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Mindshift: a guide to open-minded media coverage of mental health
- Author:
- MIND OUT FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Mind Out for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is for journalists, editors and other people in the media who want to address some of the important challenges and opportunities in reporting mental health issues. Using working examples, practical advice and checklists for action, it aims to help people in the media to break down rather than reinforce stigma, stereotypes and misunderstanding.
Young minds: looking after the mental health of looked after children
- Author:
- TALBOT Ruth
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 127p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This pack looks at work that is addressing the mental health needs of looked-after children, who are a particularly vulnerable group. The training relates to NVQ Caring for Children and Young People Level 3 and NVQ Promoting Independence Level 3.The training pack provides research, training and resource material for people working with and caring for children and young people in public care.
Services to support carers of people with mental health problems: overview report
- Authors:
- ARSKEY Hilary, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The overall aim of the scoping study was to advise the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Research and Development Programme as to what further research should be commissioned in the area of services to support carers, including young carers, of working-age adults and older people with mental health problems. The five key objectives were: to define what was meant by ‘effectiveness’ and ‘cost-effectiveness’ in relation to services to support the target group, recognising that the major stakeholders will have different perspectives on, and interpretations of, these terms; to examine and summarise the evidence from published and grey literature (both UK and international) about effective and cost effective services to support the target group; to ensure that the views of key stakeholders were central to the scoping study and informed its findings and recommendations ; to draw on the evidence from the literature, and the consultation with relevant stakeholders, to identify the key gaps in existing knowledge and, where possible, to describe how these gaps are affecting development of services; and to advise SDO on which areas should be a priority for further research, taking particular note of the requirements of the two NSFs, and the concerns and issues raised by different groups of carers or their representatives.
Out at work: a survey of the experiences of people with mental health problems within the workplace
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on the findings of a survey, this research report looks at real-life experiences of people with mental health problems who are employed. The survey also looks at and reinforces the belief that mental health problems may be caused or made worse by work due to, for example, the stress high expectations or long working hours can bring. Mental Health Action Week, self-complete questionnaires (copy appended) were returned by 411 participants (over 60% female, 14% of black and minority ethnicity, most aged 35-54 years) who had mostly either depression, anxiety, manic depression, schizophrenia or psychosis. Barriers to work included the effects of medication, difficulties associated with losing benefits, and discrimination at interview, short-list or job offer stages. However, many who have succeeded and disclosed their mental health problems reported recent, positive experiences, compared with the past. Participants' views are quoted. Data tables and graphs are presented throughout. Key findings and recommendatons are also provided.
Services to support carers of people with mental health problems: literature review report
- Authors:
- ARKSEY Hilary, et al
- Publisher:
- National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 180p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report provides a scoping review of evaluation studies of interventions and services to support carers of people with mental health problems. It discusses issues relating to the effectiveness and costeffectiveness of interventions and highlights where there are gaps in knowledge. The 204 studies included in the review were diverse and complex. Interventions were classified into 11 different groups: educational interventions of different types (36 per cent); breaks from caring (18 per cent); family interventions (10 per cent); mutual support and social activity groups (9 per cent); telephone and computer-based services (8 per cent); multidimensional approaches to caring interventions (7 per cent); counselling (4 per cent); domiciliary care services (2 per cent); physic al environment (1 per cent); services to support Carers of People with mental health problems; supporting carers through memory clinics (1 per cent); and miscellaneous (4 per cent).
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.
Acute in-patient psychiatric care for young people with severe mental illness: recommendations for commissioners, child and adolescent psychiatrists and general psychiatrists
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 11p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
There is widespread recognition that the care of young people presenting with acute, severe mental illness is often unsatisfactory. This can involve a lack of any suitable bed, undue delay, or an inappropriate admission to an adult or paediatric bed. In fact, in England and Wales, some 600 young people are inappropriately placed each year on adult or paediatric wards. The report notes that the principles of specialist provision for adolescents with serious mental illness should include: prompt admission; a suitably safe and appropriately staffed ward environment (which conforms to the agreed standards); geographical proximity to the family home (enabling frequent visits and appropriate family interventions); and minimisation of health and safety risks from other patients and availability of drugs and alcohol. The key recommendations are that: young people aged under 16 years should not be admitted to adult psychiatric wards; those aged 16 or 17 years can be considered for admission to adult psychiatric wards when no suitable specialist adolescent psychiatric bed is available they have severe mental illness; acceptable standards of care are met; health commissioners need to develop appropriate services inappropriate admissions should be considered as a sign of inadequate resources and treated as an untoward or critical incident. The report concludes that significant investment and development are needed to provide acute in-patient and community services for adolescents with severe mental illness in line with Government priorities.
User involvement in forensic mental health research and development
- Authors:
- FAULKNER Alison, MORRIS Brigid
- Publisher:
- NHS National Programme on Forensic Mental Health Research and Development
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 42p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
Service users are increasingly undertaking research themselves and/or campaigning for greater involvement in research. Some organisations are also undertaking user controlled research where decisions made at the different stages of the research process are in the control of service users themselves and are not just influenced by them. Several units or departments dedicated to user involvement in research have become established in the last few years, and other organisations have established programmes of work dedicated to 'user-led' research (which recognises and supports the potential of service users to undertake their own research). For some time now, the National Programme on Forensic Mental Health R&D has engaged users of mental health services on its Advisory Committee. In April 2002, it invited expressions of interest from people with a track record of research into user involvement, or organisations of service users, to produce an expert paper on user involvement in forensic mental health research. This paper is the result of that process. (Edited publisher abstract)
Outreach across the pond
- Authors:
- WINCHESTER Ruth, LLOYD Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.4.02, 2002, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Assertive outreach is widely acknowledged as the way forward to improve quality of life for people in the community mental health problems. Looks at progress to date in the UK and describes how outreach teams work in the USA.
The role of the Public Guardianship Office in safeguarding vulnerable adults against financial abuse
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, BURNS Sophie, WILSON Barry
- Publisher:
- Public Guardianship Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research project was commissioned by the Public Guardianship Office and took place between 2001 and 2002. Although the research was specifically designed to assist the PGO to better understand and respond to financial abuse in its own context, much of what was revealed has wider implications and applicability.