This study demonstrates the crucial process of hospital closure, both in terms of the outcome of such a closure and the provision for future services in the community. Throughout the text future services are defined and planned as part of the resettlement component. Restructuring our mental health systems affects all of us and this book focuses on service users, workers and planners. The authors are of diverse backgrounds in anthropology, psychology, sociology and social work, reflecting the important differences in the knowledge required for a better understanding of hospital closure. A...
This study demonstrates the crucial process of hospital closure, both in terms of the outcome of such a closure and the provision for future services ...
An innovative, multi-perspective and international approach to the issues which normalisation entails. Carrying on from the concept of community care, normalisation or integration is about creating the conditions in the individual and society for leading as autonomous and acceptable a life as possible. Based on the right of people with disabilities to an ordinary life, it has extensive implications not just for professionals in the mental health field but for all of us.
An innovative, multi-perspective and international approach to the issues which normalisation entails. Carrying on from the concept of community care,...
