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Community mental health care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic: practical strategies for improving care for people with serious mental illness
- Authors:
- KOPELOVICH Sarah L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 57(3), 2021, pp.405-415.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a formidable challenge to care continuity for community mental health clients with serious mental illness and for providers who have had to quickly pivot the modes of delivering critical services. Despite these challenges, many of the changes implemented during the pandemic can and should be maintained. These include offering a spectrum of options for remote and in-person care, greater integration of behavioral and physical healthcare, prevention of viral exposure, increased collaborative decision-making related to long-acting injectable and clozapine use, modifying safety plans and psychiatric advance directives to include new technologies and broader support systems, leveraging natural supports, and integration of digital health interventions. This paper represents the authors’ collaborative attempt to both reflect the changes to clinical practice we have observed in CMHCs across the US during this pandemic and to suggest how these changes can align with best practices identified in the empirical literature. (Edited publisher abstract)
Associations between common mental disorders and the Mental Illness Needs Index in community settings
- Authors:
- FONE David L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 191(8), August 2007, pp.158-163.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The relationship between the Mental Illness Needs Index (MINI) and the common mental disorders is not known. Mental health status was measured using the Mental Health Inventory of the Short Form 36 instrument (SF–36). Data from the Caerphilly Health and Social Needs population survey were analysed in multilevel models of 10 653 individuals aged 18–74 years nested within the 2001 UK census geographies of 110 lower super output areas and 33 wards. The MINI score was significantly associated with common mental disorder after adjusting for individual risk factors. This association was stronger at the smaller spatial scale of the lower super output area and for individuals who were permanently sick or disabled. MINI is potentially useful for small-area needs assessment and service planning for common mental disorder in community settings.
Psychiatric services for people with learning disabilities - specialist knowledge and services are needed
- Author:
- REID Andrew H.
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 17.6.95, 1995, pp.1549-1550.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Brief notes on the need for a comprehensive psychiatric service for people with learning disabilities.
Failure in community care: psychiatry's dilemma
- Author:
- COID Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 26.3.94, 1994, pp.805-806.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Argues that after decades of scandals associated with substandard care in institutions come scandals in the community, and that in inner-city areas where psychiatric services are seriously underfunded professionals' lives will be made increasingly difficult.
The support networks of people with severe, long-term mental health problems
- Authors:
- HATFIELD Barbara, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 6(1), 1992, pp.25-40.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Examines the areas of relationships and professional support to mental health service users with severe, long-term mental health problems. The tenuous nature of support available to many service users both in the community and in staffed settings is identified, and it is argued that for real improvements in quality of life, the newly-emerging care manager role will need to address explicitly the relationship environment of people with such problems.
Rehabilitation and community care in mental health
- Author:
- HUGMAN R.
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 3(3/4), Winter 1989, pp.199-214.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses problems of institutionalisation within a rehabilitation unit in the community.
Social prescribing for individuals living with mental illness in an Australian community setting: a pilot study
- Authors:
- AGGAR Christina, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 57(1), 2021, pp.189-195.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Social prescribing, also known as “community referral”, is a means of referring individuals living in the community to existing local non-clinical health, welfare, and social support services. International evidence demonstrates that social prescribing improves biopsychosocial quality of life, and burden on health services. Australia’s first social prescribing pilot program for individuals with mental illness (mood and psychotic spectrum disorders) was implemented in Sydney in 2016/2017; this study evaluates that program. Participants included 13 adults who were assessed at baseline and six-month follow-up. Outcomes included self-perceived quality of life, welfare needs, health status, loneliness, social participation, and economic participation. Results indicate significant improvements in quality of life and health status. This pilot program demonstrates that social prescribing may improve participant outcomes. It fits well within Australian health policy and funding models which focus on bolstering community care, and may be scalable, particularly in geographically isolated communities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Community-based compulsory treatment orders in Scotland; the early evidence
- Author:
- LAWTON-SMITH Simon
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In recent years, several countries have introduced powers to compel certain people with mental disorders living in the community to engage with services and undergo treatment. This paper explores what happened in the first six months after community-based compulsory treatment orders were introduced in Scotland in October 2005. It looks at how many people have become subject to the orders, the pathways to being placed on an order, the impacts on mental health staff, and resource issues. It also considers what lessons emerge for England and Wales, which will soon be introducing similar arrangements.
Feeling good: promoting children's mental health
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
These activity sheets provide parents and their children aged 4 to 7 with a unique resource to help them talk about how they feel and what makes them happy or sad, stressed or secure. The sheets include pictures of home and school life designed to show a range of events that happen to young children. Guidance notes help parents use the sheets to help their children explore their emotions and talk about what makes them have different feelings.
From segregation to inclusion: commissioning guidance on day services for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance is designed to assist commissioners of mental health services in the refocusing of day services for working-age adults with mental health problems into community resources that promote social inclusion and promote the role of work and gaining skills in line with current policy and legislation.