Community Based Treatment and Rehabilitation Facilities for the Mentally Ill — Their Efficiency and Prophylactic Effectiveness

1985 ◽  
pp. 629-633
Author(s):  
Fritz Reimer ◽  
Dirk Lorenzen
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Rehabilitation Facilities

Community-based care for the mentally ill: Simple justice.

1990 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 1238-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward M. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Based

Deinstitutionalization and Increased Arrest Rates among the Mentally Disordered

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Pogrebin ◽  
Eric D. Poole
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Arrest Rates ◽  
Mental Patients ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Police Decision Making ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Criminal Histories ◽  
Mental Health Programs

Policies of deinstitutionalization, together with a general tightening of civil commitment laws and inadequate funding for community-based programs, have resulted in an increase of mentally ill people on the streets. Growing numbers of former mental patients and individuals whose bizarre behavior might have landed them in a state hospital bed a few years ago are now being arrested and ending up in jail. Four key areas––deinstitutionalization, police decision making, decline of mental health programs, and criminal histories of mental patients—are examined with respect to the shifting of mentally disordered persons from the mental health system to the criminal justice system.

Is There a Role for Music Therapy in the Care of the Severely Mentally Ill?

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 442-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Grocke ◽  
Sidney Bloch ◽  
David Castle
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Recovery Model ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill

Objective: The role of music therapy in psychiatric care in Australia is briefly traced from the early 1990s to the present. With the shift to community-based care, contemporary music therapy practice for the severely mentally ill is reappraised alongside the principles of the recovery model. Conclusions: Music therapy is a viable option within the creative arts therapies for enhancing quality of life in people with severe and enduring mental illness.

A Causal Model of Attitudes toward Mental Health Facilities

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
G B Hall ◽  
S M Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Causal Model ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
Community Mental Health Care ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mental Health Facilities ◽  
Perceived Impacts ◽  
Community Facilities

Nonuser responses to community facilities are recognised as among the most important factors determining the success or failure of community-based systems of service delivery. A causal model of individual attitudes to community mental health care is defined and tested with survey data collected in Toronto, Ontario. The results from a path analysis show the strong antecedent influence of attitudes toward facility users and of perceived impacts of facilities on facility desirability. The importance of personal nonattitudinal characteristics on reactions to facilities is also revealed. The implications of familiarity with mental illness and of attitudes toward the mentally ill for the acceptance of community mental health facilities are considered.

Making a reality of user involvement in community mental health services

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamaldeep Bhui ◽  
Anne Aubin ◽  
Geraldine Strathdee
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Service Management ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Rehabilitation Service ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Everyday Clinical Practice ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Based Rehabilitation

User centred services as an ideology have not become a reality of everyday clinical practice. In this paper we introduce a series of articles which describe user centred practice in a south London community-based rehabilitation service for the severely mentally ill. We emphasise the medical consultation style adopted, the service management style and specific initiatives allowing users to influence our practice and shape functional and structural components of the service.

The Community's Tolerance of the Mentally Ill

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian F. Brockington ◽  
Peter Hall ◽  
Jenny Levings ◽  
Christopher Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Main Components

A survey of attitudes to mental illness was conducted in a quota sample of about 2000 subjects in Malvern and Bromsgrove. Factor analysis showed three main components – benevolence, authoritarianism, and fear of the mentally ill. Residents of Bromsgrove, which is served by a traditional mental hospital, were slightly more tolerant than those living in Malvern, which has a community-based service, and has seen the closure of two mental hospitals in its vicinity during the last 10 years. The main demographic determinants of tolerance are age, education, occupation, and acquaintance with the mentally ill.

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