In-patient Mental Health Care from the Asylum System to the Present Day

ISBN-13: 9781032592893 / Twarda / 2024 / 120 str.

UK) Colley Andrew (University of East London

Opis

With a focus on the progression and dismantlement of the Asylum system, this book examines key issues around the policy and practice of in-patient mental health provision in the UK, making comparisons with similar services in other parts of the world.

Spis treści

Prologue:            Into the Cage.                  

Chapter 1:          Psychiatric Hospitals in the 19^th and 20^th century.

Chapter 2:          Anti-psychiatry: the impact of Laing, Szasz and others.

Chapter 3:          The last years of the asylums: return to Netherne Hospital.

Chapter 4:          Exclusion or inclusion: out of the hospitals and into the community.

Chapter 5:          In-patient provision in the 21st century: a ward in a house at a provision within a service, near a hospital.

Chapter 6:          The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Chapter 7:          From Asylums to Care in the Community: what did we gain and what did we lose?

Chapter 8:          Addressing stigma and building a better future for in-patient mental health care.

Epilogue:             Out of the Cage.

O autorze

Andrew Colley is former Senior Lecturer in Special Education, University of East London, UK.