Asylums, Mental Health Care and the Irish

Asylums, Mental Health Care and the Irish
Author: Pauline M. Prior
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-02-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1911024620

This book is a collection of studies on mental health services in Ireland from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. Essays cover overall trends in patient numbers, an exploration of the development of mental health law in Ireland, and studies on individual hospitals – all of which provide incredible insight into times past and yet speak volumes about mental health in contemporary Irish society. Topics include the famous nursing strike at Monaghan Asylum in 1919, when a red flag was raised over the building; extracts from Speedwell, a hospital newsletter, showing the social and sporting life at Holywell Hospital during the 1960s; an exploration of diseases such as beriberi and tuberculosis at Dundrum and the Richmond in the 1890s; the problems encountered by doctors in Ballinasloe Asylum as they tried to exert their authority over the Governors; and the experiences of Irish emigrants who found themselves in asylums in Australia and New Zealand. The book also includes a discussion of mental health services in Ireland 1959–2010, the first time such a chronology has been published. The editor, Pauline Prior, and the contributors, including Brendan Kelly, Dermot Walsh, Elizabeth Malcolm and E.M. Crawford, are well-known scholars within the disciplines of medicine, sociology and history, coming together for the first time to present an essential book on the history of mental health services in Ireland.

Business Solutions for Budget Managers in Health and Personal Social Services

Business Solutions for Budget Managers in Health and Personal Social Services
Author: William S. Bryans
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000111539

Managers responsible for spending public money in health and social welfare are facing unprecedented pressures to deliver better services against a background of fierce competition for resources, profound organizational change and the creation of internal market places. In this practically-directed book, William Bryans explains how business principles can be applied in the public service context to enable managers to meet this challenge. The author demonstrates how it is possible to create a surplus for service development by effective strategic management of external and internal financial environments, operational management of workloads and resources, and tactical intervention to limit budget fluctuations to tolerable levels. Each chapter includes a purpose statement, an outline of relevant theory and practice, a keypoint summary and a case study based on real world situations.

Mental Health Social Work in Ireland

Mental Health Social Work in Ireland
Author: Jim Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429779577

First published in 1998, this pioneering text examines how social, political and organisational changes in Ireland have shaped mental health social work practice in the late twentieth century. The co-editors have gathered together a range of contributors who provide knowledge and expertise in a variety of disciplines and practice settings which helps reveal the complex relationship between mental health social work, the citizen and the state in Ireland, North and South. The volume includes chapters on a range of current issues facing mental health social workers and practitioners drawing on various sources in Ireland, Europe and North America. These include psychiatric social work practice, mental health policy, mental health social work and the law, community care policies, addictions work, and work with older people.

Managing Ambiguity and Change

Managing Ambiguity and Change
Author: S. Dopson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1997-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230375146

This book uses the case of the National Health Service to examine the management of ambiguity and change. Studies of the implementation of the Griffiths Report have identified a number of unintended consequences, but it is argued that they have not adequately theorised these outcomes in the policy implementation process. It is suggested that the process-sociological approach of Elias, and in particular his game models, enable us to better understand the complex interweaving of planned and unplanned processes which is involved in the management of change.

A National Health Service?

A National Health Service?
Author: John Mohan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 307
Release: 1995-03-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 134923897X

This book contrasts the proposals of the Royal Commission of the late 1970s with the very different set of priorities enshrined in the 1989 White Paper and describes how the changes between the two documents came about. It argues that the NHS reforms should be seen not as the inevitable product of technical developments nor as a consensus response to narrowly managerial difficulties within the NHS, but rather as part of a wider political strategy towards state provision of welfare. The book strongly emphasises the uneven geographical impacts of post-1979 changes, a topic usually underplayed by analysts of social policy, and draws heavily on previously unpublished material.

Planning in Health Promotion Work

Planning in Health Promotion Work
Author: Roar Amdam
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1136906711

Drawing on theoretical and empirical evidence from local, regional and international planning and public health, Amdam develops a new model for health promotion: empowerment planning. This combines top-down and bottom-up approaches to enable people to take more responsibility for their own health and for individual and collective capacity building.

Developing Good Practice in Community Care

Developing Good Practice in Community Care
Author: John Harris
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2001-08-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1846422930

Annotation Seven contributions from British social workers and related professionals discuss issues in community care in light of the changes brought about by the National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990. A sampling of topics includes improving the quality of written assessments, empowerment as a participative process, guardianship of mentally ill patients, and developing services for minority communities. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. c. Book News Inc