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A Prescription for PsychiatrySocial and Community Services in Local Authority Management

A Prescription for Psychiatry: Social and Community Services in Local Authority Management [The thrust of the arguments in this book culminates in a simple message. The psychological, emotional and behavioural problems that are commonly referred to as mental health problems are fundamentally social and psychological issues. Psychologists, therapists and social workers must work closely alongside GPs, public health physicians and nurses. But mental health and well-being is fundamentally a psycho-logical and social phenomenon, with medical aspects. It is not, fundamentally, a medical phenomenon with additional psychological and social elements. It follows that the correct place for mental health care is within the social care system. That doesn’t mean that we should design medical teams for psychiatry, and manage them out of hospital-based, NHS-based trusts but housed in a building away from the hospital site as a gesture towards being ‘community-based’. Instead, it means that we should locate the whole service in the community — put it entirely under local authority control. In the UK, we have the model of public health, recently transferred to local authority control, to build upon. Such services should be — and could then be — under democratic local governance.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Prescription for PsychiatrySocial and Community Services in Local Authority Management

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  • P. Bracken, P. Thomas, S. Timimi, E. Asen, G. Behr, C. Beuster, S. Bhunnoo, I. Browne, N. Chhina, D. Double, S. Downer, Christopher Evans, S. Fernando, M. Garland, W. Hopkins, R. Huws, Bob Johnson, B. Martindale, H. Middleton, D. Moldavsky, J. Moncrieff, S. Mullins, J. Nelki, M. Pizzo, J. Rodger, M. Smyth, D. Summerfield, J. Wallace, D. Yeomans (2012)

    Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm

    British Journal of Psychiatry, 201

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-137-40870-9
Pages
156 –174
DOI
10.1057/9781137408716_8
Publisher site
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Abstract

[The thrust of the arguments in this book culminates in a simple message. The psychological, emotional and behavioural problems that are commonly referred to as mental health problems are fundamentally social and psychological issues. Psychologists, therapists and social workers must work closely alongside GPs, public health physicians and nurses. But mental health and well-being is fundamentally a psycho-logical and social phenomenon, with medical aspects. It is not, fundamentally, a medical phenomenon with additional psychological and social elements. It follows that the correct place for mental health care is within the social care system. That doesn’t mean that we should design medical teams for psychiatry, and manage them out of hospital-based, NHS-based trusts but housed in a building away from the hospital site as a gesture towards being ‘community-based’. Instead, it means that we should locate the whole service in the community — put it entirely under local authority control. In the UK, we have the model of public health, recently transferred to local authority control, to build upon. Such services should be — and could then be — under democratic local governance.]

Published: Oct 24, 2015

Keywords: Mental Health; Mental Health Service; Mental Health Problem; Local Authority; Mental Health Care

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