Renée Aleong discusses her PhD research and explains why Black mental health matters
I am really pleased to introduce one of my PhD students, Renée Aleong, who writes here about her research. Renée is in the first year of her PhD exploring the compulsory detention of Black people
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The use of the Mental Health Act 1983 in England has increased considerably between 1984 and 2016. A new analysis of this trend has been published in the October edition of the British Journal of
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Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) were one of the most controversial amendments made to the Mental Health Act 1983. In 2008 England and Wales joined Scotland and around 70 different jurisdictions around the world in obliging people
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Stress amongst social workers is in the news again. Last week, Community Care reported the findings of their survey of over 1,000 social workers which found that 96% felt moderately or very stressed. The following
Continue ReadingThe International Centre for Mental Health Social Research is very pleased to welcome Dr Lisa Brophy from University of Melbourne / Mind Australia to give our next seminar on Friday 12th July. Community Treatment Orders
Continue ReadingThe findings of the OCTET trial of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) were published online in The Lancet today. The paper reported that outcomes of people on CTOs were no different from those on s.17 leave.
Continue ReadingAs social workers, we possibly make too many assumptions about what nurses think about taking on the AMHP role. Well, thanks to a thoughtful paper by Michael Coffey (Swansea University) and Ben Hannigan (Cardiff University) just published online in
Continue ReadingAnn Hiller is an experienced AMHP in Kent. She completed the MSc in Mental Health Social Work with Children & Adults at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, in 2011. For her dissertation she
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