The conference was asked to confine its attention to three groups of people who might need asylum: adults with persistent major mental health problems including those problems specific to age and dementia; those with mental health problems and behavioural problems; people with aggressive or challenging behaviour. Having listened to evidence ...
The law relating to the Court of Protection is complicated and there are few useful books and articles about it that are readily available. Also the Court is changing. It was decided to invite a number of people to produce, brief, clear outlines of the law on a number of ...
Representation before Mental Health Review Tribunals has been the most problematic area in the relationship between the hospital and the Project. This paper is the result of a wish to examine the problems caused by representation at MHRTs by Project workers. the paper is in three parts: the mental health ...
Those who have been suffering from mental health problems present particularly difficult problems with re-integration into the community. This project paper examines a scheme for volunteer support for discharged psychiatric patients. With the help of a grant from Oxford R.H.A. a befriending scheme was set up and this report describes ...
The conference aimed to bring together practitioners in housing, social services and psychiatry; to explore the links and gaps, the successes and the failings; and to point out some signposts for future development of service to meet needs. In particular, the conference explored three themes: 1) the varying definitions of ...