A FRAMEWORK FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN SCOTLAND:
Originally published in 1997, this document continues to grow and expand to reflect current thinking on the best way to provide mental health services in Scotland. Visit the Framework website at www.show.scot.nhs.uk/publications/mental_health_services The Framework is a “living” document and remains relevant to latest thinking and policy advances by additions when and where necessary of new sections or expanded entries to the text e.g.:
Additional service profile on services for women with postnatal depression (March 1999);
An expanded core service element chapter on psychological interventions (talking treatments) (October 2001);
Additional guidance on services for those with an eating disorder (October 2001); and
Additional service profile on Perinatal Mental Illness/Postnatal Depression Hospital Admission and Support Services (March 2004).
Additional service profile on The Planning, Organisation and Delivery of Joined Up Services for those with Dementia and their Carers (November 2004).


