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Mental health in Ireland : policy, practice & law /

Mental health in Ireland : policy, practice & law / - Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2014. - xvi, 298 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Foreword / Contributor profiles -- Section 1 : context for mental health service delivery in 21st century Ireland. 1 : introduction : stuggle and contestation in the field of mental health / Section 2 : emerging developments in response to mental distress. 5 : recovery and the recovery ethos : challenges and possibilites / Scetion 3 : emerging issues and implications for the future. 12 : current trends in the economics of mental health care in Ireland / Index. Eddie Molloy -- Ivor Browne -- Shari McDaid and Agnes Higgins. 2 : mental hospital institutionalisation and deinstitutionalism in Ireland / Damien Brennan. 3 : medicalisation and professionalisation of mental health service delivery / Líam Mac Gabhann. 4 : shadow lives : social exclusion and discrimination in the mental health context / Shari McDaid -- Agnes Higgins and Paddy McGowan. 6 : empowerment and the emergence of an Irish user [or] survivor movement / Liz Brosnan. 7 : peer support and mutual help as a means to recovery / Mike Watts. 8 : the paradoxical role of families in mental health / Shari McDaid and Agnes Higgins. 9 : mental health needs of minority thnic communities in Ireland : contexts and controverseries / Rebecca Murphy and Gerry Leavey. 10 : 'a state of smei-lunacy'? the marginal status of drinkng problems within the Irish mental health system / Shane Butler. 11 : the interface bewteen mental health and the criminal justice system : legal and policy perspectives -- Brendan Kennelly. 13 : emerging isues in the law within a changing human rights framework / Marys Keys. 14 : risk and the risk society : the impact on metal health services / Michael Nash, Jo Murphy-Lawless and Marina Bowe. 15 : challenging the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry in psychiatry / David Healy. 16 : into the future : promoting mental health and democratising support for people with mental [or] emotional distress / Agnes Higgins, Shari McDaid and Paddy McGowan --

This book provides an overview and critical analysis of developments in policy, practice and law in the Irish mental health services from 1945 to the present day, contextualised within key emerging theoretical concepts.

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Mental health services--Evaluation.
Mental health services--Ireland.
Mental health personnel and patient--Ireland.
Mental health personnel--Professional ethics--Ireland.
Mental health laws--Ireland.

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