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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.
Violence: managing disturbed/violent behaviour; understanding NICE guidance; information for service users, their advocates, families and carers, and the public
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. National Institute for Clinical Excellence
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Clinical Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 68p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline makes recommendations on the short-term management of disturbed/violent behaviour in adult in-patient psychiatric settings and emergency departments. This management takes place within a multi-faceted legal framework, compliance with which is a core measure of quality and good practice. Failure to act in accordance with the guideline may not only be a failure to act in accordance with best practice, but in some circumstances may have legal consequences. For example, any intervention used must be a reasonable and proportionate response to the risk it seeks to address. [NICE guideline CG25 has now been replaced by NG10 Violence and aggression: short-term management in mental health, health and community settings].
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.
Breaking the circles of fear: a review of the relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean communities
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 102p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The key findings of this report include the following. Mainstream services are experienced as inhumane unhelpful and inappropriate by black people. The care pathways are problematic. Primary care is limited and community based crisis care is lacking. There is a divergence in professional and lay discourse about mental illness. Service user, family and carer involvement is lacking. Black led initiatives are not valued. The feeling of stigma is wide spread.