Archive for February, 2010

Coercion and Consent: Monitoring the Mental Health Act 2007-2009

Product DescriptionThis is the last report of the Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC), collating information on the use of powers in the Mental Health Act in England and Wales for the final two-year period (2007/08 and 2008/09). It is published posthumously, given the dissolution of the MHAC on the 1 April 2009 and the merging [...]

The Mental Health of Refugees: Ecological Approaches To Healing and Adaptation

Product DescriptionIt is estimated that at least 33 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes by war or persecution. Numerous studies have documented high rates of psychological distress among these survivors of extreme violence and forced migration, yet very few have access to clinic-based mental health care. In any case, clinic-based [...]

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