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Working together to improve access to learning
- Author:
- JAMES Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 11(1), February 2007, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author outlines a national partnership project to promote and facilitate access to adult education for people with mental health problems. Those working in the partnership are the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE), the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
Securing better mental health for older adults
- Authors:
- PHILP Ian, APPLEBY Louis
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document marks the start of a new initiative and provides a vision for how all mainstream and specialist health and social care services should work together to secure better mental health services for older people.This is the first time that the mental health and older people's divisions have adopted such a strategic approach in order to influence change and improve services for older people with mental illness.
Housing support for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 58, 2004, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at how the provision of suitable housing for people with mental health problems can be improved.
Making partnership work: a case study of the implementation of a joint funding pilot partnership policy
- Author:
- PAYNE John
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. School of Advanced Urban Studies
- Publication year:
- 1984
- Pagination:
- 90p.+appendices, maps.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The liaison worker's tale
- Author:
- WALKER Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 14(1), 2011, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper presents a first person account of someone in the role of Mental Health and Housing Liaison Officer. The role involves dealing with any housing related issues that mental health service users may be experiencing, and involves working with people who are receiving services from inpatient, primary and secondary mental health services. The post is jointly funded by the Council and the Primary Care Trust (PCT). The paper offers insight into a day in the life of a liaison worker, including information about how they work and communicate with clients and their various different situations. It demonstrates that communication is central to delivering good and appropriate services for clients. It argues that joint working between housing and mental health needs to become the norm.
How POPP pilots are proving their worth
- Author:
- NORRIS Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Commissioning News, 10, December 2008, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- CJ Wellings Ltd
Camden is one of 29 Partnerships for Older People (POPP) pilot sites which have received government money to test out 245 projects to improve care of older people. This article looks at progress in Camden, the types of projects they are running under the 'Community Interventions for Older People with Mental Health Needs' and the early findings from the national evaluation.
Community Mental Health Teams' perspectives on providing care for deaf people with severe mental illness
- Authors:
- THOMAS Catherine, CROMWELL Jim, MILLER Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 15(3), June 2006, pp.301-313.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Deaf sign language users encounter many barriers to accessing local services and receiving appropriate help and treatment. As a result Deaf 1 people with serious mental illness can fall through the net of service provision. The aim was to identify and explore the issues involved in providing care for Deaf people with serious mental health problems from the perspective of community mental health teams (CMHT). Eight focus groups were used to explore perceptions and experiences of providing care for this population. Discussions were recorded and transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Data analysis was supported by ATLAS-ti, (Scientific Software Development, 1997) a software package for coding and organising qualitative data. Five key themes were identified: (1) CMHT lack of skills/knowledge/resources, (2) Communication difficulties, (3) Distance of specialist Deaf services, (4) Joint working between CMHT and specialist Deaf services, and (5) Issues specific to Deaf patients. Findings are discussed in the context of implications for improving the access and provision of care for Deaf people with severe mental illness. CMHTs frequently feel ill equipped to provide care for Deaf patients with severe mental illness. Implications require ongoing attention to ensure a more collaborative and efficient continuity of care.
Mind over matter: improving media reporting of mental health
- Author:
- SHIFT
- Publisher:
- Shift
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report makes a series of recommendations on how to improve media reporting. It calls on government, the media and the mental health sector to work together to improve coverage, particularly of severe mental health problems. The publication is intended to kick-start a debate in the media about the reporting of mental health.
No longer a one-man job? On day activities in mental health care in Sweden
- Authors:
- HANSSON J-H., TENGVALD K.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 2(4), October 1993, pp.186-196.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Swedish psychiatry is organisationally in line with the international development of closing down the old large mental hospitals. As in other countries, problems of provision of care for severely mentally ill people can be observed. An organisationally new field focusing on the activities of daily living is developing, however. This was surveyed nationally in Spring 1991 and parts of these results are presented and discussed. The field is characterized by profound uncertainty manifested in the fact that psychiatry is no longer doing the work alone. Local social services take on a growing responsibility trying to make claims on how to define the work even if psychiatry is dominant, both in organisational and discursive power. Promising characteristics in joint venture units set up between psychiatry and local social services opens up for discussions on who, in what ways and with what means these new forms of care are going to be pursued.
Think child, think parent, think family: a briefing for senior managers
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This ‘At a glance’ summary is aimed at senior managers and presents key recommendations from the SCIE guide 'Think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare'. The summary outlines the context, including lack of coordination of services, challenges for staff, financial restrictions and the growing change in policy direction towards supporting families and improving child health and wellbeing. It then makes key recommendations to improve services including taking a strategic multi-agency approach, leading cultural change, involving people who use services, embedding the whole-family approaches into quality systems, improving staff skills and knowledge and ensuring that information is gathered and made accessible. Experience at a number of pilot sites in local authorities in England and Northern Ireland highlights the importance of senior management involvement to the success of this approach.