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London's prison mental health services: a review
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 27p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
London’s prisons are facing up to the significant challenges of offering the right support to prisoners with mental health problems.This policy paper shows that seven of London’s eight prisons now have specialist inreach teams for people with severe and enduring mental health problems. But more service improvement is needed before the complex needs of prisoners with mental health problems can be fully addressed. The report makes recommendations for improvement and ways that the primary care trusts and London’s prisons can work together to make more progress.
Mental health and employment
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 7p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is estimated that three in ten employees will experience some kind of mental health problem in any one year. Many people find it difficult to remain in employment and face isolation and discrimination in their workplaces. This briefing paper looks at the barriers to employment for people with common and severe mental health problems and at the positive initiatives that are being undertaken by the public, voluntary and commercial sectors to help them find and sustain work. It highlights the importance of employment as part of the recovery from and prevention of mental health problems.
Mental health care in prisons
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 7p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The quality of mental health care available in our prisons is frequently poor. This briefing paper provides an overview of the mental health care available in prisons. It examines how mental health problems are identified in prison, how prison inreach teams work, transfers to NHS care, alternatives to prison, and what care is available to prisoners after their release.
Promoting the public's mental health: a changing mentality: conference report: Tuesday 20th September 2005, Paragon Hotel, Birmingham
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The use of emotions and labelling has been shown to encourage people to consider their own feelings and it challenges potential stereotypes which they may hold. It promotes mental health as a fact of life, something common to us all as human beings. It normalises mental health issues and therefore can help to shift attitudes and challenge stigma and discrimination. This juxtaposition of feelings/labels against an image has proven to be effective and engaging with all age groups and it is a treatment that was welcomed by those who have experienced mental health problems as well as those working in mental health and of course the target audience, the general public.
First steps to work: a study at Broadmoor Hospital
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Experience of real work can help people in Broadmoor to get back their self-esteem and prepare for life in the community. First Steps to Work shows that patients at the special hospital gained in skills and confidence after participating in a business run for and by patients and supported by the First Step Trust. The study concludes that people with mental health problems in even the most secure hospitals and prisons should have the opportunity to do real work. It not only helps them to get ready for life in the community but assists in their recovery from mental ill health by boosting their self-esteem and increases their ability to take responsibility for themselves and others and to work as a member of a team.
An evaluation of mental health service user involvement in the re-commissioning of day and vocational services
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 37p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a Sainsbury Centre evaluation report on the process of involving people who use services in the re-commissioning of their day and vocational services. This report provides insight into what worked during re-commissioning day and vocational services, and should help anyone wishing to embark on the re-commissioning of day and vocational services in their own area. The service users remit included: contributing to the design of the review; conducting research including interviews with other service users; contributing to decisions on service redesign in light of the review findings; having input into the development of service specifications for the new configuration; participating in selecting future providers through the tendering process. This report examines feature that worked well with the service users, and featured that did not work so well, and makes suggestions for future service user involvement, such as greater clarity of purpose, more attention to detail, more openness, and issues relating to conflict management and resolution.
Work and wellbeing: developing primary mental health care services
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Work and Wellbeing argues that the road to long-term unemployment for people with depression begins in the GP surgery with the writing of a sick note. While this may be the right thing at the time, if the person is not properly supported to get back to work as early as possible, they can find themselves excluded from their workplace and forgotten by their colleagues. Before long, they are unemployed and living on benefits. Work and Wellbeing calls for GPs to be encouraged through their contract to provide work-focused help for people signed off sick with depression. This would include the timely provision of proven psychological therapies such as CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) and referral to employment advisors where necessary. It argues that practices should be able to make local agreements with other services to support patients back to work. This would involve local authorities and voluntary organisations to have a say in the commissioning process at practice level.
Finding and keeping: review of recruitment and retention in the mental health workforce
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 136p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report aims to describe and analyse difficulties in recruiting and retaining mental health staff and to identify practicable and sustainable ways of addressing these difficulties. It presents conclusions from a review carried out by staff from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and external consultants, and involved desk-based research and literature reviews on topics such as stocks and flows in the mental health workforce, problems with recruitment and retention, and possible solutions; advice from expert consultants; and fieldwork using focus group discussions with professional staff and managers. Staff groups covered are: psychiatrists, mental health nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists and occupational therapists.