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Review of national strategies for suicide prevention: summary
- Author:
- McCOLLAM Allyson
- Publisher:
- Choose Life
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 5p.
Scottish Executive’s Mental Health Research Team on behalf of the National Programme for Mental Health and Well Being commissioned a consortium of researchers to conduct an evaluation of Choose Life Choose Life1, the national strategy and action plan to prevent suicide in Scotland. This work is a component of that evaluation.
Using a wider lens-focusing on social inclusion: the emerging mental health services development agenda in Scotland
- Authors:
- HENDERSON Gregor, McCOLLAM Allyson
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 5(1), March 2000, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The authors, Director and Deputy Director of the Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health Services, describe their work and how they hope it will enables agencies within Scotland to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Mental health and wellbeing at primary care level in Scotland: a vision for community health partnerships
- Authors:
- MAXWELL Margaret, McCOLLAM Allyson
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 9(4), December 2004, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The substantial input from primary care in managing the majority of mental health problems, estimated as 90 percent of care being provided in primary care, is widely recognised. Addresses the policy and practice context and opportunities presented by the new structure in Scotland based around community health partnerships (CHPs). Concludes that mental health promotion and mental illness prevention are core tasks for CHPs.
Shift keys
- Authors:
- McCOLLAM Allyson, THOM David
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 16.1.97, 1997, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The authors argue that Trusts must address the training and support needs of nursing staff when shifting mental health services into the community.
Breaking the cycle of injustice
- Authors:
- MYERS Fiona, McCOLLAM Allyson, WHITEHOUSE Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2006, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
One of the objectives of current social policy in Scotland is to ‘close the opportunity gap’. This article reviews current research to show how social injustice – in the form of poverty, deprivation, discrimination and inequality – not only negatively affect mental health and well-being but also hinder recovery from mental illness. The article concludes by looking at the Scottish Executive’s equalities strategy which aims to uncouple these links both by mainstreaming mental health improvement goals in policies and practices aimed at achieving social justice and equality, and by mainstreaming equalities goals within mental health policies and practices.