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Workplace interventions for people with common mental health problems: evidence review and recommendations
- Author:
- BRITISH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- British Occupational Health Research Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 96p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This systematic review is designed to provide evidence-based answers to key questions related to mental ill health in the workplace. It is intended to assist managers, occupational health professionals and other interested parties in making management decisions and offering advice in the confidence that they are based on the most robust evidence available. It categorises common mental health problems as those that: occur most frequently and are more prevalent; are mostly successfully treated in primary rather than secondary care settings; and are least disabling in terms of stigmatising attitudes and discriminatory behaviour.
Compulsory community and involuntary outpatient treatment for people with severe mental disorders: reivew
- Authors:
- KISLEY S., CAMPBELL L.A., PRESTON N.
- Publisher:
- Wiley / Cochrane Collaboration
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The authors examined the effectiveness of compulsory community treatment for people with severe mental illness through a systematic review of all relevant randomised controlled clinical trials. Only two relevant trials were found and these provided little evidence of efficacy on any outcomes such as health service use, social functioning, mental state, quality of life or satisfaction with care. No data were available for cost and unclear presentation of data made it impossible to assess the effect on mental state and most aspects of satisfaction with care. In terms of numbers needed to treat, it would take 85 outpatient commitment orders to prevent one readmission, 27 to prevent one episode of homelessness and 238 to prevent one arrest.
Don't seize the day hospital! Recent research on the effectiveness of day hospitals for older people with mental health problems
- Authors:
- HOE Juanita, ASHAYE Kunle, ORRELL Martin
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 20(7), July 2005, pp.694-698.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Day hospital (DH) care remains a core component of mental health services for older people. However, there has been an ongoing debate about the effectiveness and value for money of DHs in comparison to day centres (DC). This article reviews recent research on the effectiveness of day hospitals for older people with mental health problems. A systematic search of relevant research literature over the last decade using the major electronic healthcare databases examining the quality and effectiveness of mental health DHs for older people. In the last decade the evidence for the effectiveness of DHs has continued to increase, but still lags behind research on DHs in general adult psychiatry and geriatric medicine. The review found that DHs appear effective at assessing and meeting needs and that a systematic approach to evaluating quality can be used to improve services. Recent research supports the effectiveness of day hospitals, but further studies are needed in order to provide a more robust evidence base.
Implementation research: a synthesis of the literature
- Authors:
- FIXSEN Dean L., et al
- Publisher:
- University of South Florida. National Implementation Research Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 119p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Tampa, FL
Looks at a variety of implementation studies from agriculture, mental health, medicine, manufacturing, and other fields to find evidence of successful implementation. The monograph determines what these successes have in common, and how lessons can be applied to the human services fields, including mental health, social services, juvenile justice, education, early childhood education, employment services, and substance abuse prevention and treatment.
On the inside: a narrative review of mental health inpatient services
- Authors:
- GLASBY Jon, LESTER Helen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 35(6), September 2005, pp.863-879.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper describes and discusses the results of a narrative review of inpatient mental health services in the UK. Four main themes emerge from the review: the growing pressure on inpatient hospital services; the negative experience of inpatient services reported by many service users; the problematic nature of hospital discharge; and possible alternatives to hospital admission. This review also suggests that a failure to recognize and act on what appears to be happening in hospitals could result in inpatient care once again being subject to the scrutiny and criticism that cast a shadow over psychiatric services in the 1960s and 1970s. To stop this happening, current government policy is right to focus attention back onto acute care through new guidance and by commissioning research. However, changes also need to take place at a practice level so that front line workers are familiar with conditions in local acute services and can challenge unacceptable behaviour/services in support of their service users. With current changes in the make-up of local mental health services and a greater emphasis on partnership working between health and social care, it may be that social care practitioners can do this not only from the outside, but increasingly ‘on the inside’ (from within integrated health and social care organizations).
Empirically supported family and peer interventions for dual disorders
- Author:
- MOORE Barbara C.
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 15(4), July 2005, pp.231-245.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article selectively reviews evidence-based family and peer interventions for co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. Although few researchers have specifically investigated family interventions for dual disorders, considerable empirical evidence exists for the effectiveness of such interventions in treating each of the two disorders separately. Quality of supporting research is examined and implications for dual disorders are explored. Findings from multiple studies are that inclusion of families in treatment helps to engage treatment-resistant individuals, promotes treatment adherence and psychiatric stability, reduces relapse, reduces alcohol and illicit drug use, and improves well-being of clients and family members. Research and treatment implications are discussed with suggestions for integration of approaches derived from the two historically separate fields.
Young people, gender and suicide: a review of research on the social context
- Authors:
- SMALLEY Nina, SCOURFIELD Jonathan, GREENLAND Katy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 5(2), August 2005, pp.133-154.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The paper reviews some recent research on the social context of suicide in young people, with particular reference to evidence about the gendered character of suicidal behaviour. It does not constitute a systematic review of relevant literature, but is informed by thorough searching. Key messages from the research reviewed are presented in relation to some specific social domains. These are employment, social cohesion and social comparison, mental illness, family and relationships, sexual orientation and help-seeking. There is some discussion in the article of the implications of this research for suicide prevention, both in terms of policy and in terms of the practices of individual social workers.