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Asylum seekers and mental health care in the UK
- Author:
- WATTERS Charles
- Publisher:
- Refugee Council
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This new Breathing Space Project report focuses on the mental health experiences of asylum seekers. It tracks the experience of asylum seekers over a six month period offering a ‘clients eye view’ of the mental health and social care environment in which they find themselves. It includes ten case studies of asylum seekers in the years 1999 and 2000.
Partnership and innovation in school-based mental health: a Canadian perspective
- Authors:
- CLARKE Margaret, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 4(4), November 2002, pp.44-48.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Provides an overview of the social policy and research context for the development of innovative partnerships in school-based settings. Goes on to focuses on an expanded case study of two school-based programmes, one in an urban setting and one in a semi-rural environment. Presents qualitative and quantitative outcomes for both programmes and highlights factors necessary to ensure ongoing programme efficacy.
Mental health intervention with Hispanic immigrants: understanding the influence of the client's worldview, language, and religion
- Author:
- GONZALEZ Manny J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Services, 1(1), 2002, pp.81-91.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Hispanic immigrants encounter numerous obstacleswhich prevent them from successfully navigating through the mental health system.This reality is further compounded by the fact that research appears to suggest an increased rate of mental health disorders among Hispanics. This article underscores the importance of understanding the influence of a Hispanic client's worldview, language, and religion on the provision of mental health services. A case vignette is presented as a means of illustrating key conceptual points
Emotional dysregulation: the key to a treatment approach for violent mentally ill individuals
- Authors:
- NEWHILL Christina E., MULVEY Edward P.
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Social Work Journal, 30(2), Summer 2002, pp.157-171.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
Prior research has suggested that psychopathy, substance abuse, and the presence of a personality disorder increase an individual's risk for violence toward others. Substantial clinical literature has established emotional dysregulation as a risk marker for violence toward self. It is hypothesized that emotional dysregulation may be an important component in a constellation of risk markers for violence toward others and may interact with psychopathy and substance abuse in individuals with personality disorders to enhance risk for violence. If these hypothesized relationships exist, it suggests that the development of an intervention approach which directly targets these factors may hold promise. A potential intervention approach based on dialectical behavioral therapy, with case illustrations, is provided.
Gambling on independence
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.3.02, 2002, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A former social care manager is diagnosed with a disease that affects people with HIV and which severely impairs his cognitive ability. He develops mental health problems and is sectioned. Looks at how the intervention of a social worker helped him gain some independence.
Living in fear of a client
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.2.02, 2002, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A young women with mental health problems is sent to prison for burglary. Her baby, who has been put up for adoption, is brought to her once a month but a decision is taken to break off contact with her social worker. As a result the women begins to issue threats against the worker. Reports on a case study.
Mucking in to save a life
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.01.02, 2002, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A farmer is shunned by his local community due to the effects of depression and fails to look after his animals properly. In isolation he attempts suicide. A practitioner explains to the author how joining the farmer in the fields helped him regain his self-respect.
Whose baby is it anyway? Developing a joined-up service involving child and adult teams working in a mental health trust
- Authors:
- BRITTEN Clive, CARDWELL Amynta
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 26(4), Winter 2002, pp.76-83.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes how clinicians from a London-based child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS), in partnership with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), developed a joined-up service with colleagues in the local adult mental health teams in a London Hospital. The service aimed to raise awareness of the potential risk factors posed to children being cared for by an adult with a mental health problem. The article includes a number of short case examples.
Nursing home residents with borderline personality traits: clinical social work interventions
- Authors:
- HIMELICK Allison J., WALSH Joseph
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 37(1), 2002, pp.49-64.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Persons with borderline personality disorder often carry symptoms of that disorder into old age. Because this fact is not widely recognized, health care professionals including social workers often fail to appropriately assess and intervene with these persons in long-term care settings. The purposes of this paper are to review themanifestations of borderline personality traits in older adults and to describe how social workers can develop effective intervention strategies with them in long-term care settings. Two case studies of nursing home residents are included.
The welfare of children with mentally ill parents: learning from inter-country comparisons
- Authors:
- HETHERINGTON Rachael, BAISTOW Karen, KATZ Ilan, MESIE Jeffrey, TROWELL Judith
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 262p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Children with mentally ill parents have complex needs, and a wide range of mental health and social services may be involved. This can lead to problems of liaison and co-operation between different agencies and different disciplines. The study looks at different approaches to supporting families in ten European countries and one state in Australia. Common problems and effective responses are identified and used to build a European model of good practice, which takes into account the nature of the difficulties facing families and the strengths and weaknesses of national systems. The model is used as a basis for analysing the particular problems of the English system.