This paper is about the service needs of people who have mental health problems and who exhibit persistently anti-social behaviour of a kind likely to result in their appearance before a criminal court. In this document these people have been termed `lost souls'.
This document is a sequel to the `King's Fund Survey of Industrial Therapy in Psychiatric Hospitals'. It supplements the previous report by describing some of the characteristics of patients attending the industrial units. This information was obtained from a census of those at work in the units during one week ...
This report is the first result of a study concerned with the organisation and effectiveness of industrial therapy in psychiatric hospitals. It reflects the significant changes in the traditional views first, of the psychiatric patient and his relation to the community, and second, of the hospital itself as a social ...
This resource list contains information on selected books, journal articles, films, tapes and exercises which may be useful in training staff or volunteers who are working with `confused', `mentally infirm' or `mentally ill' elderly people. It does not set out to provide a blue print for a programme of training ...