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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.
Children with mental disorder and the law: a guide to law and practice
- Author:
- HARBOUR Anthony
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 245p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Children and young people with complex mental health needs are increasingly being cared for within specialist mental health care settings, either in the community or in in-patient facilities. With rapid social developments, it can be difficult for carers and practitioners to keep track of the law in this area. This book provides a guide to the law relating to mental health care for children and young people, their rights and entitlement to service, and discusses important issues in clinical and social care practice such as parental responsibility, Gillick competency and capacity, emergency intervention and detention, assessment of mental illness and confidentiality in practice. A chapter written by Mary Mitchell considers the diagnosis and management of complex mental illness in young people, and a concluding chapter discusses changes in the law.
Riding high
- Authors:
- WARD Amelia, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 14.7.93, 1993, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on the work of the Riding Ward at the Prudhoe Hospital in Northumberland, an in-patient unit for the assessment and treatment of young people who have a psychiatric disturbance superimposed on their learning disability.
Children's mental health: current findings and research directions
- Authors:
- LeCROY C Winston, ASHFORD Jose B.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Research and Abstracts, 28(1), March 1992, pp.13-20.
- Publisher:
- National Association of Social Workers
Summarises the research literature on community, residential and hospital services, and on preventive work.
Therapeutic residential care for children and youth: a consensus statement of the International Work Group on Therapeutic Residential Care
- Authors:
- WHITTAKER James K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 33(2), 2016, pp.89-106.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Sets out the principles and values that should underpin therapeutic residential care. This consensus statement adopts, as a useful starting point, Whittaker, Del Valle, & Holmes’ definition of therapeutic residential care, which is understood to involve ‘the planful use of a purposefully constructed, multi-dimensional living environment designed to enhance or provide treatment, education, socialization, support, and protection to children and youth with identified mental health or behavioral needs in partnership with their families and in collaboration with a full spectrum of community-based formal and informal helping resources.’ The principles include: ‘primum non nocere’ (first, do no harm), which entails that ‘Safety First’ should be the guiding principle in the design and implementation of all TRC programmes; a hallmark of TRC programmes—in whatever particular cultural expression they assume—is to strive constantly to forge and maintain strong and vital family linkages; services are fully anchored in the communities, cultures, and web of social relationships that define and inform the children and families we serve; TRC is at its core informed by a culture that stresses learning through living and where the heart of teaching occurs in a series of deeply personal, human relationships; the ultimate epistemological goal for therapeutic residential care is the identification of a group of evidence-based models or strategies for practice that are effective in achieving desired outcomes for youth and families, replicable from one site to another, and scalable. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social work and child mental health: psychosocial principles in community practice
- Author:
- WALKER Steven
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 33(5), August 2003, pp.673-687.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The increased prevalence, complexity and earlier onset of child and adolescent mental health difficulties, has prompted government initiatives to reconfigure current provision for this client group, their parents and the carers who try to support them. Social workers have an important part to play in responding to the needs of these individual children and families. A residual, care management role is not adequate in these circumstances. This paper describes the development of social work in child and adolescent mental health, and suggests that a synthesis of psychosocial principles and community practice, offers the optimum social work model of assessment and intervention. Such a model embraces the most useful aspects of psychodynamic theory in the context of practice consistent with anti-discriminatory, children's rights and partnership principles.
Mental health and mental illness: out of the closet?
- Authors:
- MOWBRAY Carol T., HOLTER Mark C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 76(1), March 2002, pp.135-179.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The extensive changes in mental health services over the past 25 years negate the possibility of an overall research summary. Instead, we identify six pivotal topics to explore in depth: (1) the paradigm shift to a biopsychosocial mental illness etiology, (2) the organisation and financing of mental health care, (3) community-based programmes for adults with serious mental illness (4) the role of families and consumers, (5) services for children and adolescents with serious emotional or mental disturbances, and (6) the interface with criminal justice. The article concludes with a discussion of future issues in mental health services research and the role of social work researchers.
Unit costs of community care 1994
- Authors:
- NETTEN Ann, comp
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 104p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Contains sections on services for: older people; people with mental health problems; people with learning difficulties; children and families; and generic services.
Vulnerable adults and community care: a reader
- Editor:
- BROWN Keith
- Publisher:
- Bournemouth University
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Poole
This text was written primarily to support candidates undertaking a post qualifying social work award in the field of Community Care and working with Vulnerable Adults. Contnets include: needs assessment and community care; assessing rights and risk; Primary Care Groups; are waiting lists inevitable?; the elderly welfare consumer; intermediate care for the older person; caring for older people - informal carers; empowerment; practicing partnership; quality care and interprofessional working; mental health in later life; chronic illness and disability; and adult protection for vulnerable adults.
Icarus Project: reflections from down under
- Author:
- SHEEHAN Rosemary
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 8(1), 2001, pp.54-61.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
Reports on progress of the Icarus Project which investigated the nature and level of support in the community for children and parents in families where there is parental mental illness. The problem of providing satisfactory responses for such families is recognised not only across Europe but also in Australia as an issue of widespread concern. Discusses how the implications of the final report and the practical applications of such a model offer Australia the opportunity to redefine how adult mental health and child welfare services can work together with vulnerable families.