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An evaluation of the Mencap family adviser service in northern Ireland
- Authors:
- MCKEOWN Paschal, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 7(4), December 2001, pp.273-287.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Mencap (NI) provides and largely funds an 'information and Advice Service' aimed primarily at family carers and people with learning disabilities. This article describes the service and the evaluation process used. Information was obtained from four stakeholder groups, namely service-users; service-funders; the leaders of learning disability teams in Health and Social Services (HSS) Trusts and the chair persons of Mencap local societies. The feature of a good information and advice service are noted, along with the developments required to the existing service, In the main these relate to improved partnership working with statutory agencies and increasing the profile of the service with services, family carers and people with learning disabilities.
Improving services through partnership and consultation: a case example
- Authors:
- CHAPLIN Eddie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 5(2), March 2011, pp.3-8.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
A process of monitoring and auditing care quality is integral to modern health service delivery in order to improve standards and to ensure patient safety and welfare. This paper describes how, following an audit, a specialist mental health assessment and treatment inpatient service for people with intellectual disabilities put in place a process to improve and reprovide the service in partnership with local stakeholders. Concerns were raised by an audit of training and staffing which reported a catastrophic fall in staffing and concluded that without intervention there would be a danger that the service would be unable to provide an acceptable level of service. This paper describes the response to this audit, including the temporary measures that were put in place and the development of a permanent solution. In describing the process the paper highlights the need for transparent and honest working relationships with stakeholders, along with the role of audit and monitoring of quality to determine the health and effectiveness of services. This includes evaluating the continuing need for service and maintaining an agenda driven by needs rather than beds, based on best practice.
"Nothing about us without us": combining professional knowledge with service user experience in training about mental health and learning disabilities
- Authors:
- HENEAGE Celia, MORRIS Di, DHANJAL Kuljinder
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 7(2), Autumn 2010, pp.120-129.
- Publisher:
- South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust and University of Huddersfield
Recent policy documents have proposed that people with learning disabilities should be more fully included in generic mental health care provision. Such services now include the government’s ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) initiative which focuses particularly on the provision of support to people suffering from anxiety and depression. This article reports on a training session delivered to IAPT practitioners based at a university in the south of England by a service user with learning disabilities who had accessed mental health services (one of the authors), together with a clinical psychologist and an honorary assistant psychologist. The practitioners were involved in the provision of time-limited psychological intervention, based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) principles. Four key questions were considered: what is learning disability; what emotional difficulties might they experience in particular; how can CBT be adapted to meet their needs; what information is available about people with learning disabilities and employment? Among the 32 practitioners who attended the training day, 56% had worked with them in a professional context. The practitioners completed pre and post evaluation forms in which they were asked to rate their knowledge about and confidence in working with people with learning disabilities. Following the training participants rated themselves as having significantly greater knowledge and confidence. Many of the qualitative reasons given for these changes mentioned the contribution of the service user. Observations from the facilitators are also presented. It is concluded that joint training needs to be developed and its impact further researched.
Federal confidentiality laws as barriers to communication between the juvenile justice system and the child welfare system
- Authors:
- POLLACK Daniel, FRISINO Joseph M.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy Journal, 4(2), 2005, pp.39-50.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, New York
Adolescents at risk may be served by the following systems: juvenile justice, child welfare, mental health, education, or mental and learning disabilities. Each of these systems has its own points of entry and exit, funding, mandates, history, service orientation and credentialing and, very importantly, overlapping legal and regulatory requirements. This article examines the structural barriers that inhibit cross-system collaboration and communication between these various systems due to the differing legal and regulatory environments inherent in each of these distinct systems.
Primary care and mental health needs
- Author:
- BROOKS David
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 6(3), July 2001, pp.31-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
There is evidence that the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities are not adequately met. Primary health care is seen as the way forward to ensure full consideration of psychosocial factors in the promotion of health care. This article explores how this evidence is being translated through professional and national policy initiatives into innovative mental health of learning disability services that build bridges between primary and specialist services and ensure a comprehensive strategy to meet the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities.
Include us too: developing and improving services to meet the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities; a workbook for commissioners and managers in mental health and learning disability services
- Author:
- COLE Angela
- Publisher:
- University of London. King's College. Institute for Applied Health and Social Po
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 71p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This workbook is for commissioners and managers in mental health and learning disability services. It is about helping people with learning disabilities to maintain good mental health or to have a good lifestyle and good support if they have mental health problems. It is about what commissioners and managers can do to secure positive outcomes for people, outcomes indicated in national policy documents like the National Service Framework for Mental Health, in Valuing People (the White Paper on learning disability service) and in Joint Investment Planning Initiatives.
Seamless service
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.7.02, 2002, p.44.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on integrated mental health services provided by the Somerset Partnership NHS & Social Care Trust, and the benefits which have resulted for both service users and staff.
National service framework for mental health: modern standards and service models for mental health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular accompanying national service framework setting out standards for mental health service provision by health and social services.