Mounted as HTML by Chris Evans C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk, 24.xi.96 within the Section of Psychotherapy pages

REPORT OF THE INQUIRY INTO THE CARE OF XXX XXX

SOUTHERN DERBYSHIRE HEALTH AUTHORITY & DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

August 1996


I have mounted an anonymised version of the report here as I believe it is of fundamental importance. It touches the heart of the need for systemic thinking as opposed to knee-jerk confidentiality thinking (i.e. a fully informed and considered confidentiality contract rather than some automatic assumption of some sort of confidentiality), on the importance of counsellors in training having experience of the very difficult issues of assessment of dangerousness and of level of "psychosis" or "primary process" and the need for teams to collaborate and understand that management of dangerousness involves very careful consideration of the families even of adult patients and of therapies other than pharmacological even when pharmacological therapies are being used and are clearly having benefit

As such it touches on all my interests: ethics, epistemology, counselling and psychotherapy, forensic work and family/systemic work. I hope others will find it useful and will feedback their thoughts on the report to me C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk


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