I Have Found it...

Passed frm pillar to post once too often:

For the record the following is form Lyttle's Mental Health and Disorder (Second Edition):

Gender issues:

Although studies of the long term mentally ill show little proportional differences between male and female patients, admissions to mental hospital as a whole show highest numbers of unmarried men and married women. In further analysis of hospital admissions as a whole women have been found to have to come into contact with psychiatric services later; and are diagnosed later (Test and Berlin, 1981; Bachrach, 1984b; 1985) This may be due to an absense of pathology, later diagnosis or a better prognosis, but in discissing the research result, the authors speculate that it is possibly due to society having lower experctations of women, perceiving their role as inferior and more submissive

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Perkins (1991) concludes from a srudy she conducted in London which reveals that women were underepresented amongst those receiving a higher level of input from the services. Perkins and Rowland (1991) concludes that the stereotyping of women as passive, emotional and childlike tends to deprive them of access to the care that they need. Social providors need not only be aware of these issues, but to look to effective ways of ensuring that they do no follow these plans. (p.399)