Mental Health Policy in Britain
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780333947920
Subjects: Central government policies; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Psychology; Sociology; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; General; Mental Illness; Political Science / Social Services & Welfare; Mental Health; Sociology - General; Great Britain; History; Mental health policy; Mental health services
Description: "The second edition of this text offers a critical and contemporary analysis of mental health policy, tracing its relocation from the asylum system to the community as well as assessing policy developments since the Labour government came into power in 1997. It analyses why the cultural legacy of segregation has remained so potent in modern thinking despite the abandonment of the old Victorian 'mad houses'.

And it identifies the processes and causes of recent policy shifts, engaging with current debates about quality of life, adequacy of resources, the rights of patients and their relatives, community care and community safety." "Immensely readable and fully up to date, this new edition will, like its predecessor, be essential reading for students of nursing, social work and social policy and for practitioners as well as policy makers."--BOOK JACKET.