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Crisis services: where are they?
- Author:
- WARD-PANTER Jacky
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, December 1993, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Bemoans the lack of community mental health crisis centres, and describes a few innovative projects.
Adopting innovations: lessons learned from a peer-based hospital diversion programme
- Authors:
- BURNS-LYNCH Bill, SALZER Mark S.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 37(6), December 2001, pp.511-521.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Moves to bridge the gap between research and practice have heightened interest in how service innovations are adopted. This paper reports on a peer-based hospital diversion programme in the USA that provided short-term respite care, clinical monitoring, connection or re-connection to other mental health services, and peer support. The programme was successful in providing services to the target population and was viewed as highly desirable by service recipients and clinical agencies. However, full adoption of this innovation was not realised and it closed barely a year after opening. Lessons learned from both the "life" and "death" of this programme offered.
Open all hours: 24 hour response for people with mental health emergencies
- Authors:
- MINGHELLA Edna, et al
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 64p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report focusing on acute mental health care, evaluating findings from a study of emergency home treatment for people in severe mental health crisis.
Final countdown
- Author:
- CHRISTIE Bryan
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 6.4.04, 2004, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
With just a year to go before radical mental health legislation is introduced in Scotland, a new report highlights huge gaps in the infrastructure needed to support it. The Act aims to support people with mental health problems so that they can live as independently as possible while setting down conditions for compulsory detention and treatment where deemed necessary.
Turned upside down: developing community-based crisis services for 16-25-year-olds experiencing a mental health crisis
- Authors:
- SMITH Karen, LEON Lucy
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of research aimed at developing models of community-based crisis service for young people aged 16-24 years. Surveys the views of young people with experience of mental health crisis on their experiences and the kind of services they would like. Outlines possible models for crisis services, with examples of existing projects, and draws up recommendations for future practice, with particular regard to user involvement.
We will keep you out of hospital
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.8.00, 2000, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a north London crisis team which is striving to make care in the community work for people with mental health problems by working with clients in their homes and preventing their crises from leading to hospitalisation.
New line on mental health care
- Authors:
- TAYLOR Steve, BIRTLES Clair
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 28.1.98, 1998, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the setting up of a 24-hour helpline after an increase in crisis phone calls to a mental health unit.
Residential crisis services as an alternative to inpatient care
- Authors:
- HARTMANN David J., SULLIVAN Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 77(8), October 1996, pp.496-501.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Reports on the results of a study of a residential crisis programme house in Missouri. The programme is designed to provide a home-like atmosphere for consumers experiencing acute episodes. The study contributes to a quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of such programmes; it suggests that a residential programme is a less expensive alternative to hospitalisation and appears to serve the short-term stabilisation needs of its clientele. Client self-reports confirm return to preadmission functioning and high levels of satisfaction.
Can crisis services be user-friendly and effective?
- Author:
- SCOTT Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care Management and Planning, 2(6), December 1994, pp.195-196.
- Publisher:
- Pavillion
Highlights issues of whether services to people with mental health problems can be effective and user friendly by describing a community-based mental health service offered to people in North Tyneside.
Transforming mental health care: assertive outreach and crisis resolution in practice
- Authors:
- CHISHOLM Anne, FORD Richard
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 81p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The 'National Service Framework' calls for the creation of crisis resolution teams as an alternative to hospital admission for individuals experiencing acute mental health crises, and of assertive outreach teams for 'difficult to engage' people living in the community. This report focuses on the implementation of these teams, comparing sites across the country, and providing practical advice on both the benefits and difficulties of assertive outreach and crisis resolution. It highlights the importance of these teams as components of a wider system of mental health services, leading not just to the creation of discrete new services but to transformational change across the whole system.