Facilities for mental treatment, past and present

1939 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 193-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Pilkington
Keyword(s):  
Mental Treatment

scholarly journals Mental Health Act reform

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 578-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Turner ◽  
Mark Salter ◽  
Martin Deahl
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Consent To Treatment ◽  
Mental Treatment ◽  
Health Legislation

Psychiatrists have been complaining about mental health legislation for over a century (Smith, 1891), usually in terms of the delays engendered, paperwork and bureaucracy, and the impositions on clinical practice. As a result they have gained more powers, and perhaps much-needed status within the medical profession, to the concern of some commentators (e.g. Fennell, 1996). Thus, the ‘triumph of legalism’ (Jones, 1993) of the Lunacy Act 1890 was modified by the Mental Treatment Act 1930, whereby outpatients and voluntary patients were encouraged and ‘asylums' became ‘mental hospitals'. Then came the radical change of the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1959, making compulsory detention an essentially medical decision and removing the routine of the courts, but retaining a theme of requiring ‘treatment in hospital’. The Mental Health Act 1983, however, was a touch anti-medical, since it strengthened the role of the approved social worker (ASW) and enhanced the importance of a patient's consent to treatment. “The primacy of the medical model and the paramountcy of the psychiatrist are certainly subject to greater limitations and external review”, was the opinion of William Bingley, then Mind's Legal Director, now Chief Executive of the Mental Health Act Commission – reviewing the Act in its early days (Bingley, 1985).

MENTAL TREATMENT ACT, 1930.

The Lancet ◽  
1931 ◽  
Vol 217 (5615) ◽  
pp. 834
Author(s):  
JohnP. Steel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Treatment

scholarly journals Systematic review on the use and description of measures to evaluate psychotherapeutic interventions with children and adolescents in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 342-351
Author(s):  
Bruna Holst ◽  
Carolina Saraiva de Macedo Lisboa ◽  
Andréia Zambon Braga ◽  
Artur Marques Strey ◽  
Déborah Brandão de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Adolescent Psychotherapy ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychotherapy ◽  
Reliability Method ◽  
Mental Treatment

Abstract Introduction: Psychotherapeutic interventions in childhood and adolescence are recognized as a mental treatment and as a tool to reduce psychological disorders in youth and adulthood. Therefore, there is an increasing concern about evidence of effectiveness of mental disorder interventions and adequacy of measurement. The objectives of this systematic review were to investigate predominant research designs and instruments used in Brazilian studies describing psychotherapeutic interventions with children and adolescents and to examine how these instruments are described regarding evidence of validity and reliability. Method: Five databases were surveyed, and for each one two independent judges performed the selection of records and applied the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: The final database comprised 28 papers, in which 92 instruments were referred. Fifty-seven instruments cited did not have descriptions of evidence of validity for the Brazilian population; for 31 instruments, validity evidence was mentioned, but the study did not detail which validity parameter was used; three studies described content validity evidence for their instruments. Furthermore, information about reliability was described for only two instruments. Conclusion: A lack of studies in the field of child and adolescent psychotherapy was found in Brazil. There is a significant need for the field to attend both the psychometric properties and the quality of description of research instruments. The scientific production of studies focused on the evaluation of psychotherapeutic interventions may promote evidence-based psychotherapy and justify the offer of mental treatment in different contexts.

The Mental Treatment Bill, 1923

1923 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-214
Author(s):  
A. H. Trevor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Treatment

A New Pattern in Day Hospital Development the West Middlesex Day Hospital

1963 ◽  
Vol 109 (458) ◽  
pp. 29-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brice Pitt ◽  
Morris Markowe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Day Hospital ◽  
New Era ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Hospital Boards ◽  
Hospital Development ◽  
Mental Treatment ◽  
Local Health Authorities

Slowly but surely the emphasis of the mental health service is moving from the mental hospital into the community which it serves. The trend of these community developments can be seen as far back as the establishment of psychiatric out-patient clinics at general hospitals under the Mental Treatment Act, 1930, together with arrangements for after care, and continued by mental hospitals and regional hospital boards since the advent of the National Health Service. While the new era in British psychiatry awaits the implementation by local health authorities of their mandatory functions under the Mental Health Act, 1959, much can still be done within the hospital services proper to shift the emphasis into the community. One such method is described in this study of a Day Hospital developed within a large general hospital.

Addiction Under the Mental Treatment Act, Eire, 1945

1949 ◽  
Vol 95 (400) ◽  
pp. 693-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Eustace
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
Mental Treatment

Many writers on the subject of the treatment of addictions have suggested that for treatment to be efficacious, a period of detention legally enforced is necessary, and it is perhaps strange that a country which tends to regard personal failings and idiosyncrasies with a kindly eye has been probably the first to provide a method of enforcing it without recourse to a legal sentence.

scholarly journals The ‘physical-mental’ treatment of cardiovascular disease co-morbid with mental disorders

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Yanping Ren ◽  
Hui Yang ◽  
Colette Browning ◽  
Shane Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Treatment
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