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A collaborative approach to meeting the needs of adolescent offenders with complex needs in custodial settings: an 18-month cohort study
- Authors:
- RYAN Tony, MITCHELL Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (The), 22(3), June 2011, pp.437-454.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Previous research has indicated that adolescent offenders have high levels of mental health problems. Although mental health services are provided within all Young Offender Institution (YOIs), these services can find it difficult to meet the needs of young offenders whose mental health needs are compounded and inextricably linked with their behaviours. This study took place in a YOI in North-West England which had undergone a radical overhaul of the mental health services including the establishment of a Complex Needs Unit to meet the needs of the young people who could not be cared for effectively on the main residential wards. The unit provides individualised, highly structured and consistent care to up to 10 young people. It uses a multi-agency approach in which prison officers work in collaboration with mental health staff. This article describes the aims of the unit and reports on a study to evaluate its effectiveness. Data was collected on the first 41 admissions to the unit between February 2008 and July 2009. The results indicate that the young people on the unit derived significant benefit from the intensive and highly structured regime, although many were unable to successfully reintegrate. This collaborative approach between custody staff and mental health professionals can significant improve behavioural and social functioning for young offenders with multiple and complex needs.
Working with the independent sector and managing out of area treatments
- Authors:
- RYAN Tony, RAYNE Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 12(2), June 2007, pp.25-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Successive government policies over the past 15 years have encouraged the growth of the independent sector (not for profit and for profit) and its involvement in the delivery of mental health care. Not for profit and for profit sectors are currently working both alongside and in competition with NHS provider organisations. How all parts of the service system interconnect will in future be critical for service users and carers. This paper describes the developmental approach in response to many of these issues by agencies in the West Midlands.
Mental health legislation: a time to act?
- Authors:
- RYAN Tony, HARDY Les
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(2), December 1996, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Argues that new legislation could include supervision registers but might also give service users new rights to community-based services in their areas.
Exploring the risk management strategies of informal carers of mental health service users
- Author:
- RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 11(1), February 2002, pp.17-25.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the findings of an exploratory study examining the risk management strategies of informal carers of mental health service users. Thirteen carers from two cities were interviewed in depth using a semi-structured interview schedule. Participants had been informal carers between four and 20 years and supported users with formal diagnoses of schizophrenia, manic depression and depression. A grounded theory approach was followed to collect and examine data and to test the resulting models of risk management. Three models of risk management are discussed and relate to a wide range of risks posed and faced by the carers' users. The results of this study are compared with those of an earlier study into the risk management strategies of 22 service users with similarities and differences highlighted.
Do you see what I see?
- Author:
- RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 94, November 1998, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- MIND
When it comes to perceptions of risk, research has shown that it's all in the eye of the beholder. Reports on the results of a survey, of those within the mental health arena, to investigate how risks were perceived. Discusses the results in relation to gender, professional differences and stakeholder differences.
A survey of policy and practice on expenses and other payments to mental health service users and carers participating in service development
- Authors:
- RYAN Tony, BAMBER Carey
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 11(6), December 2002, pp.635-644.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article reports a survey of 75 organisations commissioning and providing secondary mental health services regarding their policies and practice in respect of payment to mental health services users and informal carers for expenses and their time when participating in the design, development, delivery and monitoring of services. A wide range of statutory and non-statutory organisations was invited to participate. Results indicate that there is a considerable desire to develop practice in this area and that the issue of payments is viewed as important in addressing user and carer participation. Significantly, many organisations employed unwritten policies based on custom and practice and were most likely to relate to basic expenses payments rather than payments for time given. A small number of organisations had developed robust policies and these usually included payment for time as well as expenses payments.
Developing 24-hour services
- Authors:
- RYAN Tony, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 6(1), March 2001, pp.6-10.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
This article reviews models of crisis services in mental health and argues that discrete crisis services should be regarded as specific elements of a system-wide approach to crisis rather that the sole specialised response.