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Communication and the mentally ill patient
Author(s) -
MUIR NIKI
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-6984.1995.tb01653.x
Subject(s) - premise , mental health , discipline , psychology , dimension (graph theory) , mentally ill , health care , mental healthcare , medical education , nursing , mental illness , medicine , psychiatry , linguistics , sociology , political science , social science , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , law
Do speech and language therapists have a role to play in mental health, or is this a further move away from the core skills of the profession (Enderby & Davis, 1989)? Care in the community means that many more people with a history of mental illness are going to be receiving their healthcare in general settings, thus placing demands on the profession to make a local response to meeting needs. It is the premise of this article that speech and language therapists are likely to prove valuable members of the multi‐disciplinary team, with the ability to contribute a further dimension to care planning — that of specific clinical input to the wide range of language, speech and communication impairments associated with the major mental illnesses.