Mental Handicap and Community Care: A Study of Mentally Handicapped People in Sheffield. Michael Bayley

1974 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-459
Author(s):  
Robin Huws Jones
Keyword(s):  
Community Care ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
Handicapped People

scholarly journals Educational Programmes for General Practitioners and Clinical Assistants in the Mental Handicap Service

1984 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 154-155
Author(s):  
Joan Bicknell
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
The Family ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Handicapped People ◽  
Family Home

The current trend towards community care for mentally handicapped people means that general practitioners have greater opportunities to meet mentally and multiply handicapped people living in the family home or in small units in the community. In addition, an increasing number of large long-stay mental handicap hospitals have delegated the reponsibility for primary care to local GPs, frequently employed as clinical assistants for this purpose. This is having the welcome effect of allowing the psychiatrist and the trainee in psychiatry to follow their particular interests and develop their own treatment skills.

scholarly journals Generic services for people with a mental handicap

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 212-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary E. Nolan ◽  
G. Radakrishnan ◽  
John Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Behavioural Disorders ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Comprehensive Service ◽  
Handicapped People

There has been much discussion on the most suitable services for mentally handicapped people with special needs such as additional mental illness or marked behavioural disorders. A number of policy documents have advocated the use of generic services as a matter of course, such as the All Wales Strategy (1983), while others have acknowledged a possible need for specialist input when such services are used e.g. Needs and Responses (Department of Health, 1989). In 1986 the Royal College of Psychiatrists stated that the psychiatric needs of this group required a specialised service and suggested that ideally this would be integrated with other psychiatric specialities as part of a comprehensive service.

Psychopathology of People with Mental Handicap and Epilepsy II: Psychiatric Illness

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (6) ◽  
pp. 826-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Deb ◽  
David Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Initial Screening ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Matched Group ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
Handicapped People

The prevalence of psychiatric illness was studied in 150 epileptic mentally handicapped people (both hospital in-patients and living in the community) and a matched group of 150 non-epileptic controls. The Profile of Abilities and Adjustment (PAA) scale was used for the initial screening of psychiatric illness. Mildly to moderately handicapped individuals who had good communication skills and scored positively on the PAA schedule for psychiatric illness were interviewed using the PSE interview schedule. Severely mentally handicapped individuals who scored positively on the PAA's psychiatric illness subscale were observed and information was gathered from their medical notes and carers. A psychiatric diagnosis was made using DSM–III–R criteria. The non-epileptic group showed significantly more psychiatric illness than the epileptic group. Psychiatric illness was diagnosed in 25% of the cohort.

Providing a community mental handicap service

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 20-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Hall ◽  
L. F. Pieri
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Consumer Satisfaction ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Medical Audit ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Mental Handicap

It is acknowledged that assessing ‘consumer satisfaction’ is an important part of medical audit (The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991). For the mentally handicapped, it can be argued that ‘carer satisfaction’ is particularly relevant. This is particularly so at a time when the ‘community’ is being advocated as the preferred setting for the long-term care of the mentally handicapped, the families and neighbours of the handicapped being the main providers of this ‘community care’ (Griffiths, 1988).

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