This pack of papers has been built upon the plenary and group presentations made at a conference held in March 1983 entitled 'The Development of Comprehensive District Psychiatric Services' together with papers from the September Workshop on 'Planning Local Psychiatric Services.' The aim has been not to produce a standard ...
This account of recent developments in community based services for mentally handicapped people in this country derives from a study of available literature, focussing particularly on that published between 1975-1981. The main part of the report describes the kind of schemes and projects that have been developed to meet the ...
This discussion paper reports a study of the ways in which short-term residential care services for mentally handicapped children are being developed by different agencies and in different parts of England. The idea behind such provision is to provide families with a break from a child who may be causing ...
These notes explore how people in the health and welfare services are tackling the problems of developing comprehensive mental health services, in situations where these services are currently based on large institutions serving two or more health districts. Attention has been focussed on the question of how the psychiatric services ...