Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Mental health and adult protection

Mental health and adult protection Useful websites The Department of Health’s website includes an ‘easy read version’ of the leaflet explaining the draft Mental Health Bill prepared for people with learning difficulties. This is available at: www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/ PublicationsLegislation/PublicationsLegislationArticle/fs/e n?CONTENT_ID=4088907&chk=mo1hDq. This email address would challenge even the most able typist, however, the document is also available, along with other explanatory papers, via www.dh.gov.uk by following the ‘Publications’ links. It’s a huge website that is not easy to navigate. A valuable resource (and a well-designed website) for the friends, relatives and carers of people requiring mental health care, and for service users themselves, is provided by www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk. The site explains the meanings of the main diagnoses, and has carers’ own stories in relation to (for example) schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism and eating disorders. Set up by mental health charity Rethink, the Institute of Psychiatry and the Maudsley Trust, it also has links to user/carer research. A particularly novel and valuable feature is an ‘ask the pharmacist’ facility. It is stressed that this is for use in non-urgent cases. It gives carers and patients the opportunity to ask questions about their medication from a relatively objective source, and previous answers are available for visitors to the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Adult Protection Pier Professional

Mental health and adult protection

The Journal of Adult Protection , Volume 7 (4) – Dec 1, 2005

Loading next page...
 
/lp/pier-professional/mental-health-and-adult-protection-W9dXDgxleu

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Pier Professional
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by Pier Professional Limited
ISSN
1466-8203
eISSN
2042-8669
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Useful websites The Department of Health’s website includes an ‘easy read version’ of the leaflet explaining the draft Mental Health Bill prepared for people with learning difficulties. This is available at: www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/ PublicationsLegislation/PublicationsLegislationArticle/fs/e n?CONTENT_ID=4088907&chk=mo1hDq. This email address would challenge even the most able typist, however, the document is also available, along with other explanatory papers, via www.dh.gov.uk by following the ‘Publications’ links. It’s a huge website that is not easy to navigate. A valuable resource (and a well-designed website) for the friends, relatives and carers of people requiring mental health care, and for service users themselves, is provided by www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk. The site explains the meanings of the main diagnoses, and has carers’ own stories in relation to (for example) schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism and eating disorders. Set up by mental health charity Rethink, the Institute of Psychiatry and the Maudsley Trust, it also has links to user/carer research. A particularly novel and valuable feature is an ‘ask the pharmacist’ facility. It is stressed that this is for use in non-urgent cases. It gives carers and patients the opportunity to ask questions about their medication from a relatively objective source, and previous answers are available for visitors to the

Journal

The Journal of Adult ProtectionPier Professional

Published: Dec 1, 2005

There are no references for this article.