Note of a SocialPerspectivesNetwork study day on promoting social care perspectives within integration. The paper includes details of the three main speakers Tony Gardener, Peter Gilbert and Ann Davis and feedback from group workshops. The speakers covered: the experience of integration of health and social care in Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust; how integration can produce better outcomes
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Note of a SocialPerspectivesNetwork study day on promoting social care perspectives within integration. The paper includes details of the three main speakers Tony Gardener, Peter Gilbert and Ann Davis and feedback from group workshops. The speakers covered: the experience of integration of health and social care in Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust; how integration can produce better outcomes for service users and carers within mental health; and what integration has to offer mental health services.
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Subject terms:
integration, mental health services, service users, social work, health care, social care, integrated services;
Note of a SocialPerspectivesNetwork study day on the family and mental health services. The study day covers the topics of the problems of transition from services for adolescents to adult services; the needs of children who are victims of crime; and the needs of children and parents where there is parental mental ill health. There was general agreement from presenters and participants about
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Note of a SocialPerspectivesNetwork study day on the family and mental health services. The study day covers the topics of the problems of transition from services for adolescents to adult services; the needs of children who are victims of crime; and the needs of children and parents where there is parental mental ill health. There was general agreement from presenters and participants about the nature of the difficulties experienced by service users and professionals. It was also agreed that most of these were ultimately caused by a lack of resources. Additional barriers identified were the inflexibility of the system, the dominance of targets and rigid agency or budgetary boundaries. Discussion groups referred frequently to training needs, wanting a more generic approach to training, which would take into account the need for knowledge outside one’s own specialism.
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Subject terms:
mental health services, families, service transitions, parental mental health, young people, children, child and adolescent mental health services, mental health problems;
Note of a SocialPerspectivesNetwork study day which brought together people active in research which in some way is based on the lived experience of service users, or of groups who have been marginalised or oppressed. The day intended to open up discussion about the different social frameworks which exist, including user-led research. It also aimed to highlight collaborative approaches which
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Note of a SocialPerspectivesNetwork study day which brought together people active in research which in some way is based on the lived experience of service users, or of groups who have been marginalised or oppressed. The day intended to open up discussion about the different social frameworks which exist, including user-led research. It also aimed to highlight collaborative approaches which can help reclaim the idea that our own life experiences are central to how we carry out research and what we do with it. The workshops looked at participants' own experience of, and views on, being involved in research; and were asked to identify some research issues which SPN might want to see prioritised in future. A strong theme during the day was the way in which user/survivors and activists have been developing different approaches to research - approaches which have at their core the lived experience of people going through mental distress, and which are sensitive to those experiences.
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Subject terms:
user led research, mental health problems, service users, research, user participation;
The Delivering Race Equality (DRE) Ambassadors Programme ran from 2007 to 2010 in response to increasing concerns about the experiences of individuals from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups in mental health services. The aim of the Ambassador programme was to link into existing networks and build community engagement, via a network of independent community members, with lived experience of mental health, who would be able to represent the voices and views of groups and help ensure information flows. The goal of this evaluation was to determine the successes and learning points, and to analyse this learning in order to make informed recommendations to inform future developments. The methodology included: review of documentary evidence; interviews with key personnel involved in the programme; questionnaires sent by email to stakeholders; informal discussions with individual and group stakeholders; and a focus group with those who undertook the Ambassador role. The overall findings identified number of issues which had a significant impact on the Ambassador’s programme implementation and delivery: changing structures and processes; inconsistent application of the model; the inability to demonstrate clear outcomes; and perceptions about, and credibility of, the Ambassador role. All of these had an impact upon the effectiveness of the Ambassador programme. Despite this, anecdotal evidence point to pockets of good practice, which contributed to changes and improvements in the experience of BME service users.
The Delivering Race Equality (DRE) Ambassadors Programme ran from 2007 to 2010 in response to increasing concerns about the experiences of individuals from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups in mental health services. The aim of the Ambassador programme was to link into existing networks and build community engagement, via a network of independent community members, with lived experience of mental health, who would be able to represent the voices and views of groups and help ensure information flows. The goal of this evaluation was to determine the successes and learning points, and to analyse this learning in order to make informed recommendations to inform future developments. The methodology included: review of documentary evidence; interviews with key personnel involved in the programme; questionnaires sent by email to stakeholders; informal discussions with individual and group stakeholders; and a focus group with those who undertook the Ambassador role. The overall findings identified number of issues which had a significant impact on the Ambassador’s programme implementation and delivery: changing structures and processes; inconsistent application of the model; the inability to demonstrate clear outcomes; and perceptions about, and credibility of, the Ambassador role. All of these had an impact upon the effectiveness of the Ambassador programme. Despite this, anecdotal evidence point to pockets of good practice, which contributed to changes and improvements in the experience of BME service users.
