International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 5(2 Supplement), July 2009, pp.29-37.
Publisher:
Emerald
Mental health provider services can be part of a socially exclusive culture or can decide to deliver solutions. This paper aims to share leadership lessons by disseminating what has been effective in fostering socially inclusive practice in one local provider context. An introduction to the development of a collaborative strategy for social inclusion in Gloucestershire, England is outlined. Next
Mental health provider services can be part of a socially exclusive culture or can decide to deliver solutions. This paper aims to share leadership lessons by disseminating what has been effective in fostering socially inclusive practice in one local provider context. An introduction to the development of a collaborative strategy for social inclusion in Gloucestershire, England is outlined. Next, the paper will offer examples of practice behaviour that have been championed through an organisational approach to social inclusion. It will be argued that appropriate corporate and practitioner action support a culture of positive change through and with the local community. Finally, the paper will conclude that much can be achieved through the lead role of mental health provider organisations to develop positive practice initiatives and model socially inclusive behaviour.
Subject terms:
leadership, mental health problems, social inclusion;
International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 6(3), September 2010, pp.48-52.
Publisher:
Emerald
Mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, are common in the working population. This article suggests that every organisation should have a comprehensive strategy that promotes mental health, provides effective return to work support and proactively responds to mental ill health in the workplace at an early stage. The article describes the scale of the issue and draws on leadership
Mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, are common in the working population. This article suggests that every organisation should have a comprehensive strategy that promotes mental health, provides effective return to work support and proactively responds to mental ill health in the workplace at an early stage. The article describes the scale of the issue and draws on leadership research to explore how this could be used in the workplace to build a culture able to respond to and manage mental health effectively at work. It outlines how the Centre for Mental Health has addressed some of these issues by working with the Australian charity, beyondblue: the national depression initiative. The Centre has made beyondblue's highly successful National Workplace Programme available in the UK in order to build management competencies so that managers have the skills and knowledge to act.
Subject terms:
leadership, mental health problems, management, staff, training;
International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 5(2 Supplement), July 2009, pp.6-11.
Publisher:
Emerald
...mental health services. However, strong clinical leadership is also required to achieve the change necessary for clinicians to facilitate social inclusion for mental health service users.
Social inclusion is a goal of all users of mental health services. But to be achieved, it must also become an explicit goal for all clinicians. Traditional clinical service systems may inadvertently hinder rather than promote social inclusion. An understanding of the components of service delivery that contribute to this can inform the development of more socially inclusive practices within mental health services. However, strong clinical leadership is also required to achieve the change necessary for clinicians to facilitate social inclusion for mental health service users.
Subject terms:
leadership, mental health problems, mental health services, service users, social inclusion;
International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 3(1), April 2007, pp.26-36.
Publisher:
Emerald
The National Institute of Mental Health England (NIMHE) appointed a Fellow in Ageing and Mental Health to take on a national leadership role for a three-year period from 2003 to 2006. Starting from a position where the NIMHE website could only address older adult issues under social exclusion, a group of committed individuals in a range of organisations came together and a regional and national...
The National Institute of Mental Health England (NIMHE) appointed a Fellow in Ageing and Mental Health to take on a national leadership role for a three-year period from 2003 to 2006. Starting from a position where the NIMHE website could only address older adult issues under social exclusion, a group of committed individuals in a range of organisations came together and a regional and national work programme in older people's mental health was developed. This article offers reflections on the issues raised during the Fellowship in respect of older people's mental health services and this Fellowship model of leadership.
Subject terms:
leadership, mental health problems, mental health services, models, older people;
International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 5(4), December 2009, pp.34-43.
Publisher:
Emerald
The article, for the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership, which works to improve mental health services by supporting innovative leadership, is written by an author who experienced severe mental health problems and used mental health services as a young woman, went on to establish in the 1990’s a user/survivor movement protesting at the system’s failures to help (or actually...
The article, for the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership, which works to improve mental health services by supporting innovative leadership, is written by an author who experienced severe mental health problems and used mental health services as a young woman, went on to establish in the 1990’s a user/survivor movement protesting at the system’s failures to help (or actually harming) users and focussing on empowerment and equality, was a mental health commissioner and is now an international consultant in mental health problems and services. Leadership, among people with lived experiences of mental health problems (survivors) could be better developed to help themselves and others currently experiencing mental health problems, at service and systemic levels. Critiques of conventional models of leadership, in terms of leaders being inherently good, denial of darker forces of greed and power at play, assumption of heroic responsibility all problems, lack of ability to change or critique themselves, and considering transactional and transformational approaches, may provide a framework upon which survivors can build a leadership model. The new roles, practices and competencies of user/survivor leaders will be dependent on philosophical, psychological, political and practical (physical) shifts in current mental health service systems for their acceptance.
Subject terms:
leadership, mental health problems, service users, survivors, user participation, empowerment, equal opportunities;
Housing Care and Support, 11(1), July 2008, pp.20-25.
