Discharged from Mental Hospitals

Bean, Philip; Mounser, Patricia

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-22383-1

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“…The massive shift in the locus of care for chronic patients that deinstitutionalisation initiatives brought widi them meant that between 1955 and the early 1990s the British mental hospital population dropped from 165,000 to approximately 43,000 (Bean & Mounser, 1993). Bachrach (1990) has noted that United States mental hospitals experienced an 80% drop in inpatient rates during that time (from 559,000 to 114,000).…”

Section: Outpatient Commitment and Policy Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Community treatment orders in Victoria: Emergent issues and anomalies

McDonnell

Bartholomew

1997

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

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Section: Outpatient Commitment and Policy Initiativesmentioning

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Community treatment orders in Victoria: Emergent issues and anomalies

McDonnell

Bartholomew

1997

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

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“…Accordingly, it is the control function that is to the fore as police officers are forced to take individuals either to police stations (as a place of safety under the Act), which are frequently inappropriate places in which to care for the mentally ill, or to mental hospitals where there is a tendency to detain such individuals and to prescribe the kinds of drugs that will lessen the florid or bizarre behaviour that first brought them to the attention of the police. In other words, since the control function is uppermost, section 136 is too often being wrongly used as a short term detention order rather than as a procedure to assess the mental state of those removed to a place of safety (Bean and Mounser, 1993;Bean et al, 1991). If one is to realise the potential for a more caring role then the police must be able to work in co-operation with the appropriate mental health agencies and professionals.…”

Section: Care and Controlmentioning

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Care and control: The future of British policing

Stephens

1994

Policing and Society

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The paper focuses on the interplay of care and control functions within the British police. There are several areas of police activity, such as child sexual abuse investigations, sexual assault, and the handling of the mentally ill, where there is already an operational mixture of care and control functions. Recently, the police have emphasised the service and care nature of their work. Indeed, there are good operational and ethical reasons to do so. However, the government's priority, expressed through such documents as the White Paper on police reform, the report of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, and the Sheehy Report, appears to be one of enhancing the police's control functions. An emphasis on a combination of care and control would, however, result in greater benefits than a focus predominantly on control alone. The paper highlights the obstacles that the police service must overcome to realise that combination.KEY WORDS: Police, care and control, service ethic, operational matrix of care and control.

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“…Between 1980 and 1986 the number of available psychiatric beds was reduced by 22%, from over 124000 to 97000 (Chew 1992). The mental-hospital population decreased more dramatically, from 165000 in 1955 to an estimated 43000 in the early 1990s (Bean & Mounser 1993). However, despite the increasing emphasis on care in the community and a climate in which 'decarceration', the process of decanting longterm patients from hospitals (Scull 1977), became a major feature in the debate about psychiatric treatment, the figures for total admissions over this period actually increased (Table 1).…”

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The rationing of psychiatric beds: changing trends in sex-ratios in admission to psychiatric hospital

Payne

2007

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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Admissions to psychiatric hospital for women have outnumbered those of men throughout most of this century. This paper presents data suggesting that recently there has been a shift in this overrepresentation. From the early 1980s there has been a downward trend in the extent to which women outnumber men in admissions to psychiatric in-patient treatment. This shift towards a greater representation of men in admission data has led to the position where, by 1986, in some age groups -particularly amongst young adults -men now outnumber women in admissions to psychiatric hospital. Possible explanations for this trend include a reduction in the availability of psychiatric beds together with an increasing emphasis on community care during the 1980s. Community care may be used more often in response to the treatment needs of women rather than men, or psychiatric beds may be seen as a scarce resource and more frequently reserved for men rather than for women. The paper explores changing patterns of both total admissions and first admissions from the 1960s. The rates of admission by sex and diagnostic group suggest possible explanations. In particular differences in the trend in admissions for each sex for schizophrenia require further analysis. The conclusion is that figures that indicate an increased tendency to hospitalize young men for psychotic illness in comparison with earlier years and in comparison with female risks of admission, may reflect changing patterns of disease, changes in patterns of treatment which are sexspecific, or more widespread changes in the lives of young men. However, the picture is complex and further research is needed.

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Discharged from Mental Hospitals

Cited by 29 publications

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Community treatment orders in Victoria: Emergent issues and anomalies

Community treatment orders in Victoria: Emergent issues and anomalies

Care and control: The future of British policing

The rationing of psychiatric beds: changing trends in sex-ratios in admission to psychiatric hospital

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