Subject terms:
multicultural approach, racial equality, service users, user views, access to services, black and minority ethnic people, communities, community mental health services, evaluation;
Personalisation – or self directed support as it is sometimes known - is a new system of social care which holds out the promise of a fundamental shift of power towards service users, enabling them to have greater choice and control of the support they receive. This study day is open to all service users, careers, practitioners, managers, commissioners, academics and other people interested in sharing good practice and examining the challenges for all the stakeholders in realising the promise of this bold new agenda.
Personalisation – or self directed support as it is sometimes known - is a new system of social care which holds out the promise of a fundamental shift of power towards service users, enabling them to have greater choice and control of the support they receive. This study day is open to all service users, careers, practitioners, managers, commissioners, academics and other people interested in sharing good practice and examining the challenges for all the stakeholders in realising the promise of this bold new agenda.
Subject terms:
mental health care, personalisation, service users, empowerment;
Papers from a study day designed to look at findings from studies of child death. It also reviews the persistent problems of interagency communication. It focuses specifically on mental health problems of parents exacerbated by separation through hospitalisation, imprisonment and migration and how services need to respond to these issues.
Papers from a study day designed to look at findings from studies of child death. It also reviews the persistent problems of interagency communication. It focuses specifically on mental health problems of parents exacerbated by separation through hospitalisation, imprisonment and migration and how services need to respond to these issues.
Subject terms:
hospitals, interagency cooperation, mental health problems, parents, access to services, communication, parental mental health;
Recovery is increasingly seen as a progressive way forward in mental health. But to what extent is the current thinking and practice around recovery relevant to and inclusive of service users from diverse sections of the community, such as black and minority ethnic groups, (BME) lesbian, gay and bisexual communities (LGB) and women? This study contributes to this debate.
Recovery is increasingly seen as a progressive way forward in mental health. But to what extent is the current thinking and practice around recovery relevant to and inclusive of service users from diverse sections of the community, such as black and minority ethnic groups, (BME) lesbian, gay and bisexual communities (LGB) and women? This study contributes to this debate.
Subject terms:
lesbians, mental health problems, rehabilitation, treatment, therapy and treatment, women, bisexual people, black and minority ethnic people, communities, gay men;
SOCIALPERSPECTIVESNETWORK. CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP. Eastern Development Centre
Publisher:
SocialPerspectivesNetwork
Publication year:
2007
Pagination:
48p.
Place of publication:
London
The Health and Social Care White Paper, 'Our Health, Our Care, Our Say' presents a bold vision for the future of care and wellbeing support. It envisages future services being built around the informed choices of individuals and communities. It acknowledges people as citizens and active participants in their own care, discovering their own ways to gain and maintain wellbeing. Beyond this, it envisions the whole social care agenda moving away from the predominance of separate, specialist services and towards people meeting more of their social needs through universal services and through genuine inclusion in the valued activities of mainstream society. But how can this vision meet the complex mental health needs of those who are often most excluded and marginalised, both within services and within communities?
The Health and Social Care White Paper, 'Our Health, Our Care, Our Say' presents a bold vision for the future of care and wellbeing support. It envisages future services being built around the informed choices of individuals and communities. It acknowledges people as citizens and active participants in their own care, discovering their own ways to gain and maintain wellbeing. Beyond this, it envisions the whole social care agenda moving away from the predominance of separate, specialist services and towards people meeting more of their social needs through universal services and through genuine inclusion in the valued activities of mainstream society. But how can this vision meet the complex mental health needs of those who are often most excluded and marginalised, both within services and within communities?
Subject terms:
mental health care, needs, privatisation, social exclusion, social inclusion, access to services, communities;
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLAND. London Development Centre, SOCIALPERSPECTIVESNETWORK
Publisher:
SocialPerspectivesNetwork
Publication year:
2006
Pagination:
64p.
Place of publication:
London
The mental health needs of asylum-seekers and refugees is of particular concern in London. Organisations are currently working to find out more about the barriers asylum-seekers and refugees face in accessing appropriate mental health care and the numbers and needs of asylum-seekers in London. It is also important to identify current initiatives and good practice including employment of refugees in health and social care.
The mental health needs of asylum-seekers and refugees is of particular concern in London. Organisations are currently working to find out more about the barriers asylum-seekers and refugees face in accessing appropriate mental health care and the numbers and needs of asylum-seekers in London. It is also important to identify current initiatives and good practice including employment of refugees in health and social care.
Subject terms:
mental health care, needs, refugees, social care provision, asylum seekers, employment, health care, good practice;
The aim of the study day reported on in this paper was to bring together a diversity of people and perspectives to consider, reflect on, and celebrate some aspects of spirituality and mental health. There is an increasing weight of research evidence showing a positive correlation between physical and mental health and longevity, and membership of an inclusive and supportive faith community.
The aim of the study day reported on in this paper was to bring together a diversity of people and perspectives to consider, reflect on, and celebrate some aspects of spirituality and mental health. There is an increasing weight of research evidence showing a positive correlation between physical and mental health and longevity, and membership of an inclusive and supportive faith community.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, psychoses, religions, spirituality;