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The use of Mental Health Review Tribunals by older people
- Author:
- DWYER Sandra
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 15(3), 2003, pp.51-60.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Focuses on the proportion of older people who are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 who make applications to tribunals in comparison to younger adults. Some implications for social work practice are explored, both under current legislation, and in the context of legislative reform.
Building blocks
- Author:
- INMAN Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.9.03, 2003, pp.59-60.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how people with mental health problems often have trouble obtaining good quality housing.
You cannot be serious: a guide to involving volunteers with mental health problems
- Author:
- CLARK Sherry
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Volunteering
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide provides support and advice for people committed to making their organisations more socially inclusive. Based on a two year project investigating some of the challenges facing people with mental health problems in accessing volunteering opportunities.
Terms of engagement: reaching hard to reach adolescents
- Author:
- GRIFFITHS Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 62, January 2003, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Engaging adolescents in therapeutic work is a challenge for many services. Looks at what can be learned from published research on engagement.
A study of treatment outcomes from atypical antipsychotic medications in the Virginia public system of community care
- Authors:
- ZIEGLER David M., PEACHY Thomas J.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 39(2), April 2003, pp.169-182.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This retrospective study examines treatment outcomes associated with atypical antipsychotic medications in areas of 1) treatment response; 2) employment; 3) living arrangements; and 4) hospitalization rates. The study included a random sample of adults with serious mental illness, who participated in treatment for at least 36 months. Study results suggest that the utilization of these medications, despite higher costs, promote cost savings of public dollars through reduced hospitalization and enhanced functioning/outcomes. The study results proved to be very vital to the Virginia State Legislature and key system policy makers and funding authorities, as important actions were taken to enhance consumer access to these important medications and essential services.
Service for all: making it happen; a report from the Service for All conference held on 18 June 2003 in Edinburgh
- Author:
- SERVICE FOR ALL CONFERENCE
- Publisher:
- Scottish Human Services Trust
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The conference aimed to bring people together to exchange information, examples of good practice and ideas about making NHS services more accessible. The main elements of the event were to: understand access from the perspective of people with disabilities, people with mental health problems and older people, what helps and what are the main problems?; identify good practice in Scotland and start a database of good practice; share ideas around practical solutions and on ways to get advice and help from others; and inform ongoing development of policies and advice for the Scottish Executive and the NHS in Scotland on how the NHS and people who use services can work together to improve access. Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the NHS and other service providers have to think actively about how to make services accessible. This legislation is important but making this happen is not just about following legislation. It is about people sharing a vision of what a service for all looks like, of imagining better and working together to make it real.
Mind the gaps: meeting the needs of people with co-occurring substance misuse and mental health problems; report of the joint working group
- Authors:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Scottish Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse, SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Scottish Advisory Committee on Alcohol Misuse
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 97p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This is is a report for people with deep-seated and multiple problems which often have complex and multiple causes. They have co-occurring mental health and substance misuse problems and often occupy the margins of our society. Most can benefit from help and support of many types. But there are shortcomings and gaps in the help that is available. This report seeks to address them. The Working Group has taken account of the following policy initiatives, which already exist or are being developed; and all seek to narrow or close gaps in advice and support: towards social inclusion; towards a successful and sustainable economy, with good employment prospects, training experience and opportunities; towards reducing homelessness; towards targeted provision of housing support services; and towards creating equitable access to a range of care services, regardless of boundaries, and designed to meet the needs of people as clients or patients.
Positively young at heart
- Author:
- MARRIOTT Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, December 2003, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Reports on the development of an early intervention service, Insight, in a youth project in Plymouth. The service aimed to enable young people aged 16-25 to access mental health services in a youth-friendly and non-stigmatised way. The service has been running for three years and is due to be externally evaluated in January 2004 by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
Building Bridges
- Author:
- COLE Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 67, November 2003, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Describes innovative practice in Newcastle where volunteers are talking about mental health with groups of young people. The groups are led by three volunteers, two to facilitate discussion and to act as bridges to services, and another to provide support if a participant requires immediate support or is identified as being at risk.
Mental health care of deaf people: a culturally affirmative approach
- Editors:
- GLICKMAN Neil S., GULATI Sanjay, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 431p., CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- Mahwah, NJ
Deaf adults and children, like their hearing counterparts, experience a full range of mental health problems. They develop psychoses, sink into deep depressions, abuse alcohol and drugs, commit sexual offenses, or simply have trouble adjusting to new life situations. In this book the editors and authors systematically review the special needs of deaf patients, particularly those who regard themselves as "culturally Deaf" and provide professionals with the tools they need to meet those needs. Among these tools is an extensive "library" of pictorial questionnaires and information sheets. These handouts simplify the processes involved in the diagnosis and treatment of people who in many cases are not good readers. The handouts are reproduced on a CD included in each copy of the book.