Publisher:
Emerald
...the principles and mechanisms of the new joint commissioning culture create more opportunities for providers to articulate the needs of the client group served, and to assert the case for more joined-up and responsive services. This may require different skills and new styles of leadership at local level, and providers who have become adept at being competitors may need to re-discover the skills of partnership
The new local government performance framework, in combination with the move to greater personalisation in services, creates a very new funding environment for housing with care and support. From the Public Service Agreement (PSA) on achieving settled accommodation for individuals at risk of exclusion, through to the impact of local joint strategic needs assessments and individual budgets, the principles and mechanisms of the new joint commissioning culture create more opportunities for providers to articulate the needs of the client group served, and to assert the case for more joined-up and responsive services. This may require different skills and new styles of leadership at local level, and providers who have become adept at being competitors may need to re-discover the skills of partnership. Meanwhile, new social exclusion policy frameworks are emerging for supported accommodation, which can support moves way from institutional care for those with mental health problems. This author discusses this changing environment.
Child and Family Social Work, 10(3), August 2005, pp.217-228.
Publisher:
Wiley
Multidisciplinary intervention approaches are needed for meeting service needs for families in which substance abuse and mental health disorders may be interfering with child-rearing. Experiences from the Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) initiative, a 12-site national collaborative investigation of integrating behavioural health services in early childhood and primary health care service settings for children aged 05 years and their families and caregivers, are described. This 4-year applied research initiative was co-funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services and Casey Family Programs, a private operating foundation. SESS, which was developed and implemented in 12 geographically and culturally diverse cities in the USA during 19972001, encouraged federal, state, and local public/private partnerships. Opportunities and challenges in using an inclusive, consensus-based, stakeholder model to maximize study relevance and utility for researchers, practitioners, and fiscal sponsors are discussed, and lessons for multidisciplinary, multisite research collaborations are identified.
Multidisciplinary intervention approaches are needed for meeting service needs for families in which substance abuse and mental health disorders may be interfering with child-rearing. Experiences from the Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) initiative, a 12-site national collaborative investigation of integrating behavioural health services in early childhood and primary health care service settings for children aged 05 years and their families and caregivers, are described. This 4-year applied research initiative was co-funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services and Casey Family Programs, a private operating foundation. SESS, which was developed and implemented in 12 geographically and culturally diverse cities in the USA during 19972001, encouraged federal, state, and local public/private partnerships. Opportunities and challenges in using an inclusive, consensus-based, stakeholder model to maximize study relevance and utility for researchers, practitioners, and fiscal sponsors are discussed, and lessons for multidisciplinary, multisite research collaborations are identified.
Reports on the experiences of a user-led group in undertaking a small piece of mental health services research, to highlight the benefits and barriers to user leadership in the area of research. The study aimed to explore the bridges and barriers to user and care participation in care planning. Looks at: formulating the research question; searching the literature; financing the research
Reports on the experiences of a user-led group in undertaking a small piece of mental health services research, to highlight the benefits and barriers to user leadership in the area of research. The study aimed to explore the bridges and barriers to user and care participation in care planning. Looks at: formulating the research question; searching the literature; financing the research; disseminating findings and control and ownership.
Subject terms:
leadership, mental health problems, participatory research, research methods, user participation, care planning;
Mental Health Religion and Culture, 8(1), March 2005, pp.35-47.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Place of publication:
Philadelphia, USA
Coping studies show that people often involve God in coping. Attachment studies suggest this should be particularly true for people with an insecure history, who use God as a surrogate figure to regulate distress (compensation hypothesis). The present questionnaire study is the first investigation of perceived attachment history and religious coping. It was tested if an insecure history is linked to involving God in coping, if parental religiousness moderates the association, and if religious coping mediates the link between an insecure history and compensatory religiosity characteristics. Results from 197 participants, from different religious and non-religious groups in the central parts of Sweden, supported the compensation hypothesis (i.e., an insecure history was linked to involving God). This support was moderated by parental religiousness. At low parental religiousness, religious coping mediated the association between an insecure history and compensatory religiosity characteristics. The Discussion proposes further cross-fertilization of attachment and religious coping.
Coping studies show that people often involve God in coping. Attachment studies suggest this should be particularly true for people with an insecure history, who use God as a surrogate figure to regulate distress (compensation hypothesis). The present questionnaire study is the first investigation of perceived attachment history and religious coping. It was tested if an insecure history is linked to involving God in coping, if parental religiousness moderates the association, and if religious coping mediates the link between an insecure history and compensatory religiosity characteristics. Results from 197 participants, from different religious and non-religious groups in the central parts of Sweden, supported the compensation hypothesis (i.e., an insecure history was linked to involving God). This support was moderated by parental religiousness. At low parental religiousness, religious coping mediated the association between an insecure history and compensatory religiosity characteristics. The Discussion proposes further cross-fertilization of attachment and religious coping.
Subject terms:
leadership, mental health problems, parents, religions, resilience, attachment;
This guide explores what’s stopping people from attempting co-production and what can help, using the experience of people involved in co-production in different settings across England. It shares learning about: where and how things are working well, the features of different models of co-production, leadership and culture change, how co-production contributes to delivering better experiences
(Edited publisher abstract)
This guide explores what’s stopping people from attempting co-production and what can help, using the experience of people involved in co-production in different settings across England. It shares learning about: where and how things are working well, the features of different models of co-production, leadership and culture change, how co-production contributes to delivering better experiences and outcomes for people with mental health conditions, and others’ views of hurdles and how to overcome them. The guide draws on existing guides and frameworks and examples from practice. The guide, jointly commissioned with the National Development Teams, aims to help people who commission, design or deliver mental health services to understand co-production better and reflect on their practice.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
co-production, mental health services, good practice, models, case studies, organisational culture, leadership, mental health problems;