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A safe haven
- Author:
- NEUSTATTER Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 83, July 2006, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
The author visits Collingham Gardens, the largest children's psychiatric in-patient unit in the country, and looks at the work it does with highly disturbed children.
Acute solutions and beyond: lessons on service users involvement
- Author:
- LEA Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health Workforce Development, 1(2), 2006, pp.34-37.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This article describes how service user involvement at all levels can offer a different route for the provision of good quality care for people experiencing mental distress. Taking examples of service users involvement in the acute solutions project, from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, the paper demonstrates how effective involvement can bring about measurable change in service provision and patient satisfaction. Examining the benefits, barriers to, and practicalities of service users involvement, it is argued that placing involvement at the centre offers solutions to the persistent problems found in mental health services. Workers who value and facilitate effective service user involvement enable social inclusion, change service users' status and enrich their own lives and practice.
Contemporary advocacy: providing advocacy for young people using mental health services
- Authors:
- BOYLAN Jane, DALRYMPLE Jane, ROBERSON Joe
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 224, March 2006, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Looks at advocacy for young people experiencing mental health difficulties. Describes the work of the Somerset Young Persons Advocacy Service. Outlines the background to the establishment of the service, the issues addressed by the advocacy service, young people's involvement in the service, and the main achievements. Explains the development of the Headspace Toolkit which aims to provide information and tools to help young people obtain information and advice. Includes a case study describing the experiences of a young person admitted to mental health unit, and the role of the advocate in care planning.
Star wards
- Editors:
- JANNER Marion, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Bright
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 62p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
There's excellent, rarely publicised, practice across the country on acute mental health wards, with patients accessing high quality therapeutic, creative and recreational opportunities. Star Wards works with mental health trusts to enhance acute inpatients' daily experiences and treatment outcomes. Members of the Star Wards' network try to implement whichever of the 75 practical ideas are relevant to them, and our role is to support wards with information and resources. Members also generously share their own examples of great practice and also of challenges they face.
It wouldn't happen today
- Author:
- KOROTANA Prabjit
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.10.06, 2006, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author looks at the gains that have been made in treating mental health patients in the past 60 years and looks to the future.
Out of sight
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2006, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
In light of the publication of 'With Safety in Mind', a report published by the National Patient Safety Agency, the author asks whether trusts are doing enough to prevent rape and sexual assault on psychiatric wards.
The physical health care of psychiatric patients in adult mental health services
- Authors:
- CORMAC Irene, FERRITER Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 11(1), 2006, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
This article describes physical health problems prevalent in psychiatric patients and suggests ways in which mental health services can improve their patients' physical health.
Effectiveness and costs of acute day hospital treatment compared with conventional in-patient care
- Authors:
- PRIEBE Stefan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 188, March 2006, pp.243-249.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
In a randomised controlled trial, 206 voluntarily admitted patients were allocated to either day hospital treatment or conventional wards. Psychopathology, treatment satisfaction and subjective quality of life at discharge, 3 months and 12 months after discharge, readmissions to acute psychiatric treatment within 3 and 12 months, and costs in the index treatment period were taken as outcome criteria. Day hospital patients showed significantly more favourable changes in psychopathology at discharge but not at follow-up. They also reported higher treatment satisfaction at discharge and after 3 months, but not after 12 months. There were no significant differences in subjective quality of life or in readmissions during follow-up. Mean total support costs were higher for the day hospital group. Day hospital treatment for voluntary psychiatric patients in an inner-city area appears more effective in terms of reducing psychopathology in the short term and generates greater patient satisfaction than conventional in-patient care, but may be more costly.
Counting heads
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, February 2006, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The national census of psychiatric inpatients carried out on 31 March was published in December 2005. The author looks at some of the findings and discusses what they show about race equality.
Dual diagnosis in mental health inpatient and day hospital settings: guidance on the assessment and management of patients in mental health inpatient and day hospital settings who have mental ill-health and substance use problems
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance covers the assessment and clinical management of patients with mental illness being cared for in psychiatric inpatient or day care settings who also use or misuse alcohol and/or illicit or other drugs. It also covers organisational and management issues to help mental health services manage these patients effectively.