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Speaking up: how family members advocate for relatives living with a mental illness. community
- Author:
- SCHAFFER Marjorie A.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 57(8), 2021, pp.1547-1555.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Consumers with a mental health condition often feel powerless and overwhelmed in interactions with mental healthcare providers. Consumer self-advocacy and advocacy actions undertaken by their family members on the behalf of their relative contribute to a sense of empowerment for both consumers and their family members. This qualitative study explored family member perspectives of advocacy actions they took on behalf of their relatives and themselves. Data analysis of interviews with 20 family members, including parents, partners/spouses, siblings, and adult children, yielded three themes of family member advocacy actions: advocating for a relative’s mental healthcare, normalizing mental illness, and engaging in social and political actions. Advocacy frameworks offer useful guidelines for speaking up for individuals who live with a mental illness. (Edited publisher abstract)
Interventions for families victimized by child sexual abuse: clinical issues and approaches for child advocacy center-based services
- Authors:
- TAVKAR Poonam, HANSEN David J.
- Journal article citation:
- Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16(3), May 2011, pp.188-199.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Child sexual abuse poses serious mental health risks to child victims and to non-offending family members. In the US, community-based Child Advocacy Centers, designed to be child friendly facilities, are increasingly being used as initial access sites for mental health services for sexual abuse victims. This article identifies and describes various types of mental health interventions for child victims and non-offending family members and provides recommendations for establishing these services at Child Advocacy Centers. It covers impacts on child victims and families, crisis interventions, time-limited individual interventions and group interventions for child victims, non-offending caregivers and non-abused siblings, and the need for long-term interventions and referrals. It presents the Project SAFE intervention offered at the Lincoln/Lancaster County Child Advocacy Center as a model for mental health services in Child Advocacy Centers. It describes 4 key elements of the programme (group treatment for sexually abused young people and their non-offending caregivers, group treatment for non-abused siblings, crisis intervention, and brief family intervention) and discusses its benefits and treatment gains.
Making decisions: a guide for family, friends and other unpaid carers
- Author:
- OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC GUARDIAN
- Publisher:
- Office of the Public Guardian
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
The role of the Public Guardianship Office in safeguarding vulnerable adults against financial abuse
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, BURNS Sophie, WILSON Barry
- Publisher:
- Public Guardianship Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research project was commissioned by the Public Guardianship Office and took place between 2001 and 2002. Although the research was specifically designed to assist the PGO to better understand and respond to financial abuse in its own context, much of what was revealed has wider implications and applicability.
Making decisions: an easyread guide
- Author:
- OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC GUARDIAN
- Publisher:
- Office of the Public Guardian
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Having mental capacity means being able to make your own decision about something. This is an easy read guide for those who need assistance.
'Doing the right thing': the information and support needs of receivers and attorneys: report to the Public Guardianship Office
- Authors:
- RAY Sujata, THOMPSON Pauline, SHARP Ellen
- Publisher:
- Age Concern England
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Age Concern carried out some qualitative research on behalf of the Public Guardianship Office, looking at the information needs of Receivers and Attorneys. It focussed on the information available to Receivers/Attorneys at the time, and identified areas of improvement. This is a summary of the research report.
A guide to enduring powers of attorney
- Author:
- OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC GUARDIAN
- Publisher:
- Office of the Public Guardian
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet is designed to assist those who have either made an Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA) or are acting as an Attorney under an EPA.
The impact of person centred planning
- Authors:
- ROBERTSON Janet, et al
- Publisher:
- Lancaster University. Institute for Health Research
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 125p.
- Place of publication:
- Lancaster
The initial results show that person centred planning led to positive changes for individuals. Some changes were short-lived, but some continued beyond the end of the project. People experienced ongoing positive changes in the size of their social networks, their circle of friends, their presence in the community and the extent and range of their daytime activities. Changes were also seen in people’s contact with their families and the amount of choice available to them, but these improvements were not sustained. People with a plan were more likely to have access to some advocacy and health services. Some negative changes were reported in relation to people’s emotional, behavioural and health problems. These findings are not entirely surprising given that some people find change stressful; that new environments are more likely to seem risky (whether they really are or not); and that person centred planning tends to highlight existing health problems and get help with them. The overall message is that person centred planning was beneficial for people taking part in the study. It is also effective as a policy in promoting community involvement, changing daytime activities, extending contacts with families and friends, and improving choice for people with learning disabilities.
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].
Family caregiving in mental illness
- Author:
- LEFLEY Harriet P
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 271p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA
Looks at the role of carers of people with mental health problems discharged into the community in the United States. Examines the characteristics and conceptual models related to mental health problems and then surveys the experience of mental illness in the context of the family life cycle and developmental stages of the illness. Highlights aspects of the family burden, including social stigma, treatment barriers, stress, and the relationship between patient and carer. Also looks at the impact of the advocacy movement on carers.