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Open all hours: 24 hour response for people with mental health emergencies
- Authors:
- MINGHELLA Edna, et al
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 64p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report focusing on acute mental health care, evaluating findings from a study of emergency home treatment for people in severe mental health crisis.
Informing best practices for children in psychiatric crises: perspectives and insights from families
- Authors:
- WALTER Uta M., PETR Christopher G., DAVIS Sharah
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 87(4), October 2006, pp.612-620.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Young children in psychiatric crisis present complex challenges to their families and service providers. This article presents a qualitative study of families’ perspectives on the crisis that led to their child’s hospitalization, as well as their experience and satisfaction with prior community based services including crisis services. Participants were recruited from a convenience sample of families with children age 12 years old and under who were admitted to or residing in state mental hospitals in Kansas, United States. Results of the study support the usefulness of an ecological view on child mental health emergencies, and specify the need for the development of a more family-centered, community-based crisis response system that includes secure transportation and access to "warm-line" services. To prevent or curtail hospitalization of children, families require assistance in outpatient medication management, especially timely access to psychiatric medication consults and clear information from professionals about benefits and side effects.
Transforming mental health care: assertive outreach and crisis resolution in practice
- Authors:
- CHISHOLM Anne, FORD Richard
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 81p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The 'National Service Framework' calls for the creation of crisis resolution teams as an alternative to hospital admission for individuals experiencing acute mental health crises, and of assertive outreach teams for 'difficult to engage' people living in the community. This report focuses on the implementation of these teams, comparing sites across the country, and providing practical advice on both the benefits and difficulties of assertive outreach and crisis resolution. It highlights the importance of these teams as components of a wider system of mental health services, leading not just to the creation of discrete new services but to transformational change across the whole system.
Brunswick House: a weekend crisis house in North Staffordshire
- Authors:
- HODGSON Richard, CARR Darren, WEALLEANS Lynne
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 26(11), December 2002, pp.453-455.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Brunswick House provides an alternative to NHS facilities for people in crisis. Describes Brunswick House, the first crisis house in North Staffordshire, and assesses the use of acute psychiatric wards and the local accident and emergency department by Brunswick House residents. A mirror design study compared the use of these facilities in the year before with the year after a resident's first admission to Brunswick House.
Turned upside down: services for young people in crisis
- Authors:
- LEON Lucy, SMITH Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 51, March 2001, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Describes the results of a new research project which, through listening to the experiences of young people who have survived a mental health crisis, aims to promote the development of community-based crisis services for 16-25-year-olds.
Modernising crisis services: what do users want from 24-hour services?
- Author:
- BAMBER Carey
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 6(1), March 2001, pp.11-13.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Argues that in identifying what users really want from 24-hour services, providers may find that users are not asking for the impossible. Consultation and partnerships across services and with users may well provide the answer to the question of how it can be done effectively without breaking the bank.
An outreach support team for older people with mental illness: crisis intervention
- Authors:
- RICHMAN Anna, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 27(9), September 2003, pp.348-351.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
The authors describe activity and outcome concerning a consecutive series of older community patients referred to an outreach support team while waiting for acute psychiatric admission. Forty patients on an admissions waiting list who were referred to the outreach support team were followed up. Each patient was reassessed for admission by the responsible medical officer when an in-patient bed became available. Thirty patients who would have been admitted (if a bed had been available at the time of the first assessment) remained at home and did not need hospitalisation. This study suggests that intensive domiciliary support might offer an acceptable form of crisis intervention for older people with mental illness. Further research is needed before generalisation of these findings can be recommended.
Home based treatment: models of service, effectiveness and outcomes in adult mental health; literature review
- Author:
- GODFREY Mary
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Institute for Health
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This report provides a review of the literature on home based treatment for people with disabling mental illness, examining models of service, their effectiveness and outcomes for users and carers.There are two broad models: acute, community based alternatives to in patient care, and long term assertive outreach for those with the most severe and disabling mental illnesses. The key points pertinent to service development are also summarised.
Violence prevention and safety training for case management services
- Authors:
- WEISMAN Robert L., LAMBERTI J. Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 38(4), August 2002, pp.339-348.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Prevention of violence is an important challenge for those who train and supervise mental health workers. This American article describes 'Project Link' which is an outpatient treatment programme designed to reduce jail and hospital recidivism among severely mentally ill adults with histories of criminal justice system involvement. Utilizing a safety and violence education curriculum, Project Link has successfully transitioned high-risk mentally ill individuals from the criminal justice system into the community since 1995. The curriculum uses a preventative strategy to train case managers to identify warning signs of impending violence, and to safely engage patients in community settings.
Being there in a crisis: a report of the learning from eight mental health crisis services
- Editors:
- FAULKNER Alison, PETIT-ZEMAN Sophie, SHERLOCK Joanne, WALLCRAFT Jan
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation,|Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 89p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report demonstrates the value of partnerships between mental health users and providers in the development of community-based crisis services. Service users and the user movement have been calling for 24 access to care and admissions . Most of the services reported were strongly led, staffed or supported by service users or those with personal experience of crisis.