This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Beckett, C., 2003. The language of siege: military metaphors in the spoken language of…

The Journal of Mental Health Promotion is now the Journal of Public Mental Health, ISSN 1746-5729., This article relates one aspect of an action research project on work related stress and mental health problems to its wider context. It is…

Is the tyranny of the co-edition taking away
the magic of a ‘sense of place’ in picturebooks? In this essay, Martin Salisbury discusses the impact of globalised publishing on what picturebook artists may and may not represent.

The foraging behavior of starved and non-starved adult and larval Coccinella septempunctata on groups of plants in the presence of Pandora neoaphidis-infected Acyrthosiphon pisum, uninfected aphids or a mixture of these two prey types was compared. In general results of…

This paper reports on a study of a new outpatient service for people with personality disorders (Henderson Outreach Service Team: HOST) during its first 2 years of operation. The study is presented as an
example of how service-specific evaluation can…

This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal of Mental Health, 15(1), pp.103-111. Journal of Mental Health is available online at: http://informahealthcare.com/journal/jmh., Background: Enabling service users to find and keep real jobs is a significant strand…

This paper investigates the impact of violent political conflict on social workers and service users in three countries: Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine. Despite its significance for social work (and other helping professions), there is a dearth of research on…

Most parents or carers who separate or divorce are able to make arrangements themselves about where their children will reside and how the children’s contact with the non-resident parent will be managed. A further group of parents or carers are…

The closing decades of the twentieth century saw a dramatic shift from institutional to community-based care for the mentally ill. This paper describes a study of the social representation of mental illness by mental health professionals working in Britain and…

The Irish are the largest and longest-established non-British minority ethnic group in Britain, but their difference
is recognised only in the migrant generation. Unlike the second generations of the so-called 'visible' ethnic groups, children of Irish-born parents in England are…