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Critically evaluate the concept or notion of 'Care in the community', considering some benefits or problems facing people with mental problems.
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The concept of care in the community is that it "...focuses on individuals with need, and recommends that these needs are met by individualised packages of care" (Coulshed & Orme, 1998, p.45). This assignment will evaluate the notion of 'care in the community' by examining the historical context of community care for people with mental health problems, looking at models of care and considering some of the benefits and difficulties people with mental health problems face. Mentally healthy people are described as being able to cope in social situations and form and maintain relationships; as having the ability to develop and continuously readjust by learning new skills and meeting new challenges (Tilbury, 1993). Under the 1983 Mental Health Act, a mental disorder means "...mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder and any other disorder or disability of mind" (www.butterworths.co.uk/academic/fortin/ statutes/mha83.htm). Mental health care in the community came about due...
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