Mental Illness: The Fundamental Facts. A Mental Health Foundation Report, 1990. The Mental Health Foundation, 8 Hallam Street, London W1N 6DH

This chapter examines health promotion campaigns and policies designed to raise the profile of mental health, and more specifically to help those suffering from mental illness. It begins with an overview of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and personality disorders. It then considers the NHS policy on mental health; the mental health promotion strategies in the UK, including the Scottish Health Survey of 2016, the All Wales Mental Health Promotion Network, and the Mental Health Foundation report in Northern Ireland; the implications of the coexistence of physical and mental illness for policy makers and practitioners; and mental health charities such as Anxiety UK, Centre for Mental Health, Rethink Mental Illness, SANE and Time to Change. The chapter also discusses various mental health promotion strategies throughout the UK, locations for mental health promotion, and economic evaluations of mental health promotion.

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Mental Hospitals and the Carceral State

From Asylum to Prison ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640631.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 20-43

Author(s):

Anne E. Parsons

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Concentration Camp ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Mental Hospitals ◽

Conscientious Objectors ◽

People With Mental Illness ◽

Mental Health Reforms ◽

National Mental Health ◽

Mental Health Foundation

This chapter explores how in the 1940s, mental hospitals comprised land, buildings, and workforces used by the states to feed and house hundreds of thousands of people. Conscientious objectors who did service work at mental hospitals in lieu of military conscription founded the National Mental Health Foundation. They also collaborated with journalists to craft exposés about concentration camp–like conditions in hospitals. The author and former patient Mary Jane Ward published her book The Snake Pit, in which she argued against the loss of freedom that people with mental illness experienced. Policy makers responded to this anti-institutionalism by implementing mental health reforms that made hospitals larger and more therapeutic, and kept involuntary commitments intact. These initiatives made up the early stages of deinstitutionalization.

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Plans, hopes and ideas for mental health

BJPsych Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.bp.116-053793 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 3-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John R. Ashton

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Health Services ◽

Public Mental Health ◽

Well Being ◽

The Subject ◽

The Individual ◽

Mental Health Foundation ◽

Mental Well Being

SummaryMental health and the failings of the mental health services are in the spotlight as never before. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the often dire situation with regard to child and adolescent mental health. At the same time, there is a renewed interest in the scope for prevention of mental illness and distress, and in population approaches to mental well-being. It may come as a surprise to some that others have given such serious consideration to strategic approaches to public mental health as long ago as the 1950s. It appears that such consideration was squeezed out by the dominant concerns of serious and enduring mental illness and a prevailing biological view of psychiatry. The time is right to engage with this agenda in recognition of the importance of public mental health, not only for the individual and for families, but also for society as a whole and for the economy. The publication of a review of the subject by the Faculty of Public Health and the Mental Health Foundation is to be commended. Let us make sure it leads to action.

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Describing mental health services: the development of a mental health census in the North-West of England

Epidemiologia e psichiatria sociale Monograph Supplement ◽

10.1017/s1827433100000848 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 6 (S1) ◽

pp. 71-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter Huxley

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Severe Mental Illness ◽

National Policy ◽

Variable Number ◽

North West ◽

The North ◽

Department Of Health ◽

The Individual ◽

Mental Health Foundation

In the United Kingdom, national policy and local service provision both direct provision towards people with a severe mental illness (NHS and Community Care Act, 1990; Department of Health, 1993, 1994). An independent report by the Mental Health Foundation (1994), a leading mental health charity, recommended that the Department of Health “promulgates a practical definition of severe mental illness (SMI) in order to concentrate attention and services on those in greatest need”.In order to assess the extent to which a provider or a purchaser has focused attention upon the SMI, definitions are being developed in most services in the UK; this will facilitate the quantification of the number and proportion of SMI in contact with services. The definitional approach uses a (variable) number of criteria to determine status as a severely mentally ill person. It is essentially categorical because the individual is placed in one of two categories, SMI or not-SMI.

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A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1017/s1073110500004058 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 274-275

Author(s):

O. Lawrence ◽

J.D. Gostin

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Mental Illness ◽

United Nations ◽

Mental Health Care ◽

Harvard University ◽

Legal Medicine ◽

General Assembly ◽

International Institute ◽

University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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