Category: Safe in their ivory towers
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There aren’t anywhere near enough inpatient psychiatric beds in the UK. Pt 4.
In Pt 3 The Prof was saying Britain hasn’t yet exhausted all potential alternative strategies to admission. As far as her own list of ‘potential strategies’ goes, er, it’s a bit thin on the ground. There are two. One of them – a crisis house – is not a viable model to replace acute wards.…
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There aren’t anywhere near enough inpatient psychiatric beds in the UK. Pt 3.
If you remember, in Pt 2 I was correcting Prof Jonson’s use of weasel words when kitchen sinking inpatient wards for falling short of perfection. *) Weasel words example 2 = ‘…addressing the major problems associated with severe mental illness.’ Severe mental illness. Is that all? Severe mental illness includes MDD, BPAD, the schizophreniform disorders…
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There aren’t anywhere near enough inpatient psychiatric beds in the UK. Pt 2.
Moving on to Prof Johnson’s second idea to debunk is ‘that community care policies result in high levels of antisocial behaviour and failure to sustain community living.’ High is an elastic term if you don’t provide a scale and ‘failure to sustain’ can mean absolutely anything. If a community patient doesn’t achieve a Masters in…
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There aren’t anywhere near enough inpatient psychiatric beds in the UK. Pt 1.
You might think intelligent and highly educated people like professors and consultant psychiatrists would know about straw men and why they shouldn’t use them. You might also think a certain standard of citing evidence should be required, when there is any, to back up one’s points and when there isn’t, to say so, as in,…