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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.
Rehabilitation and community care
- Author:
- PILLING Stephen
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 175p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
A practical guide to community care of the mentally ill. Shows how careful planning and implementation is required, and stresses the importance of teamwork and quality assurance. Includes chapters on day care and carers. Each chapter contains checklists and performance guides. Aimed at students and health and social services professionals.
Assessing health care: a study in organisational evaluation
- Authors:
- SMITH Gilbert, CANTLEY Caroline
- Publisher:
- Open University
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Pagination:
- 201p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Milton Keynes
Learning, candour and accountability: a review of the way NHS trusts review and investigate the deaths of patients in England
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 76
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
Reports on a review carried out by the Care Quality Commission to investigate how NHS trusts identify, investigate and learn from the deaths of people under their care. This review was carried out in response to the very low numbers of investigations or reviews of deaths at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. It draws on evidence from a national survey of NHS trusts and visits to 12 acute, community healthcare and mental health trusts; the views of over 100 families, collected through interviews, events and an online form; and consultation with charities and NHS professionals. The findings are discussed in five areas: the involvement of families and carers; the identification and reporting of deaths; making decisions to review and investigate; decisions to review or investigate; and governance arrangement and learning. Examples of promising practice are also included. The results found that that many carers and families had a poor experience of investigations and are not always treated with respect and honesty. This was especially true of deaths involving people with a learning disability or people with mental problems. The review also found that opportunities are missed to learn across the system from deaths that may have been prevented. It concludes that learning from deaths needs to be a much greater priority for all working within health and social care. The report makes recommendations for improvement. (Edited publisher abstract)
International outcome measures in mental health: quality of life, needs, service satisfaction, costs and impact on carers
- Authors:
- THORNICROFT Graham, et al
- Publisher:
- Gaskell
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book contains five practical scales for assessing the outcomes of mental healthcare. They are the European versions of: Camberwell Assessment of Need (for unmet and met needs); Client Socio-demographic and Service Receipt Inventory (for service costs); Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (for impact of care on family members); Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (for quality of life); Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (for service satisfaction). Each scale has been standardised (in Danish, Dutch, English, Italian and Spanish), and has been shown to be reliable and valid in all these European languages.The book contains full details of the development of these scales, manuals for their use, the scales themselves and instructions on how to use the results. These new measures will be invaluable to all those in research, evaluation, audit and management who have an interest in evidence-based policy and practice in mental healthcare.
The national service framework for mental health: an executive briefing
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Critically examines seven standards proposed by the National Service Framework for Mental Health covering, mental health promotion, primary care and access to services, effective services for severe mental illnesses, caring for carers, and preventing suicide.
Looking to the future: key issues for contemporary mental health services
- Editor:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing,|Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 229p.bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Focusing on central issues and debates, key research findings and current challenges, the book is illustrated with mental health service users' poems and photographs, and presents a broad overview of the mental heath care system which is looking to the future. The book is intended as a reader for the Certificate in Community Mental Health Care. Contents include: perspectives on mental health and illness; issues around empowerment; carpers' testimonies; legal contexts across the UK; individual care planning; risk and safety; anti-racist practice in mental health assessment; community mental health services; working with people with long term needs; strategies for living with mental distress; understanding relationships; the soul of psychiatry.
Developments in short-term care: breaks and opportunities
- Editor:
- STALKER Kirsten
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 170p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together research findings into short term care services for a range of user groups. Looks at: user views; costings; quality of service provision; and specific groups such as disabled children and people with dementia.
A national service framework for mental health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 149p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Service Framework (NSF) for mental health is intended to drive up quality and remove the wide and unacceptable variations in provisions. This NSF sets national standards and defines service models for promoting mental health and treating mental illness. It also puts in place underpinning programmes to support local delivery and establishes milestones and a specific group of high-level performance indicators against which progress within agreed time-scales will be measured. The NSF for mental health concentrates on the mental health needs of working age adults up to 65, and covers health promotion, assessment and diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and care, and encompasses primary and specialist care and the roles of the partner agencies. The NSF also touches on the need of children and young people, highlighting areas where services for children and adults interact, for example the interface between services for 16 – 18 year olds, and the needs of children with a mentally ill parent.