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How can we make mental health education work?
- Authors:
- RETHINK, INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY
- Publisher:
- Rethink; Institute of Psychiatry
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report has been written for people interested in breaking down stigma and discrimination attached to mental ill-health. It provides an overview of some of the steps to consider when setting up an anti-discrimination programme and reports on the success of one such project. Section 1 explores "stigma busting" approaches. Section 2 describes Kent Mental Health Awareness in Action project which involved the Institute of Psychiatry, World Psychiatric Association, and two local awareness groups. Section 3 is an evaluation of the Kent Workshop Programme. The report concludes with recommendations for how mental health education can be made to work.
Moving forward: living life with mental health problems: a guide for black and minority ethnic communities
- Author:
- RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
As many as 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year. If you are from a black and minority ethnic (BME) group there are specific issues which may affect you. This booklet provides basic information on the specific issues you may face, as well as more general information on topics such as medication, physical health, alternative treatments and drugs and alcohol. It also includes a list of services specifically for BME groups, and details of where to get more information on any of the issues which may affect you.
Reaching people early: a status report received by people with severe mental illness and their informal carers
- Author:
- RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a new strand of work focussing on enabling people affected by severe mental illness and their carers to find appropriate help as quickly as possible. The main aims of the work are: to raise awareness of the benefits of seeking help early; providing an easy access to help and information; Working with primary care providers (including GPs and NHS Direct) to ensure appropriate responses; and to develop Rethink's role in Early Intervention teams and play a part in offering recovery-oriented solutions through our services.
Lost and found: voices from the forgotten generation
- Author:
- RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
Mental health has for decades been treated asthe “Cinderella service,” though for the past six years, it has sat alongside cardiac care and cancer as one of the government’s three health priorities. Its priority status has led to a period of dramatic reform and, in certain areas, dramatic investment. However, this period of reform has bypassed many people. The reform process has focused predominately on crisis support but not on those who have been within the mental health system for some years. This campaign highlights the needs of a group of people called the ‘forgotten generation’. These are people with severe mental illness living in the community who have been largely forgotten by mainstream mental health services. For the most part, these are the people who have lived with a severe mental illness for many years, passing through and surviving a series of early crises, feeling rejected by society and who now live their lives without the all-round help and support that would allow them to raise their quality of life.
Just one per cent: the experiences of people using mental health services
- Authors:
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
Rethink regularly carries out social survey research to monitor expert opinion on standards of mental health care. The recent Our Point of View survey, upon which this report is based, asked are things getting better for the people who use mental health services, their families and friends at the beginning of the 21st Century in Britain? This report looks at what service users want in order to feel fully represented.
Behind closed doors: acute mental health care in the UK: the current state and future vision of acute mental health care in the UK
- Authors:
- RETHINK, et al
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report reveals that, despite some 650 national strategies, guidelines, frameworks and protocols issued by the government over the last five years, much still needs to be done to improve the harrowing conditions under which some of society’s most vulnerable people are treated. The report found that there are too many people in our psychiatric units, particularly those – like the psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs), that work with those most severely ill. The report shows, that there is a crisis in psychiatric in-patient care with wards over-crowded, treatment taking place in “bleakness and squalor” and staff left feeling demoralised and unsupported. The report also highlights developments that may improve this situation.