Search results for ‘Subject term:"mental health problems"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 10 of 14
Mental health and barriers to employment
- Author:
- McART Dervala
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, 61(1), 2014, pp.85-87.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This report explores the numerous barriers to employment of people with experience of mental health conditions − namely discriminatory attitudes of employers, low expectations of health professionals and ineffective models of supported employment. The report highlights that in February 2013, over 724,000 people were claiming employment and support allowance because of mental and behavioural disorders. The report evidences that many of these people want to work and would like more help to return to employment, but they are lacking the necessary support from employers and health professionals, and are facing barriers created by employment models. (Publisher abstract)
Measuring access to social capital: the validity and reliability of the Resource Generator-UK and its association with common mental disorder
- Authors:
- WEBBER Martin P., HUXLEY Peter J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 65(3), August 2007, pp.481-492.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Resource generators measure an individual's access to social resources within their social network. They can facilitate the analysis of how access to these resources may assist recovery from illness. As these instruments are culture and context dependent different versions need to be validated for different populations. Further, they are yet to be subjected to a thorough content validation and their reliability and validity have not been established beyond an examination of their internal scales. This paper reports the validity and reliability of a version suitable for general population use in the UK. Firstly, a qualitative process of item selection and review through focus groups and an expert panel ensured that the resource items were relevant. Also, cognitive interviews identified any significant problems prior to extensive piloting. Then the authors examined its internal domains using Mokken scaling in a small general population survey (n=295). Its concurrent validity with a similar instrument was tested in a further pilot (n=335) and these findings were supported by a known-group validity study (n=65). Its reliability was established in a test–retest study (n=47) in addition to an examination of the reliability coefficients of the internal scales. The authors found that the Resource Generator-UK has good psychometric properties, though there is some variation in performance between items and scales. Further, they found an inverse relationship with common mental disorder in the second pilot.
Children of the millennium: understanding the course of conduct problems during childhood
- Authors:
- GUTMAN Leslie Morrison, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 50
- Place of publication:
- London
The findings of a project on children’s behaviour or conduct problems, which analysed data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a longitudinal study following a large sample of children born in 2000 and 2001. This report uses the longitudinal data to explore pathways of conduct problems during childhood in three main areas: comparing the pathways by gender; the impact of multiple risks over time; and pathways of conduct disorder for children with multiple mental health difficulties. The results found that that one child in every twelve in the UK has behavioural problems from a young age into their teenage years. The findings show that children with persistent problems are much more likely to have a multitude of risks early in life, including poverty and housing insecurity, parental mental illness and developmental delay. Based on the findings, the report makes a series of recommendations for local authority public health departments, NHS England and wider Government. These include action to reduce child poverty and housing insecurity, increased mental health support to new parents, and additional funding for local authorities to boost early years services such as Sure Start and to offer evidence-based parenting programmes to families with the greatest needs. (Edited publisher abstract)
Dosed up...let down?
- Author:
- FERNANDEZ Ana Olea
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, September 2012, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The author, a frontline social worker, looks at the need for social workers to advocate on behalf of looked-after children in instances where their psychiatric diagnosis, the medications prescribed, may be inappropriate and just a way of overlooking underlying problems. The dangers of misinterpreting the effects of childhood trauma as specific disorders which require anti-psychotic drugs are discussed.
Outcomes of conduct problems in adolescence: 40 year follow-up of national cohort
- Authors:
- COLMAN Ian, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 24.1.09, 2008, pp.208-211.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
To describe long term outcomes associated with externalising behaviour in adolescence, defined in this study as conduct problems reported by a teacher, in a population based sample. A longitudinal study was used from age 13-53. Participants were 3,652 survey members assessed by their teachers for symptoms of externalising behaviour at age 13 and 15. Main outcome measures used were mental disorder, alcohol abuse, relationship difficulties, highest level of education, social class, unemployment, and financial difficulties at ages 36-53. 348 adolescents were identified with severe externalising behaviour, 1051 with mild externalising behaviour, and 2253 with no externalising behaviour. All negative outcomes measured in adulthood were more common in those with severe or mild externalising behaviour in adolescence, as rated by teachers, compared with those with no externalising behaviour. Adolescents with severe externalising behaviour were more likely to leave school without any qualifications, as were those with mild externalising behaviour, compared with those with no externalising behaviour. On a composite measure of global adversity throughout adulthood that included mental health, family life and relationships, and educational and economic problems, those with severe externalising behaviour scored significantly higher (40.1% in top quarter), as did those with mild externalising behaviour (28.3%), compared with those with no externalising behaviour (17.0%). Adolescents who exhibit externalising behaviour experience multiple social and health impairments that adversely affect them, their families, and society throughout adult life.
