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The Social Psychology of Stigma

01 June 2001

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

People who experience mental health problems are increasingly saying that the discrimination they experience as a consequence of their difficulties can limit their...

Housing and Social Exclusion

01 April 1999

Mental Health Practice

Diary

Housing, along with work and money, is a critical aspect of social inclusion, and people with more serious mental health problems are far more likely to be homeless,...

Social exclusion and mental health problems

01 May 1998

Mental Health Practice

News feature

The government is giving due priority to the issue of social exclusion. The topic is the specific focus of a broadly- based parliamentary group, and is one of the...

Personality disorder

01 May 1998

Mental Health Practice

Letter

Dear Editor I read with interest the article in last month's issue, 'The treatment of people with a personality disorder in primary care settings', (Mental Health...

The Burden of Sympathy: How families cope with mental illness

01 March 2003

Mental Health Practice

Book review

The focus of our work as mental health practitioners is generally the identified ‘patient’. Although family and friends (usually referred to as ‘carers’) may be...

Mental health services: choice or control?

01 July 1998

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Many commentators have described the contradictory roles mental health services play in society (Jones 1972, Foucault 1967). Different interest groups have always...

Meeting the needs of neglected patients

05 October 1994

Nursing Standard

Clinical mental health

This article discusses part of a study of a large, well- resourced community care service. The study looked at why people with serious, ongoing mental health...

Taking women’s mental health seriously

01 November 1998

Mental Health Practice

Clinical

Over the past three decades women’s mental health problems have come under increasing scrutiny. A 1994 Department of Health report referred to ‘considerable...

Mental health nursing and social inclusion

01 February 2001

Mental Health Practice

CPD

Discrimination against people with mental health problems gives rise to social exclusion. A vicious cycle is established which prevents people from developing their...