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Breaking the circles of fear: a review of the relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean communities
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 102p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The key findings of this report include the following. Mainstream services are experienced as inhumane unhelpful and inappropriate by black people. The care pathways are problematic. Primary care is limited and community based crisis care is lacking. There is a divergence in professional and lay discourse about mental illness. Service user, family and carer involvement is lacking. Black led initiatives are not valued. The feeling of stigma is wide spread.
The national service framework for mental health: an executive briefing
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Critically examines seven standards proposed by the National Service Framework for Mental Health covering, mental health promotion, primary care and access to services, effective services for severe mental illnesses, caring for carers, and preventing suicide.
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.
Working for excellence in mental health services: a complete set of all the current executive briefings
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- London
Eleven briefing papers: keys to engagement, review of services; open all hours, twenty four hour response for emergencies; implications of the consultation paper 'partnership in action'; acute problems; briefing on the new mental health strategy; a first class mental health service; conclusions of the first annual mental health forum; national service framework for mental health; taking your partners, using interagency cooperation; finding and keeping, review of recruitment and retention; implications of the NHS plan.