Public mental health crisis management and Section 136 of the Mental Health Act

Section 136 of the Mental Health Act: a new literature review.

Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended) provides police officers in the United Kingdom with the authority to remove individuals who appear to be suffering from a mental illness from any public place to a designated 'place of safety' for appropriate assessment. A considerable amount of research has been dedicated to investigate who is detained under this section and how it is impleme...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

letter to the editor does not have abstract.

Mental handicap and the mental health act.

Implementing the Mental Health Act

Residential Accommodation and Day Centres The proposals put forward for hostels vary considerably : the majority see the need for something extra and some plan special hostels for the aged and mentally infirm; some for patients discharged from mental hospitals; some use the hostels of voluntary organisations, some their own. Little is said about the need to collaborate with mental hospitals but...

The Mental Health Act, 1959

a series of articles in The Hospital, written during 1959-60, and made available in book form in response to many requests received. It does not attempt to be a complete and comprehensive guide to the Act; the full text of every section and of every Regulation is not reproduced, reproductions of the Circulars are not included. It is intended to be read in conjunction with the Act itself, but as...