All Outputs (109)

The impact of austerity on mental health service provision : a UK perspective (2018)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2018). The impact of austerity on mental health service provision : a UK perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(6), 1145. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061145

This is a discussion paper which examines the impact of austerity policies on the provision of mental health services in the United Kingdom. Austerity is a shorthand for a
series of policies introduced by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalit... Read More about The impact of austerity on mental health service provision : a UK perspective.

Community treatment orders and social outcomes in psychosis (2018)
Other
Cummins, I. (2018). Community treatment orders and social outcomes in psychosis

Reporting sexual violence on mental health wards (2018)
Journal Article
Foley, M., & Cummins, I. (2018). Reporting sexual violence on mental health wards. Journal of Adult Protection, 20(2), 93-100. https://doi.org/10.1108/jap-11-2017-0036

Purpose
This paper reports the findings of a scoping study that explored the extent of recorded sexual violence perpetrated on inpatients on mental health units.

Design/methodology/approach
Using Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests, d... Read More about Reporting sexual violence on mental health wards.

Poverty Inequality and Social Work (2018)
Book
Cummins, I. (2018). Poverty Inequality and Social Work. BrIstol: Policy Press

This is a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on welfare provision. It argues that social work should move away from an emphasis on risk management and bureaucracy.

Critical psychiatry : a biography (2017)
Book
Cummins, I. (2017). Critical psychiatry : a biography. Northwich, UK: Critical Publishing

Critical Psychiatry outlines the history of a group of thinkers that has come to be known as the anti-psychiatry movement. Though it has been called a movement, the individual thinkers’ and authors’ ideas were often in conflict but what they share is... Read More about Critical psychiatry : a biography.

Mental health training programmes for non-mental health professionals (2017)
Other
Cummins, I. (2017). Mental health training programmes for non-mental health professionals

Home eviction and health inequalities (2017)
Other
Cummins, I. (2017). Home eviction and health inequalities

Ian Brady’s lack of remorse for Moors Murders guaranteed the media’s enduring fascination (2017)
Other
Cummins, I. (2017). Ian Brady’s lack of remorse for Moors Murders guaranteed the media’s enduring fascination

Rereading Rosenhan (2017)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2020). Rereading Rosenhan. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 28(1), 38-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137317690377

Rosenhan’s pseudopatient experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies or experiments that has ever been conducted. The experiment took place at the end of a period in the 1960s which saw the intellectual base of psychiatry and psychiatr... Read More about Rereading Rosenhan.

Why privatisation of social care may not be the answer to a coming crisis (2016)
Other
Parkinson, K., & Cummins, I. (2016). Why privatisation of social care may not be the answer to a coming crisis

Social work and the penal state (2016)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2016). Social work and the penal state. European Journal of Social Work, 20(1), 54-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2016.1206850

The Criminal Justice System (CJS) has historically been a key site of social work intervention. Wacquant (2008, 2009a and 2009b) argues that the growth of social insecurity and the expansion of the penal state are endogenous features of the neo-liber... Read More about Social work and the penal state.

Putting diagnosis into brackets : Franco Basaglia, radical psychiatry, and contemporary mental health services (2016)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2016). Putting diagnosis into brackets : Franco Basaglia, radical psychiatry, and contemporary mental health services. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 26(3), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137316659206

Mental health services in England and Wales are facing a crisis. The vision of properly funded, flexible, and service-user focused community-based services, that was one of the key drivers of deinstitutionalization, has never been realized. This arti... Read More about Putting diagnosis into brackets : Franco Basaglia, radical psychiatry, and contemporary mental health services.

The media, serial killers, and a perfect summer novel about both (2016)
Other
Cummins, I., & King, M. (2016). The media, serial killers, and a perfect summer novel about both

From hero of the counterculture to risk assessment : a consideration of two portrayals of the “psychiatric patient” (2016)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2016). From hero of the counterculture to risk assessment : a consideration of two portrayals of the “psychiatric patient”. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 26(2), 111-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137316649734

This article is based on a comparative thematic analysis of two novels that explore the experiences of institutional psychiatric care. Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a classic of modern U.S. literature. It is argued here th... Read More about From hero of the counterculture to risk assessment : a consideration of two portrayals of the “psychiatric patient”.

The Moors murders 50 years on: how Brady and Hindley became an awful ‘celebrity’ template (2016)
Other
Cummins, I. (2016). The Moors murders 50 years on: how Brady and Hindley became an awful ‘celebrity’ template

Suicide on the railways can be prevented – here’s what’s being done already (2016)
Other
Cummins, I. (2016). Suicide on the railways can be prevented – here’s what’s being done already

Mental health and the criminal justice system : a social work perspective (2016)
Book
Cummins, I. (2016). Mental health and the criminal justice system : a social work perspective. Critical Publishing Ltd

The Criminal Justice System is becoming a de facto provider of mental health care, according to a series of recent prison inspections and reports on policing and mental illness which have highlighted the crisis in mental health services. However, th... Read More about Mental health and the criminal justice system : a social work perspective.

The strange case of Ian Stuart Brady and the Mental Health Review Tribunal (2016)
Journal Article
Cummins, I., Foley, M., & King, M. (2016). The strange case of Ian Stuart Brady and the Mental Health Review Tribunal. ˜The œInternet journal of criminology,

Haggerty (2009) argues that serial killing is essentially a phenomenon of modernity. One of the key features of modernity is the role of mass media and the rise of celebrity culture. He suggests that there is a symbiotic relationship between the medi... Read More about The strange case of Ian Stuart Brady and the Mental Health Review Tribunal.

Wacquant, urban marginality, territorial stigmatization and social work (2016)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2016). Wacquant, urban marginality, territorial stigmatization and social work. Aotearoa New Zealand social work (Online), 28(2), 75-83. https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol28iss2id226

Loic Wacquant is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He has written extensively on issues related to urban poverty, race and the expansion of the use of imprisonment. Wacquant is heavily influenced by the wor... Read More about Wacquant, urban marginality, territorial stigmatization and social work.

Policing and street triage (2016)
Journal Article
Cummins, I., & Edmondson, D. (2016). Policing and street triage. Journal of Adult Protection, 18(1), 40-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-03-2015-0009

Purpose

– In his recent report, Lord Adebowale (2013) described mental health issues as “core police business”. The recent retrenchment in mental health and wider public services mean that the demands on the police in this area are likely to incre... Read More about Policing and street triage.