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- Author:
- HUXLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 5.6.97, 1997, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Argues that current ways of deciding who is severely mentally ill are flawed. Reports on a project which aims to identify all patients who have severe mental illness.
Stress and pressures in mental health social work: the worker speaks
- Authors:
- HUXLEY Peter, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 35(7), October 2005, pp.1063-1079.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Two-thirds of councils with social services responsibilities (CSSRs) took part in a UK survey of mental health social workers. A one in five sample of front line workers was drawn, and 237 respondents completed a questionnaire and diary about their work context and content, and their attitudes to their work, their employer, mental health policy and the place of mental health social work in modernized mental health services. The questions, that called for free-text responses, were completed in detail and at length. This paper reports the results of a qualitative analysis of these responses using NVIVO software. The paper is structured around the themes emerging from the analysis: pressure of work; staffing matters; job satisfaction and well-being; recruitment and retention issues; and being valued. The conclusions are that the social workers value face to face contact with service users, and that their commitment to service users is an important factor in staff retention. The most unsatisfactory aspects of their work context arise from not feeling valued by their employers and wider society, and some of the most satisfactory from the support of colleagues and supervisors. Without attention to these factors, recruitment and retention problems will remain an unresolved issue.
Psychopathology and quality of life among mentally ill patients in the community - British and US samples compared
- Authors:
- WARNER Richard, HUXLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 163, October 1993, pp.505-509.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Sixty-nine mentally ill patients in treatment in an intensive community support system in Boulder, Colorado, were evaluated using the same measures of quality of life and psychopathology as were used in assessing mentally ill patients in hospital and community facilities in Manchester. Psychopathology was greater in the Boulder samples, but quality of life scores were no worse for the American patients. The relationship of these findings to systems of care and availability of psychiatric hospital beds is discussed.
The development of a General Satisfaction Questionnaire for use in programme evaluation
- Authors:
- HUXLEY Peter, MOHAMAD Hadi
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 3(1), 1991, pp.63-74.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Describes the development of a questionnaire for use in mental health programme evaluation. The scale assesses satisfaction with access to services, the acceptability of services, the effectiveness of help given and general satisfaction, permitting comparison between services and between workers. A pilot study and a field trial involving 488 applications are reported.
The probable extent of minor mental illness in the adult clients of social workers : a research note
- Authors:
- HUXLEY Peter, FITZPATRICK Robert
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 14(1), 1984, pp.67-73.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Reports on a small scale pilot study to test the use of a psychiatric screening instrument and social assessments.
SCOPE for social inclusion?
- Authors:
- HUXLEY Peter, et al
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 12(3), August 2008, pp.33-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article sets out to look at social inclusion among users within services, asking the questions is there a general measure of agreement about what social inclusion means to people, and is there an accepted way of measuring these views? This article reports on an initiative funded by the NIHR Research Methods programme, now part of the Health Technology Assessment group at Southampton. Nine focus groups explored about what people understand by 'social inclusion' and concept mapping was used to try and define the term. The research methods are reported here, along with plans for the future.
The impact of community health reform on service users: a cohort study
- Authors:
- BARR Wally, HUXLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(2), March 1999, pp.129-139.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a study designed to assess the impact of recent reforms on service users. The functioning of users of community mental health services in a North Wales town was assessed before the advent of two significant service changes - the establishment of a local Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and the introduction of the main community care reforms in April 1993. Results found the establishment of a CMHT was associated with a temporary fall in social functioning, quality of life and satisfaction with services and there was no evidence to conclude that organisational reforms had led to an improvement in user outcomes in the medium term. Concludes that future mental health reorganisation should be based on the evidence of research which includes an assessment of the impact of reforms on service users.
Regenerating minds
- Authors:
- HUXLEY Peter, EVANS Sherrill
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.11.01, 2001, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors, of the Institute of Psychiatry report on a study of the impact on mental health of an urban regeneration scheme in a deprived part of Manchester.
Outcomes management in mental health: a brief review
- Author:
- HUXLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 7(3), June 1998, pp.273-283.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Reviews 'outcomes management' which, as well as involving the selection of appropriate measures includes a wider range of critical components. The components include gaining staff and patient co-operation; making data gathering simple, efficient and non-duplicative; expertise in analytic procedures; clinical utility; regular feedback mechanisms; and comparable databases for financial and client data. Some practical illustrations are given of the problems of outcome management in practice.
Social inclusion, social quality and mental illness
- Authors:
- HUXLEY Peter, THORNICROFT Graham
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 182(4), April 2003, pp.289-290.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article argues that it is possible to derive two quite different meanings for social exclusion, with different evidential bases, and with different implications for social and clinical action. The first concept of social exclusion, Demos, has implications for citizens' rights; the other, Ethnos, has more-significant implications for the practising clinician. Demos refers to the range of access rights which are offered by citizenship of a given nation state. By contrast, Ethnos refers to a shared cultural community rather than a national community, and to the shared values, identification and sense of cohesion that are engendered by membership of particular social groups and communities. Interventions designed to have an impact upon social inclusion through Demos channels would include enhancing structures that promise and deliver greater access to services. Actions by psychiatrists to achieve service improvement through Ethnos-related measures would, for example, relate to greater emphasis within the psychiatric training curriculum on understanding the interrelationships between ethnic minority culture and the experience of mental illness. There is in turn an interplay between these two domains: Ethnos-related measures are unlikely to be effective without concurrent Demos-related changes.