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Where the living is easier
- Author:
- SMITH Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 28.2.02, 2002, p.18.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Community-based crisis services can keep psychiatric patients out of hospital and reduce feelings of stigma. Looks at their progress to date.
Promoting happiness
- Author:
- FERNANDO Suman
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 114, March 2002, p.18.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Looks at the work of Nest in Sri Lanka. Nest provides halfway houses for women with mental health problems who have been discharged from hospital into the community. Community health workers provide psychosocial support to the women in the community.
Working with mental illness: a community-based approach
- Author:
- TILBURY Derek
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 152p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Focusing on fundamentals of practice involving mental illness and ongoing work based in the community, this book looks at the impact good social work can have on the quality of life of sufferers, their families and carers. It examines attitudes to what constitutes mental health and mental illness and perceptions of psychiatric services, and practice issues such as the dynamics and outcomes of decisions about whether a client has a mental illness, face-to-face transactions between a person with mental illness and the social worker, the social worker's activities on behalf of a client or sufferer, including securing an appropriate environment and establishing the place of the sufferer within it by securing a routine, and work with families affected.
The impact of mobile crisis services on the user of community-based mental health services
- Authors:
- DYCHES Hayne, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 12(6), November 2002, pp.731-751.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This American study examines the differences in postcrisis mental health services and timing between a community-based intervention cohort and a matched hospital-based cohort, assessed using a Cox proportional hazards model. Service users most likely to use postcrisis services were African American homeless, those experiencing acute problems, previous mental health service users, and those with severe mental health problems. Discusses the implications of the findings.
Professional dilemma
- Author:
- SMITH Simon Lawton
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.4.02, 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at moves to improve the status and professionalism of community mental health support workers. Asks whether this could undermine their relationship with clients.
Outreach across the pond
- Authors:
- WINCHESTER Ruth, LLOYD Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.4.02, 2002, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Assertive outreach is widely acknowledged as the way forward to improve quality of life for people in the community mental health problems. Looks at progress to date in the UK and describes how outreach teams work in the USA.
Independent and able to cope: evaluation of Working Together in London; an integrated mental health initiative
- Authors:
- LEE John, McCRONE Paul, FORD Richard
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health,|King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 66p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is an evaluation of the 'Working Together in London project', set up by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, the King's Fund and the DoH to support people with severe and long term mental health problems. This project examined the work of three assertive outreach teams in the capital. The full report of this project, draws out the key lessons for health and social care professionals, and offers guidance on how to put assertive outreach into practice.
Dual diagnosis screening: preliminary findings on the comparison of 50 clients attending community mental health services and 50 clients attending community substance misuse services
- Authors:
- MANNING V. C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Substance Use, 7(4), December 2002, pp.221-228.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In the current study clinicians administered a brief screening tool, which detects problematic alcohol, drug use, psychosis and common mental health symptoms, to 50 substance misuse and 50 mental health treatment attenders. Sixty-four per cent of the total sample screened positive for dual diagnosis (positive for any psychiatric disorder and either a drug or alcohol problem). Highest rates were observed in the alcohol sample (92.3%), followed by the drug sample (87.5%), and lowest in the community mental health (CMHT) sample (38%). Current depression and social phobia were most prevalent in alcohol clients compared to psychosis, mania and suicidal ideation in CMHT clients. Around one-third of CMHT clients reported using drugs (mainly cannabis) and around a fifth reported problematic alcohol use. The study demonstrates the feasibility of incorporating a dual diagnosis screen into routine clinical practice. The screen can be used in both mental health and substance misuse treatment settings, which are evidently managing complex client caseloads
The long arm of outreach
- Author:
- RYAN Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, December 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Looks at standard four of the National Service Framework for Mental Health and the role of assertive outreach teams in achieving this standard and the issues which affect them.
Breaking down the barriers in mental health
- Author:
- ROBERTS Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 9(1), September 2002, pp.12-16.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Reports on the Lambeth Mental Health Awareness Project which offers training and support to people and agencies that have contact with mental health service users. It aims to challenge stigma and discrimination and to break down the barriers to services, employment and training people with mental health problems.