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Intensive home care treatment teams: users' and carers' experiences of the service and the outcomes of care
- Authors:
- GODFREY Mary, TOWNSEND Jean
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Institute for Health Management
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 75p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
1st in a series of research studies on the South Leeds Mental Health Service.
Intensive, not intrusive: our visits and telephone interviews with individuals and carers who have had contact with Intensive Home Treatment Services and the service providers
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
For several years, there has been a move away from hospital-based care and treatment for people with mental illness, learning disability and related conditions. Intensive home treatment (IHT) is an alternative to hospital admission. This report presents the findings of visits and telephone interviews from October 2011 to February 2012 with individuals who had received IHT and their carers in order to obtain their views of the service. The study covered both adult services and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 106 individuals, 25 carers and 23 service managers. The findings showed an overwhelmingly positive view of IHT, with the vast majority of the individuals and careers highly valuing the service. Local service managers reported that the availability of IHT has reduced the need for hospital admission. There is no overall consistent model of IHT across Scotland. While it is unrealistic to expect a ‘one size fits all’ model for intensive home treatment, the report concludes that all NHS Boards should ensure that they have services to assess and support people at home during times of mental health crises. A number of key messages and recommendations are provided to help to develop further this model of service.
Relationships between youth and caregiver strengths and mental health outcomes in community based public mental health services
- Authors:
- RADIGAN Marleen, WANG Rui
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 49(5), 2013, pp.499-506.
- Publisher:
- Springer
To examine relationships between youth and caregiver strengths and behavioural health outcomes for youth in community service settings. Strengths and behavioural health needs of youth (N = 793) receiving Home and Community Based Services Waiver from 2002–2008 were characterised using the child and adolescent needs and strengths mental health assessment. Comparisons of assessment scores at admission and programme completion were conducted using Chi-square, repeated measures ANOVA and Cohen’s d effect size. Associations between strengths at admission and having behavioural health needs met were examined using multivariable logistic regression. Youth had high levels of needs on mental health, risk and functioning dimensions at admission. All needs improved significantly over the course of the service episode. Youth and caregiver strengths at admission were associated with significant improvements in youth behavioural needs areas at discharge. The findings support the importance of assessing and incorporating youth and caregiver strengths in planning and delivering public mental health services. (Publisher abstract)
Stop, look and listen: service user and carer consultation can make a genuine difference to a service
- Author:
- OLDKNOW Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 11(1), March 2007, pp.32-36.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author describes the aims and objectives of the Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust's clinical audit of its community mental health nursing team. In the audit the views of service users and carers on their initial assessment interview were sought. The following simple changes in practice regarding out-of-hours contact made a genuine difference to service users and carers.
A bridge for families
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(7), March 2000, pp.222-223.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article describes the work of Luton Building Bridges, a voluntary sector support service for families where a parent has mental health problems. Includes an interview with a user of the service.
Professionals performance in community mental health settings: a conceptual exploration
- Authors:
- WOLF Judith, PARKMAN Sue, GAWITH Libby
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 9(1), February 2000, pp.63-75.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article reports the results of a 'concept mapping' exercise which was held to explore participants' views on what mental health professionals should be doing in order to provide care for people with severe and enduring mental health problems in the community. Participants came form user, carer and different professional backgrounds. The general principles underlying many of the views of participants were of empowerment and rehabilitation. Nevertheless, participants rated the more specialist and therapeutic interventions, particularly crisis prevention and intervention and the development of a good therapeutic relationship, as being more important than activities that are aimed at developing clients' integration into the community. The implications of these findings for the future development of a tool to assess professionals' performance are discussed.
Care programme approach in practice
- Authors:
- MAHON Geraldine, MIDDLE Dave
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.8.97, 1997, pp.2-4.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Geraldine Mahon believes that greater involvement by service users and carers will result in more holistic care arrangements for people with mental illness, while Dave Middle argues that communication with service users - and between service providers - is the key to success in the care programme approach.
Chinese mental health issues in Britain: perspectives from the Chinese Mental Health Association
- Editors:
- YEE Lydia, AU Shun
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Booklet presenting an overview of mental health issues facing the Chinese community in Britain. Includes chapters on: a brief history of the Chinese Mental Health Association; the mental health of Chinese children and young people in Britain; psychiatrists and Chinese mental health; the community mental health nursing perspective; Chinese medicine and mental health; Chinese carers of people with mental health problems; and Chinese elders and their mental health.
Still a bridge too far?
- Author:
- RUSSELL Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 3.2.94, 1994, p.13.
There is growing recognition that people with mental health problems and their carers can benefit from independent advocacy. Kirklees SSD, Dewsbury Health Care, Huddersfield Health and Dewsbury Community Health Council funded research to look at how advocacy should be developed locally.
Emotional rescue
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.03.04, 2004, p.42.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Consistency, an essential prop to achieving potential, is all too often an alien concept for looked-after children. And this is especially the case for those young people who have social, emotional and behavioural problems, and whose needs cannot be met effectively by existing foster carers. It was to tackle these problems that Wirral social services, in north west England, adopted therapeutic fostering - a targeted service offered in partnership with the child and adolescent mental health service (Camhs) team.