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Those more easiest who have learn'd to dance
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Sarah, LEDGER Karen
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 7(3), August 2003, pp.15-20.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The first author introduces the Strategies for Living project which was established as a project within the Mental Health Foundation. Strategies for Living was a user-led research project which aimed to design a research process which would interview current and ex-mental health service users to talk to them about their strategies for living and coping with mental distress. The project also supported six service user research projects. The second author goes on to describe her experiences of working as a research within the programme is a 5 Rhythms Dance project.
Child protection post-Laming: the wider agenda
- Author:
- BULLOCK Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(5), October 2003, pp.13-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Laming Inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie recommends national and local changes to the child protection process. Argues that practice development has to be informed by research into the epidemiology of child abuse and the effects of decisions on children's welfare. A common language to identify and analyse children's needs and relate them to services, manifest in validated practice tools for use by managers and practitioners, is suggested as a way forward.
A pilot evaluation of a therapeutic community for adolescent male sexual abusers
- Authors:
- BOSWELL Gwyneth, WEDGE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 24(4), 2003, pp.259-276.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Outlines the content and outcome of research into the views of ex-residents of a therapeutic community for adolescent male sexual abusers. The study also used a comparison group of those who were referred, but did not become resident, re-conviction rates of both sexual and non-sexual offending had been considerably reduced. The ex-residents were almost unanimously positive about their time in the therapeutic community and the coping techniques with which it has provided them.
Setting up new services: how service users were involved in planning therapeutic community day programmes
- Author:
- RAWLINGS Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 24(4), 2003, pp.245-257.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes how service users with personality disorders helped to plan therapeutic community day programmes in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester. The planning for the three programmes was initiated and led by Webb House, a residential therapeutic community, and carried out in partnership with local statutory and voluntary groups. The author describes how, in each location, service users had different degrees of participation in planning, and describes how this participation worked. It goes on to look at three problems which arose in the course of this planning method: finding appropriate service users to recruit, assessing and managing the emotional risk for service users who became involved in the planning enterprise, and creating a 'quasi-staff' role for ex-therapeutic community members who joined the planning groups and the programmes.
Substance misuse among young people referred to a UK psychiatric service
- Author:
- MUTALE Theodore
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 5(4), November 2003, pp.3-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on one aspect of a descriptive and prospective study of 140 consecutive young people aged 12 to 18 years assessed by a combined general and forensic adolescent psychiatric service between November 1996 and October 1997. Comorbidity of substance misuse is discussed, also examines the possible role of substance misuse as a gateway to adolescent offending. Makes recommendations for the development of adolescent substance misuse services.
The effects of relocation and staff changes on individuals with a personality disorder
- Author:
- COUGHLIN Louise
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 5(4), November 2003, pp.12-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on a research study which compares staff and patient perceptions of two new wards in a medium secure unit, and to compare staff and patient perceptions of the new ward with their ideal ward environment. Results obtained from the patients indicated that there were differences between perceptions of the new treatment unit and the former treatment unit. Results also indicated that there was a difference between perceptions of the new treatment unit and the ideal ward environment. Results obtained from staff could not be analysed because of a low response rate.
Community development with a care and support agenda: is it achievable?
- Author:
- QUILGARS Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(4), November 2003, pp.4-9.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Care and support agendas have tended to focus on the need to develop effective services to meet individualised needs within communities of interest. In contrast, community development and regeneration policy have concentrated on the needs of the broader 'community' but with little regard to support and care. Reports on a three-year pilot initiative, the Hull Community Care Development Project, which aimed to develop the capacity of local communities to respond to their own support and 'community care' needs. An independent evaluation documented how such an approach could begin to bridge community and care, and how this produced new challenges, communities prioritising broad neighbourhood issues over specific care and support concerns.
Developing housing options for prison leavers: a link worker scheme for those with mental health and multiple needs
- Author:
- FITZPATRICK Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(4), November 2003, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Revolving Doors Agency is currently developing an experimental housing project in Islington for prison leavers with mental health and multiple needs. Summarises the strategic context and research that demonstrates the need for such services, provides an outline for a model of practice and provides recommendations for the development of housing options for vulnerable prison leavers.
Care home or supported housing?
- Author:
- CONVERY Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(4), November 2003, pp.19-21.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In June 2003 the Care Standards Tribunal heard an appeal from Alternative Futures Limited against a decision by the National Care Standards Commission to refuse Alternative Futures' application for voluntary cancellation of the registration of 11 care homes under Section 15(1)(b) of the Care Standards Act 2000. Alternative Futures had applied for the cancellation of registration because it felt that the homes were no longer functioning as registered residential homes but were supported housing with domiciliary care. The service users had learning disabilities and had been granted tenancies. The article summarises some of the key points of the judgement which help to clarify what is and what is not a registered care home under the terms of the Care Standards Act 2000.
Extra care housing: getting the facts straight and improving practice
- Authors:
- RISEBOROUGH Moyra, PORTEUS Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(4), November 2003, pp.22-28.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Presents an overview on what extra care housing is (sometimes called very sheltered housing) and makes a few points on what really helps improve commissioning. Also draws on innovative and up-to-date material developed for the Department of Health's Housing Learning and Improvement Network by Moyra Riseborough from CURS at the University of Birmingham and Peter Fletcher of Peter Fletcher Associates.