Ethnicity as a predictor of detention under the Mental Health Act

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 997-1004

  Singh, S P ^a   Burns, T ^b   Tyrer, P ^c   Islam, Z ^d   Parsons, H ^a   Crawford, M J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL MENTAL HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coercion; ethnic minority; Mental Health Act; psychosis; risk; transcultural psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84896358877     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329171300086X     Document Type: Article

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