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Meeting NSF standards through partnership
- Author:
- WIGHTMAN Suzanne
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 13(1), January 2005, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Describes a project to improve care for older people with mental health needs in an acute hospital.
Eye for an eye
- Authors:
- BOWLES Nick, DODDS Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 108, March 2001, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Describes the effect of significantly reducing 'formal observations' on an acute ward.
Psychiatric caring
- Author:
- BARKER Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.3.01, 2001, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
In a break with the tradition of observation and control, the author discovers that some pioneering psychiatric units are finding new ways to reach out to patients in need of acute care.
Home treatment for acute mental disorders: an alternative to hospitalization
- Author:
- HEATH David S.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 293p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
When a patient is in need of intensive psychiatric care, the first step is often hospitalization. However, psychiatric home treatment is proposed as an alternative. Model programs in Canada and the United Kingdom are publicly administered by community health agencies or teaching hospitals. Psychiatric Home Treatment provides a review of the literature on home care and describes working programs around the world. This timely volume reviews treatment plans for different disorders with case illustrations, explains the administration of a PHC program and offers guidelines to case workers. It will be of interest to mental health professionals and policy makers working on the issue of patient hospitalization.
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.
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.
Unleashing creativity
- Author:
- McCUE Isabel
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2005, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Theatre Nemo is a community theatre company that aims to promote the creative arts in education, but especially for those affected by mental health issues. The theatre is based in Lanarkshire, Scotland and this article looks at some of the projects it has undertaken in prisons and psychiatric hospitals.
Is anybody listening?
- Author:
- WARNER Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 15.3.01, 2001, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that service users are unhappy with many aspects of inpatient mental health care and looks at how nurses can help.
When the walls came down
- Author:
- GITTINS Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Hears the views of former patients at Severalls Hospital, a long stay psychiatric institution in Essex.
Facing the realities of life in a psychiatric hospital
- Author:
- BRANDON D.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 15.12.86, 1986, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Analysis key elements in improving community care.