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- Author:
- CLARK Maggie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.10.03, 2003, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The inability of professionals to communicate properly with deaf clients with mental health problems undermines client care. Reports on the qualification of the first sign language-using deaf registered mental nurses (RMN). This was made possible through the project Deaf Access, a project run at Salford University, and funded by the Greater Manchester Education and Training Confederation.
Mental health care of deaf people: a culturally affirmative approach
- Editors:
- GLICKMAN Neil S., GULATI Sanjay, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 431p., CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- Mahwah, NJ
Deaf adults and children, like their hearing counterparts, experience a full range of mental health problems. They develop psychoses, sink into deep depressions, abuse alcohol and drugs, commit sexual offenses, or simply have trouble adjusting to new life situations. In this book the editors and authors systematically review the special needs of deaf patients, particularly those who regard themselves as "culturally Deaf" and provide professionals with the tools they need to meet those needs. Among these tools is an extensive "library" of pictorial questionnaires and information sheets. These handouts simplify the processes involved in the diagnosis and treatment of people who in many cases are not good readers. The handouts are reproduced on a CD included in each copy of the book.
Integrating evaluative research and community-based mental health care in Verona, Italy
- Authors:
- TANSELLA Michele, BURTI Lorenzo
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 183(8), August 2003, pp.167-169.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The South Verona Psychiatric Case Register, covering the area served by the community-based mental health service monitors all contacts that South Verona adult residents have with in-patient services (including private psychiatric clinics and hospitals) and community mental health services. The Register and ad hoc surveys provide a basis for studies of service use and patterns of care over time. The following studies have been completed: longitudinal patterns of care; in-patient care prior and subsequent to the Italian psychiatric reform; long-stay and long-term patients; comparisons between South Verona services and other Italian and European services with a different system of care; exploring the relationship between population socio-demographic characteristics and service use; identification of the operational criteria of continuity of care; studies of mortality among psychiatric patients.
Coexisting severe mental health and substance use problems: developing integrated services in the UK
- Authors:
- GRAHAM H. L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 27(5), May 2003, pp.183-186.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
One of the challenges for services in the UK has been how best to meet the needs of those people who experience severe mental health problems and use drugs and alcohol problematically. An 'integrated shared care' model was developed to complement the existing service provision. The model aimed to achieve integration of treatment both at the level of the clinician and service. The key principle underlying this integration is that both mental health and substance misuse problems and the relationship between the two are addressed simultaneously by the mainstream mental health clinician. However, in some cases, more specialist input might be required, and this can be achieved through shared care between mental health and addiction services. Sharing care between service levels means that agreed protocols need to be in place for closer and/or joint working between mental health and substance misuse services.
Exploring perceptions of quality of life of frail older people during and after their transition to institutional care
- Author:
- ESRC GROWING OLDER PROGRAMME
- Publisher:
- University of Sheffield. Department of Sociological Studies
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Reports on research to investigate the quality of life of older people with severe physical and/or mental conditions or disabilities at the end of their lives. The research aims to contributed to the understanding of the quality of life for frail older people, from the perspective of older people themselves. The research used a symbolic interactionist framework and takes a subjective, qualitative approach to quality of life as a multi-dimensional concept, including social, psychological, emotional, cultural, spiritual and environmental dimensions. This ethnographic research included six focus groups, naturalistic observation, and interviews with 52 individuals who had moved into care homes in the previous six months.
The open dialogue approach to acute psychosis: its poetics and micropolitics
- Authors:
- SEIKKULA Jaakko, OLSON Mary E.
- Journal article citation:
- Family Process, 42(3), 2003, pp.403-418.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a network-based, language approach to psychiatric care, Open Dialogue, which has emerged in Finland. The approach includes two levels of analysis, the poetics and the micropolitics. The poetics include three principles: tolerance of uncertainty, dialogism, and polyphony in social networks. A treatment meeting shows how these poetics operate to generate a therapeutic dialogue. The micropolitics are the larger institutional practices that support this way of working and are part of Finnish Need-Adapted Treatment. Recent research suggests that Open Dialogue has improved outcomes for young people in a variety of acute, severe psychiatric crises, such as psychosis, as compared to treatment-as-usual settings.
Implementing a cognitive-behavioral curriculum for adolescents with depression in the school setting
- Authors:
- PHILLIPS Jane Hanvey, CORCORAN Jacqueline, GROSSMAN Connie
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Schools, 25(3), July 2003, pp.129-192.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This American article describes and recommends a school-based cognitive-behavioural curriculum for the treatment of depression in adolescents. The curriculum contains six elements: improving social skills; increasing pleasant activities; relaxation training; increasing positive thoughts; communication training; problem-solving skills training and maintaining gains. Discusses the theoretical approach and presents details of the six-week sessions so that social workers can implement the curriculum in a school setting.
Contradictions in interprofessional care: possibilities for change and development?
- Author:
- HUOTARI Risto
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 17(2), May 2003, pp.151-160.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A descriptive model is outlined for analysis of contradictions in interprofessional care. Six persons from child psychiatric hospital staff and six hospital school teachers who worked with two teenagers were interviewed over a 7-month period in order to examine the nature of their occupational activity. The 47 interviews (225 pages of transcribed text) were examined using discourse analysis. The results indicate that the possibilities for development, which appear as contradictions in human activity and the efforts to resolve them, can be examined from the point of view of the evolution and change in semantic structures.
Count us in: the inquiry into meeting the mental health needs of young people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MORGAN Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 8(3), July 2003, pp.37-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on a one-year inquiry conducted by the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities into meeting the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities. The inquiry included the distribution of questionnaires to professionals through advertising in specialist journals, forms were also sent to social services departments, child and adolescent mental health services and staff in special schools. Focus groups were also held with young people with learning disabilities and their carers. The article reports on two themes of the Inquiry: the promotion of emotional well-being and resilience, and services to meet the needs of young people with learning disabilities who experience mental health problems. Based on the findings the Committee made 23 recommendations.
Adapting Mini-Mental State Examination for dementia screening among illiterate or minimally educated elderly Chinese
- Authors:
- XU Gelin, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(7), July 2003, pp.609-616.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Illiteracy is prevalent among current elderly Chinese. There are few brief cognitive tests in Chinese designed to screen those possibly demented for more detailed evaluation in a clinical setting. The present study adapted the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for screening dementia among illiterate or less educated elderly Chinese. Literacy-dependent items of the MMSE were modified or substituted by equivalent items that are not literacy-dependment. Some items were modified to provide socio-cultural compatibility. After developing it, the Chinese adapted MMSE (CAMSE) was administered to 370 elderly outpatients from Xijing hospitals located in Xi'an, China, 93 of whom were found to be demented and 277 non-demented. Sensitivities and specificities for detecting dementia were evaluated by adjusting for different CAMSE cut-off points. The optimal cut-off points of 22 for literates and 20 for illiterates yielded a sensitivity of 83.87% and a specificity of 84.48%. Corresponding positive predictive value (PPV) was 0.65, and negative predictive value (NPV) was 0.94. The impact of literacy on CAMSE and individual test items was also evaluated. Illiterate subjects got a higher CAMSE total score than literate subjects (p < 0.05). Only one out of 12 test items, serial sevens, was negatively influenced by illiteracy (p < 0.01). After an interval of 4-6 weeks, 32 randomly selected subjects were retested with CAMSE. The test-retest reliability for total scores was 0.75 (p < 0.01). Results suggest that in the socio-cultural context for Chinese, irrespective of their literacy skills, CAMSE proved feasible for use in clinical settings for dementia screening.