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Barriers and solutions in the workplace: raising employment rates for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems
- Authors:
- REMPLOY, ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
- Publisher:
- Remploy
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
The RADAR/Remploy Task Force was been set up to find new ways of enabling people with learning disabilities and mental health issues to find jobs. This report represents the accumulation of six months analysis. It critically analyses both barriers and solutions across personal, system and environmental dimensions for both client groups. It draws on evidence from 97 case studies across Taskforce members as well as other specific reports and wider research in the field. In addition the report contains ‘good practice templates’ for both client groups that can be applied to a variety of employment related settings.
Smoke-free legislation and mental health units: the challenges ahead
- Author:
- JOCHELSON Karen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 189(6), December 2006, pp.479-480.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Under the proposed English Health Act regulations most mental health units will have to be smoke-free, although patients will be able to smoke outside. Implementing the regulations will be challenging but may also be an opportunity for a more holistic approach focusing on the physical and psychological health of patients.
Up for the junction
- Author:
- WALKER Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, August 2006, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Many young people with mental health problems, that aren't considered to be critical, fall through the system. This article describes the work of 'The Junction' in Essex. The initiative, developed by Mind, offers social workers a place where they can use their skills and experience to undertake important work or refer young people to when local authority constraints prevent them engaging in therapeutic work they feel is necessary.
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.
Inspection of mental health services: London Borough of Haringey: February 2006
- Authors:
- CLARK Jan, RIX Alison, WHITEHEAD Ian
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection. East Midlands Region
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 89p.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
Voyage on a painted sea
- Authors:
- TEALL Wendy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 10(4), November 2006, pp.7-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The authors describe a project at Manchester University's Whitworth Art Gallery, run by Start (part of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust), which aimed to improve mental health and well-being of service users. Start worked with gallery staff to design an intensive course focused around a painting. In the following weeks the course explored art history, creative writing, discussion and practical art sessions. Many service users found the course had raised their confidence levels.
Learning together
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, November 2006, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author visits the NIMHE award-winning Garage Project in Mirfield. The project, core-funded by South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust and Kirklees Social Services, uses computers to engage with people with mental health problems and help them towards training or employment.
Barriers to mental healthcare for psychiatrists
- Authors:
- WHITE Alfred, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 30(10), October 2006, pp.382-384.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
The aim was to determine the opinions of psychiatrists on mental illness among themselves and their colleagues a postal survey was conducted across the West Midlands. Most psychiatrists (319/370, 86.2%) would be reluctant to disclose mental illness to colleagues or professional organisations (323/370, 87.3%). Their choices regarding disclosure and treatment would be influenced by issues of confidentiality (n=245, 66%), stigma (n=83, 22%) and career implications (n=128, 35%) rather than quality of care (n=60, 16%). The stigma associated with mental illness remains prevalent among the psychiatric profession and may prevent those affected from seeking adequate treatment and support. Appropriate, confidential specialist psychiatric services should be provided for this vulnerable group, and for doctors as a whole, to ensure that their needs, and by extension those of their patients, are met.
A picture of health
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.10.06, 2006, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article explores the role of a Start Manchester project in using art as therapy for people with mental health needs. The article focuses on an art appreciation project which included discussion, art history, art criticism, practical art, and creative writing. An exhibition of the work at the end of the course proved so successful that the gallery requested an extension
Inspection of mental health services: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham: February 2006
- Authors:
- MIDDLETON Laura, et al
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection. North West
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester