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Nurses with personal experiences of mental illness could play a key role in improving mental health provision. However, despite their invaluable insights, many such...

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