`I didn't violent punch him': parental accounts of punishing children with mental health problems
- Author:
- O'REILLY Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Therapy, 30(3), August 2008, pp.272-295.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper examines the ways in which parents attending family therapy report how they discipline their children. The children are reported to have mental health problems and by the nature of their disorders present challenging behaviours. Within the family therapy setting, parents account for their methods of punishment which includes threatening, punching, hitting and smacking with belts. They report desires to inflict physical damage upon the child, contrast their punishment strategies against the extremeness of the child and co-construct the essential and necessary nature of the discipline. Investigating parental perspectives has wider implications for child discipline and child protection and the growing social impact of discipline techniques for policy-makers.
Reflections from the edge
- Author:
- HUNNYBELL Darrel
- Journal article citation:
- Therapy Today, 17(7), September 2006, pp.17-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
The author reflects on his counselling work in a local authority secondary school for boys with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Steps to inclusion
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.09.06, 2006, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government is promising "immediate action" to reduce the social exclusion of several vulnerable groups. This article looks at three of these plans: developing intensive interventions at home to tackle childhood mental health and conduct disorders; encouraging employment for those suffering from more severe mental health problems; and piloting of budge-holding practitioner model for children with additional needs. The author argues that for any of these to succeed, extra funding, training and support for practitioners will be needed.
How mental illness loses out in the NHS
- Author:
- LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Centre for Economic Performance. Mental Health Policy Group
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics, Centre for Economic Performance
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report, written by a team of economists, psychologists, doctors and NHS managers, looks at the scale of mental illness in Britain and the priority the NHS gives to treating these conditions. It is stated that only a quarter of all those people with mental illness are in treatment, compared with the vast majority of those with physical conditions. Within the term 'mental illness' the report includes in its coverage clinical depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and children conduct disorder. The report covers: the scale and severity of mental illness; the costs of mental illness to the NHS; the wider costs of mental illness to the government and to society; what treatments exist, such as psychological therapies and how successful and cost-effective they are; the extent to which treatments are available in the NHS, and the policy implications of our conclusions. The report makes six key recommendations. These include need to complete the national roll-out of Improved Access to Psychological Therapy by 2014, reflect IATP outcomes in the NHS Outcomes Framework, and the training of GPs in IAPT or CAMHS services.
Is there an income gradient in child health?: it depends on whom you ask
- Authors:
- JOHNSTON David W., et al
- Publisher:
- Institute for Social and Economic Research
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 24p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Colchester
This research uses data from two British surveys conducted in 1999 and 2004, which looked at three aspects of children’s (11 and 15 years) developmental state - emotional difficulties, behaviour disorders and hyperactivity - from a parent, teacher, child (him/herself) and psychiatrist perspective. The study aimed to measure the reliability of using just one observer’s perspective in this area of research. Large differences existed between the four observer’s assessments, with low correlations between parents, teachers and children in terms of their Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) scores. Children assessed themselves more harshly than either teachers or parents, (teachers reported fewer symptoms than parents). Analysis of the income gradient estimated from data derived from one category of observer can result in different conclusions. Using SDQ scores a significant income gradient for emotional difficulties, behaviour disorders and hyperactivity is shown using parents’ or teachers’ assessments, whereas children’s self-assessments suggest an income gradient only exists for emotional difficulties. If these scores were used diagnostically quite different groups of cases would show as having mental health problems and those, in turn would differ significantly from psychiatric diagnoses. It is suggested that findings in this area may not robust and interpretations should define the source of the assessment.