Chapter 35: Non-medical alternatives for crisis care
1. How often are minimum medication or drug-free strategies used in mainstream services?
2. What aspect of alternative forms of care lends itself to better long term outcomes?
Answer: An emphasis on developing meaning and understanding
3. What has been one of the main barriers to establishment of a wider range of alternatives?
Answer: This is mostly due to lack of resources, but there may also be issues of professional resistance that play into funding decisions. There is some good evidence in favour of some approaches, but the lack of resources also applies to identifying research funds to study the potential benefit of alternatives
4. Who wrote On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System?
5. Which radical network is linked to Sli Eile Farm?
Answer: Critical Voices Network, Ireland
6. What was the name of the famous alternative treatment centre led by R. D. Laing?
7. Which sociologist is associated with Open Dialogue ideas?
