There have been major changes to mental health services internationally in recent years revolving around the concept of care in the community. Although speed of change and precise service mechanisms differ among countries, there is nevertheless an increasingly widespread consensus on key components essential to adequate care provision. This in turn provides an opportunity to develop a widely acceptable model framework to direct future developments. This book proposes a simple model that can be used as a guide to increased clinical effectiveness through focused evidence-based reform. Using a...

Few international issues have aroused as much passionate interest and political activity among Canadians. The contest on "the domestic battleground" has been decisive in determining Canada's policies in the Middle East. The Domestic Battleground provides the history and background needed to understand Canadian attitudes toward both the explosive unrest occurring in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the participants in the conflict - Israel, the Palestinians, and the rest of the Arab world. Taras and Goldberg analyse the struggles over the levers of decision making in Ottawa and the battle...

Aims to provide a reasonably comprehensive account of the law and policy of the European Community in the media or audiovisual fields. The text also briefly describes the various support measures developed for the media industries in order to provide a context for the regulatory actions described.

Celebrating Cork's "golden couple": a brilliant lawyer and an enthusiastic and untiring fundraiser & organiser. From Lithuania to Limerick, and then to Cork. Legal eminence (President of the Law Society) and political heights (Lord Mayor of Cork); Cork Orchestral Society, Meals on Wheels, Lavanagh House, ABODE; music, books, art; love & laughter.