1st Edition
Community Care People Leaving Long-Stay Hospitals
Part 1: The Context of Care in the Community 1. The Political Context of Care in the Community: A Review of the Work of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Social Services Renée Short 2. Community Care: An Historical Overview Geoff Shepherd 3. Safeguarding Quality Roger Blunden 4. Community Care: In Pursuit of Quality and Excellence Chris Heginbotham Part 2: Planning Services 5. Designing Services with People Who Are Elderly Derek Thomas, Viv Holt, Mike Illingworth, Nick Maddocks and Edna Robinson 6. Community Care Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: Avoiding Instituionalization in the Community Mark O’ Callaghan 7. Implications For Staff: How Far Can Retraining Go? Frances Brown 8. Similarities and Differences Between Client Groups: Values and Myths Ian MacDonald Part 3: Examples of Good Practice 9. Individual Services to People with Profound Mental Handicaps and Challenging Behaviour Jan Hill-Tout 10. Evaluating Community Services: Social Network Analysis Philip Seed 11. From Communities to Neighbourhoods: Evaluation Steve Baldwin 12. Evaluation of Community Services: A Local Example Annette Hames 13. Need in the Community: A District Model Geoff Shepherd 14. Quality in Residential Services for Adults with Severe or Profound Mental Handicap: Lessons from a Development Project David Felce 15. The Evaluation of the All-Wales Strategy for People with a Mental Handicap Gerry Evans, Stuart Todd and Stephen Beyer 16. Conclusions and Implications Sara Barna
Biography
Sheila Sharkey was Principal Clinical Psychologist, Northumberland Health Authority.
Sara Barna was Principal Clinical Psychologist, Bath Health Authority.
Original Review of Community Care:
‘It is still a useful source book and as such would be a worthwhile purchase for psychiatric libraries and for managerial bookshelves.’ A. C. Brown, British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 157, No. 5 (1990).
