The following article by S. W. Hardwick, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.M., has been compiled from views expressed in a report on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Law relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency, prepared by the Group Medical Committee of the Darenth and Stone Hospital Management Committee, which administers a hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders and a Mental Deficiency ...

Beginning with the premise that both the number and percentage of mentally ill inmates as sharply risen in recent years, this Article explores the path of mentally ill offenders in the American criminal justice system. It seeks to identify points of relief from the current crisis, in which a recent report stated that over 40% of state prisoners reported symptoms that met the criteria for mania....

Stigmas toward those who have mental illnesses are wide-spread and detrimental to the health and wellbeing of those suffering from these debilitating conditions, and to society as a whole. Stigma-reducing programs are plentiful but many are only marginally effective. In this paper we describe and evaluate a course in Psychopathology that included service-learning and reflection activities as ce...

One of these is community care for the mentally disordered (i-e., for the mentally ill, the mentally deficient and the psychopathic); the Mackintosh report, the Royal Commission and the new Rental Health Act all accept this as one of their working principles. \et another theory is that of social work in Local Government as distinct from general welfare duties. This is the keystone of the awe-in...

THE 1959 Mental Health Act emphasises the need to integrate psychiatric patients with the community at large rather than to isolate them from it, as hitherto. This identification with the normal community has been the Ministry of Labour's approach to the employment of disabled people since the time of the Disabled Persons (Employment) <4ct of 1944. For the past 17 years all disabled people, whe...

A chapter from his forthcoming book "Deciding for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled," Professor Norman Cantor argues persuasively for the right of incompetent persons to have a surrogate make critical medical decisions on their behalf, particularly in the context of refusing life-sustaining treatment. While abusive surrogate decision-making is always a concern, Professor Cantor recommends both s...

Thirty-one children who survived severe birth asphyxia defined by a 1-minute Apgar score of 0, or a 5-minute Apgar score of less than 4, have been seen at age 5 to 10 years for neurological and psychological assessment. Their progress has been compared with that of controls matched for sex, birthweight, gestational age, and social class. 29(93%) of the 31 asphyxiated group and all the controls ...

th ? AR Sir,?There has grown up a body of law in ls country with regard to the care and education ^ Mentally handicapped children based upon the ^sumption that there are three categories of udren: normal, educationally subnormal, and mentally defective. All who have had anything to do with the cateones regarded as subnormal will know from Perience that the position is far from satisfactory. th'...

This article examines two important aspects of work behavior, labor-force participation, and earnings among persons who since 1976 have become entitled to SSI disability benefits and received payments for a full calendar year or longer during the intervening time period. A data set was developed containing the records of a random sample of all individuals who had ever received Supplemental Secu...

This is the first of a series of papers in which we describe social relationships among mentally disabled adults who worked in four sheltered workshops. In this paper, procedures for observing and interviewing clients and for interviewing staff members were described, and data on reliability and general levels of social behavior were reported. Reliability of social behavior was significant acro...