Caroline Leah
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Leah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Leah |
| SIGNATURE | LEAH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6659-7848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘I don’t think there’s many British African Caribbean men that talk positively about mental health services’
Detention under mental health law is based on professional assessments of risk but impacts on patients’ trust. Little attention has been paid by sociologists to the operation of risk, trust and racism during mental health detention processes. Our study addresses this gap through thirteen qualitative interviews with professionals, conducted in England in 2023 focusing on the mental health detention of British African Caribbean men: a group disprop…
What it means to be human, what it means to be hurt, and what it means to thrive
The Role of the Approved Mental Health Professional
This article explores the concept of a ‘fool’s errand’ in relation to the specialist role of the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). An AMHP has a duty to make an application following a Mental Health Act assessment to detain and admit an individual to a psychiatric hospital. Findings from a qualitative study of ten multiprofessional AMHPs in England suggested AMHPs were subjected to a ‘fool’s errand’, when they were asked by psychiatrist…
Research Informed Practice; Practice Informed Research
An inaugural conference was held in May 2019 which had as its theme research informed practice; practice informed research. The aim of this conference was to encourage practitioner researchers to e
Global Childhoods
Global childhoods is an ambitious and wide-ranging book that interrogates the debates on the notion of childhood, by drawing on a diverse range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, education, law and development studies. In doing so, it achieves the admirable task of bringing new insights and perspectives on the notion of children and childhood from, as the title suggests, across the globe. These include the understanding and perpetua…
Our Encounters with Suicide
Our Encounters with Suicide is part of an extended collection that contemplates narratives of lived experiences by service users, carers and survivors from both sides of the Atlantic. It is a collection of stories that are organised thematically into five interesting areas: Witnessing Suicide, Living in the Wake of Suicide, Thinking Suicide, Surviving Suicide and Defending Suicide. Each of these chapters can be read discreetly, which will appeal …
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Our Encounters with Suicide
Our Encounters with Suicide is part of an extended collection that contemplates narratives of lived experiences by service users, carers and survivors from both sides of the Atlantic. It is a collection of stories that are organised thematically into five interesting areas: Witnessing Suicide, Living in the Wake of Suicide, Thinking Suicide, Surviving Suicide and Defending Suicide. Each of these chapters can be read discreetly, which will appeal …
Global Childhoods
Global childhoods is an ambitious and wide-ranging book that interrogates the debates on the notion of childhood, by drawing on a diverse range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, education, law and development studies. In doing so, it achieves the admirable task of bringing new insights and perspectives on the notion of children and childhood from, as the title suggests, across the globe. These include the understanding and perpetua…
Research Informed Practice; Practice Informed Research
An inaugural conference was held in May 2019 which had as its theme research informed practice; practice informed research. The aim of this conference was to encourage practitioner researchers to e
The Role of the Approved Mental Health Professional
This article explores the concept of a ‘fool’s errand’ in relation to the specialist role of the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). An AMHP has a duty to make an application following a Mental Health Act assessment to detain and admit an individual to a psychiatric hospital. Findings from a qualitative study of ten multiprofessional AMHPs in England suggested AMHPs were subjected to a ‘fool’s errand’, when they were asked by psychiatrist…
What it means to be human, what it means to be hurt, and what it means to thrive
‘I don’t think there’s many British African Caribbean men that talk positively about mental health services’
Detention under mental health law is based on professional assessments of risk but impacts on patients’ trust. Little attention has been paid by sociologists to the operation of risk, trust and racism during mental health detention processes. Our study addresses this gap through thirteen qualitative interviews with professionals, conducted in England in 2023 focusing on the mental health detention of British African Caribbean men: a group disprop…
Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Alternative medicine (1 works)