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| Wednesday 6 December 2006 |
Scare in the community
Alarming-sounding reports on homicides by mental patients are being used by the UK government to justify draconian new laws.
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| Wednesday 4 October 2006 |
Why mental healthcare is a mess
It is the authorities' own ever-widening definition of what it means to be mentally ill that is straining resources.
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| Monday 26 June 2006 |
A taste of their own medicine?
Don’t rejoice in the irony that social workers are now having their private lives interrogated by an unaccountable body – it’s an ominous sign of the times.
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| Tuesday 28 March 2006 |
Mental Health Bill: a U-turn for the worse
There is little to celebrate in New Labour's change of mind.
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| Wednesday 30 November 2005 |
‘One-in-10 kids are mentally ill’? That’s madness
Can you spot the three with disorders in your kid's nursery?
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| Thursday 25 August 2005 |
The legacy of ‘radical social work’
How contemporary social work theory nurtured the new authoritarianism.
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| Wednesday 29 December 2004 |
Government incapacity on mental health
Why the introduction of the Mental Capacity Bill has been such a mad affair.
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| Friday 17 September 2004 |
Mental until proven innocent
The UK government is planning the introduction of indefinite detention on a psychiatrist's say-so.
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| Wednesday 23 June 2004 |
Smiley unhappy people
A new guide for university staff promotes yellow badges and tea parties as an antidote to work stress.
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| Wednesday 18 February 2004 |
PC or not PC?
Rumours of a backlash against political correctness in social work have been greatly exaggerated.
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| Tuesday 29 April 2003 |
Registering distrust
It will take more than checklists and codes to restore public confidence in social workers.
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| Friday 2 August 2002 |
Mental healthcare in the balance
The UK Mental Health Bill captures society's shift from rehabilitating the mentally ill towards helping them just to 'survive'.
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| Thursday 29 November 2001 |
Stressing vulnerability
A senior lecturer in social work wonders who gains from the preoccupation with workplace stress.
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| Tuesday 14 August 2001 |
A mad approach to mental illness
The UK government's focus on public safety in the mental health debate will do nothing for the mentally ill - or for public safety.
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