This column describes the current state of resources and practice in mental health care in the Anglophone countries of West Africa: the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia. Information was systematically gathered from the five countrie...
Mental Health Act - Reformdoi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7221.1322LegalApproachMentalHealthTherapiesRadcliffe M.R ThayaParanBMJ
The growing strength of advocates for mental health reform, called the mental hygiene movement, and passage of the National Mental Health Act in 1946 in the USA instigated new directions in mental health care. The UK Mental Health Act of 1959 encouraged a rapid reduction in mental hospital beds...
Reform of the Mental Health Act 1983: Summary of consultation responses The consultation period ended on 31 March 2000. Over 1000 individuals, local statutory and other organisations, and national bodies in England and Wales ma... DO Health - Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, ...
Cures Act brings mental health reform, but much more needed for children and adolescentsLast month, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, which represents major progress into mental health reform. Along with major changes to this country''s mental health system, the legislation ...
Reform of the Mental Health Act 1983. An effective tribunal system More than 100 years after Freud's original endorsement of the drug, the use of cocaine is a problem for both users and for society, which struggles to orga... J Wood - 《Br J Psychiatry》...
Current appeal system for those detained in England and Wales under the Mental Health Act needs reform. The approach to managing the involuntary detention of people suffering from psychiatric conditions can be divided into those with clinicians at the forefro... Paul,Gosney,Lomax,... - 《Journal...
The authority of international obligations can pave the way for genuine mental health reform, a process that has thus far proved difficult. The CRPD was intended to be a shining light of social transformation, aimed at removing barriers that exclude people with disabilities from the benefits of ci...
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are a critical source of care for medically underserved populations and often serve as medical homes for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). Many FQHCs provide mental health services and could facilit
In order to contribute to and participate in the national mental health reform agenda, paramedics must be provided with comprehensive education and training opportunities with particular focus on judgment and classification, and management of mental disorders within appropriate professional practice, policy,...