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The THRIVE assessment and planning tool
- Authors:
- ASLAN Marion, SMITH Mike
- Publisher:
- Crazydiamond
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- Newton le Willows
This is a planning tool for people who are receiving services or support. It is designed to help people to put together their own recovery plan in their own language and on their own terms, so that the people providing support and professional care can understand how best to support them.
Evaluation of the Scottish recovery indicator pilot in five health board areas
- Authors:
- McLEAN Joanne, WHITEHEAD Indiya
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This Research Findings paper is based on the evaluation of the Scottish Recovery Indicator (SRI) which was piloted in five health board areas in Scotland. The SRI enables services to examine whether individuals who use services and their carers’ needs are met in terms of their rights to equality, social inclusion and support to recover.
Evaluation of the Scottish recovery indicator pilot in five health board areas in Scotland
- Authors:
- McLEAN Joanne, WHITEHEAD Indiya
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 81p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This evaluation is concerned with the Scottish Recovery Indicator (SRI). The SRI enables the assessment of whether and how organisations, and those who work in them, are ensuring that individuals who use their services and their carers’ needs are met in terms of their rights to equality, social inclusion and support to recover. The SRI data is collected from a range of sources, including: assessments and care plans, service information, policies and procedures and interviews with service providers and service users. The evaluation objectives are to assess the relevance and appropriateness of the tool to a variety of settings, identify what preparation organisations and individuals need before using the tool and how best the tool should be used, identify whether the tool may be able to measure changes in services and the potential for the use of SRI as a means of promoting change, and to assess whether service users and carers feel added benefit from being involved in the piloting of SRI. The evaluation explored and reviewed the developmental process of the SRI from the perspectives of all of the groups of individuals involved and included local pilot site group discussions, documentary analysis of a completed SRIs and interviews with SRI administrators, service-user and service-provider group participants, a review of any action planning documentation and focus groups with those involved in action planning/implementing change.
Assessment of parenting competency in mothers with mental illness
- Author:
- OSTLER Teresa
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 188p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
The stakes are undeniably high when it comes to deciding whether a mother with mental illness can raise her child in a safe, nurturing environment. Now, mental health professionals will have sound assessment strategies - refined over 10 years of study - that fairly evaluate the parenting competency of mothers with a wide range of mental illnesses, from "baby blues" to schizophrenia. Going beyond measuring only the mother's degree of mental illness, the safety of the environment, or the rate of child development, this resource integrates multiple approaches so that professionals understand the full picture of parenting competency.
Mental health in learning disabilities: a reader
- Editors:
- HOLT Geraldine, HARDY Steve, BOURAS Nick, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 223p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
This book, like its previous editions, aims to provide the reader with up-to-date information on mental health problems in people with learning disabilities and associated issues. It has been updated and extended with six additional chapters, to reflect latest developments in services and treatment.
Mental Health Task Force London project: follow up report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. National Health Service Executive. Mental Health Task Force
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Health Service Management Executiv
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Report summarising the progress made since initial visits made by the Task Force and outlines how the progress of recommended improvements to services will be monitored.
Measuring mental health needs
- Editors:
- THORNICROFT Graham, BREWIN Chris, WING John
- Publishers:
- Gaskell, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 328p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes the different approaches that can be taken to measuring the effectiveness of mental health services.
Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 81
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers assessment, management and preventing recurrence for children, young people and adults who have self-harmed. It includes those with a mental health problem, neurodevelopmental disorder or learning disability and applies to all sectors that work with people who have self-harmed. In this guideline, self-harm is defined as intentional self-poisoning or injury, irrespective of the apparent purpose. The guideline does not cover repetitive, stereotypical self-injurious behaviour (such as head banging). This guideline includes recommendations on: information and support; consent and confidentiality; safeguarding; involving family members and carers; psychosocial assessment and care by mental health professionals; risk assessment tools and scales; assessment and care by healthcare professionals and social care practitioners; assessment and care by professionals from other sectors; admission to and discharge from hospital; initial aftercare after an episode of self-harm; interventions for self-harm; supporting people to be safe after self-harm; safer prescribing and dispensing; training and supervision. (Edited publisher abstract)
A safer place to be: findings from our survey of health-based places of safety for people detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 60
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
Examines the provision and use of health-based places of safety for people detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act, which gives police officers the power to detain people, believed to have a mental disorder, in a public place and to take them to a place of safety for assessment. The report, based on the findings from a survey of NHS mental health trusts and social enterprise providers of health-based places of safety in England, focuses on: the availability, in practice, of health-based places of safety; accessibility, including any exclusion criteria; staffing and training of those involved in operating places of safety; target times and delays in carrying out MHA assessments after people have been taken to places of safety; governance, reporting and multi-agency working; and the role of police and ambulance services. The report highlights four key findings that need to be urgently addressed: too many places of safety are turning people away or requiring people to wait for long periods with the police, because they are already full or because there are staffing problems; too many providers operate policies that exclude young people, people who are intoxicated, and people with disturbed behaviour from all of their places of safety; too many commissioners are not adequately fulfilling their responsibilities for maintaining an oversight of the section 136 pathway; and too many providers are not appropriately monitoring their own service provision. As a result and despite guidance from the MHA Code of Practice and elsewhere, the use of police stations across the country is far from uncommon. (Edited publisher abstract)
The assessment of pain in older people
- Authors:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY, BRITISH PAIN SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Physicians
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Pain is under-recognised and under-treated in older people, and the assessment of pain is particularly challenging in the presence of severe cognitive impairments, communication difficulties or language and cultural barriers. This guidance sets out the key components of assessing pain in older people, together with a range of practical scales that can be used with different groups, including those with cognitive or communication impairment. It aims to provide professionals with a set of practical skills to assess pain as the first step towards its effective management. It describes the background and methodology used, key components of an assessment of pain, and types of scale used to assess pain. It also provides a summary of recommendations in the full guidelines covering: pain awareness, pain enquiry, pain description, pain location and intensity, communication, assessment in people with impaired cognition/communication, cause of pain, and re-evaluation. It notes that the basic guidelines should be a routine part of the training and care provision of all healthcare professionals. The appendices include the guideline development process, an algorithm for the assessment of pain in older people, a pain map, and examples of pain scales.