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Care in the community: user run services
- Author:
- KNIBBS Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.5.94 Supplement, 1994, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Psychiatric hospitals offer few opportunities to question treatment or even to make day to day choices. Explains why user-run services are vital for good community care and looks at Brixton Community Sanctuary, a service set up and run by a group of users and survivors of the mental health system.
Mental health report: casemix outcome resources needs
- Authors:
- ELPHICK Martin, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Health Service Management Executiv
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 137p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Winchester
Report of a project aiming to: assess the feasibility of the routine collection of a broader range of clinical and service data than is current within NHS Mental Health Units; to use the resulting dataset to refine the current version of English casemix resource groups (in particular by extending their use to community care by all mental health professions and by making use of measures of severity, functional ability and social circumstances as well as diagnosis); and to assess the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale currently under development by the Royal College of Pyschiatrists Research Unit.
Involving service users in mental health services: social services departments and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
- Author:
- BOWL Ric
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 5(3), July 1996, pp.287-303.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines user involvement in community care services directed toward those experiencing mental distress. It analyses past experience of involvement in service delivery and planning and the issues this highlights. It reports on two research studies which reveal considerable confusion about the meaning and purpose of user involvement, little evidence of power-sharing with users and limited commitment of resources to make further participation possible. Interviews with users reveal enthusiasm of extending their own involvement if they receive appropriate support. The conclusion considers continuing barriers to developing effective participation of service users in the management and delivery of services.
All in the mind
- Author:
- ROSE Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.4.96, 1996, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Community care was fully implemented three years ago this week, but a report reveals that people with mental health problems living in the community still suffer abuse, prejudice and harassment.
Tapping into experience
- Author:
- ROWLEY David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.1.95, 1995, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how Suffolk SSD's pilot project to give community care users input into training has broken down barriers with practitioners.
The Impact of the Mental Illness Specific Grant in the Northern Region
- Author:
- BARNES Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 7(1), 1995, pp.19-30.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Summarises the findings of a research study into the use of the Mental Illness Specific Grant in the north of England between 1991 and 1993. Charts the opportunities and achievements of the grant which has supported over 90 community mental health projects in the region, but while the success of the policy is undeniable, its short term nature raises issues for the service users in this very unresourced area of community care.
How users can shape services
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(2), December 1994, pp.9-13.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
People with mental health problems are more likely to receive individualised services if they are able to be direct, suggests the author, Describes the origins of the idea and how it could be introduced in Britain.
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.
Empowerment and partnership in mental health: towards a different relationship
- Authors:
- BRAYE Suzy, PRESTON-SHOOT Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 7(2), Autumn 1993, pp.115-128.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Empowerment and partnership have become accepted principles in social work practice and have received legislative endorsement as the foundation stones of quality relationships between users and providers of community care services. However, these key principles have been interpreted differently by the stakeholders in these services, such that practising empowerment and partnership is neither simple nor straightforward. Argues that, for their potential to be realised, the principles of partnership and empowerment must be located within a conceptual framework which integrates the following elements: firstly, an understanding of power, inequality and oppression, and why these concepts are relevant to professional practice; secondly, personal and organisational commitments to challenging and changing oppressive practices which maintain inequality; and thirdly, a practice base which will give expression to these commitments.
Making the connection
- Author:
- WEDDLE Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 4.7.91, 1991, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on the establishment of the Dumfries and Galloway Mental Health Association by a hospital-based social worker who built up a network of users and ex-users of mental health services into a community self-help resource.