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The use of the Mental Health Act in learning disabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Yan Kon  and
Nick Bouras
Yan Kon
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry and Psychology, Section of Disability, UMDS (Guy's Campus), St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RT
Nick Bouras*
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry and Psychology, Section of Disability, UMDS (Guy's Campus), St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RT
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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Psychiatrists in learning disabilities in the South-East Thames Region were asked to fill in questionnaires on the last five patients they had sectioned in an attempt to describe current practice in their usage of the Mental Health Act (1983). Clients tended to be sectioned under the category of mental impairment and were mainly young males with violent behaviour. Treatment of mental illness was less of a problem.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 10 , October 1996 , pp. 596 - 598
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Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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