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Time to care
- Authors:
- NELSON Sarah, MacDONALD Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, February 2010, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Cairdeas is operated by Penumbra Respite Care, a major Scottish mental health charity, and offers residential respite care as planned breaks for people with a wide range of mental ill health. It gives them short supported breaks away from their home environment to help them over difficult times and to give carers a break. The service is like a guest house, but has skilled staff working on a 24-hour basis and provides social outings like going to the cinema. Yet, despite having only 8 beds and being able to offer 400 respite weeks a year for the whole of Scotland, Cairdeas is often under-used by local authorities, despite an apparent desperate need among carers of adults with mental health problems. The project director, Be Morris, argues that this is because respite is still seen as an add-on extra, that mental health carers are often hidden, and that these carers are missing out on assessments of their need. Statistics have shown that 40% of carers in Scotland have not had an overnight break in the last 2 years.
We can change it
- Authors:
- NELSON Sarah, MacDONALD Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, December 2007, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author outlines some of the key components of the Scottish Government's National Strategy for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
You need to have been there
- Author:
- NELSON Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, July 2007, pp.37-39.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The voluntary sector organisation Depression Alliance Scotland (DAS) was granted research funding from the Scottish Executive's National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Well-being for a study of self-help groups. The research aimed to explore the ways in which self help groups contribute best to recovery and to maintain good health. In the study questionnaire data were gained from 20 current DAS group attenders, and these were amalgameted with data from previous DAS surveys.
Torn up with anger
- Author:
- NELSON Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2005, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Reports on a survey commissioned in September 2003 by NHS Lothian for Mental Health in Mind to undertake an assessment of the needs of and resources available to survivors of child sexual abuse across Lothian, to identify gaps in service provision to this group, and to make recommendations on what services should be available. A total of 105 questionnaires were distributed to voluntary and statutory sector organisations in Edinburgh and 82 were returned. Follow-up interviews were also carried out with 9 statutory and voluntary organisations, and interviews were also held with two small groups of male survivors, and with two individuals. Summarises the key findings and recommendations for expanding and improving service provision for this client group.