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Living with HIV
- Author:
- CARTER Michael
- Publisher:
- NAM
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 308p.
- Place of publication:
- London
An introduction to the key issues involved with life with HIV. It contains information on both medical and social aspects as well as first hand accounts from HIV-positive people on how they have coped with the realities of day-to-day life with HIV.
Keep quiet about it
- Author:
- CARTER Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.12.05, 2005, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article looks at the personal experience of the stigma of mental health in a sample of people with mental health problems. Seventy-five people took part in the study which was carried out by North West Wales NHS Trust. Results show that stigma and the fear of negative reactions form others because of mental health problems are prevalent. A lower proportion of discrimination was reported compared to the experience of stigma. Future research will need to examine strategies found to be helpful in coping with stigma.
Time-limited therapy in a Community Mental Health Team setting
- Author:
- CARTER Michael Fitzgerald
- Journal article citation:
- Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 5(1), May 2005, pp.43-47.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study examines time limited therapy in a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) setting. This work is directed towards CMHTs who are under pressure to focus on clients with serious mental illness as a priority as opposed to clients who might be deemed the 'psychologically distressed'. The development of CMHTs in the UK is described. Limited research on time-limited therapy in a CMHT setting is identifed. Results suggest that time-limited therapy has a positive impact on the mental health needs of clients referred to a CMHT by GPs. It is concluded that it is appropriate to justify the use of time-limited therapy in a CMHT-based setting. Suggestions for further research are made.
The relationship of a self-reported assessment of need in mental illness to insight
- Author:
- CARTER Michael E.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 12(1), February 2003, pp.81-89.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
UK national mental health policy reform places an increased emphasis on mental health service user participation as an important variable in the assessment of need. A review of mental health need assessment methodologies shows that there are controversies in the definition and assessment of mental health need. This, in part, relates to `poor agreement' and the under-reporting of need by clients compared to key-workers. The aim was to examine the relationship of insight to self-reported needs in an assessment of need situation. One hundred and sixty Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) service users and their respective key-workers participated in a survey design using the Bangor Assessment of Need Profile and The Insight Scale. Data show that people with a mental illness having more insight rate more need and that key-workers continue to rate needs when a person with a mental illness has no insight. It is concluded that measures of insight can be used in order to explore and define the characteristics of people with a mental illness who are `better' able to report their needs compared to those who are `less' able.