Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Nursing. This presentation explores the development of forensic psychiatric services in Auckland, New Zealand in the late 1980s and 1990s. The story is based on oral histories undertaken with twenty one participants who helped create the service. They told of an innovative service, shaped by driven, motivated people, following some inspiring leadership. The background for this innovation and change was the chaos and struggles of the mental health hospital Oakley/ Carrington, wider political wrangles over whether responsibility for forensic patients lay with the Departments of Justice or Health, and the driving philosophy and policy of deinstitutionalisation. The forensic service that these contributors created was predicated on a distancing from the past chaos, and looking forward to creating a service that was new, different and with home-grown solutions.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Prebble is a nurse-historian with a long career in mental health nursing as a clinician, academic, and professional leader. Her primary research is in the social history of mental health nursing.
Relevant Books and Articles from UBC Library
Prebble, K. (2009). Remembering 100 years of mental health nursing registration. Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z.: 1995), 14(12), 26. [Link]
Hudson, E., Thom, K., & Prebble, K. (2015). Service users’ experiences of voluntary admission to mental hospital: A review of research literature. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 22(3), 327-336. doi:10.1080/13218719.2014.959156. [Link]
Prebble, K., Gooder, C., & Thom, K. (2014). New Zealand’s mental health district inspector in historical context: “the impartial scrutiny of a citizen of standing”. Journal of Law and Medicine, 22(2), 415.
Bazley, M., & Prebble, K. (2007). Rita McEwan–nursing leading, reformer and visionary.(NEWS AND EVENTS). Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 13(1), 8. [Link]
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