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A problem shared
- Author:
- SHRUBB Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, February 2011, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is a training scheme designed to help people to spot the early signs of mental distress in young people. This article looks at the rationale for the scheme and provides an overview of its main elements.
Case study: Uthink: a third sector recovery learning programme for 14-25 year olds
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This case study describes the work of Uthink recovery learning programme, which is designed for 14-25 for olds experiencing, or at risk of developing, mental health problems (including those with first episode psychosis). The programme was originally run as a pilot in three sites across England, and included residential services, leadership, peer mentoring and modular-based elements. It aimed to improve young people's understanding of and ability to manage their mental health difficulties; help them to build peer relationships and network; and provide opportunities to learn new skills, including communication skills, and to have hope and aspirations for the future. Aspects of the pilot programmes are now being embedded into local services offered by Rethink in the East Midlands and Dorset areas. The case study provides background to the project, information on designing the services, intended outcomes, measuring impact and resources involved.
Parental mental health and families: working together with parents
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- London
This e-learning module sets out the principles that support partnership working with parents experiencing mental health problems. It considers how to use these principles to help families affected by parents with mental health difficulties to access and use support. It also examines how to use the family model to help balance the needs of the parent with those of the child when making decisions about child care. Individual sections cover: Partnership with parents; Early intervention and access; Exploring parenting issues; and Dealing with complexity.
Can a self-regulation skills and cultural arts program promote positive outcomes in mental health symptoms and academic achievement for at-risk youth?
- Authors:
- RAPP-PAGLICCI Lisa, STEWART Chris, ROWE William
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 37(3), May 2011, pp.309-319.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Self-regulation involves an integrated set of skills drawn from both executive functioning and emotional regulation capabilities. Previous research has demonstrated an association between youth with mental health, behavioural and academic problems and inadequate self-regulation skills. Self-regulation skills programmes and arts-based programmes have separately demonstrated reductions in internalising and externalising disorders and academic difficulties. This study sought to evaluate an after-school programme ‘Prodigy’, which incorporates both arts and self-regulation skills, with regard to changes in mental health symptoms and academic performance. Prodigy is an 8 week programme which offers at-risk youth in Florida the opportunity to participate in classes which use cultural arts as a medium to build self-regulation skills such as social skills, anger management, and problem-solving skills. A quasi-experimental pretest–posttest design was conducted with 108 at-risk adolescents and their parents to evaluate the programme effects. The results demonstrated significant reductions in internalising and externalising mental health symptoms and increases in academic self-efficacy. Positive, but not statistically significant, trends in improved academic achievement were also shown. Future research regarding the potential of arts and self-regulation programmes is discussed.
Mental health promotion and prevention: the economic case
- Authors:
- KNAPP Martin, MCDAID David, PARSONAGE Michael, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Health care systems are designed to improve health and health-related well-being, but are always constrained by the resources available to them. They also need to be aware of the resources available in adjacent systems which can have such an impact on health, such as housing, employment and education. Careful choices therefore have to be made about how to utilise what is available. One immediate consequence is to ask whether investment in the prevention of mental health needs and the promotion of mental wellbeing might represent a good use of available resources. This report identifies and analyses the costs and economic pay-offs of a range of interventions in the area of mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention, and to present this information in a way that would most helpfully support NHS and other commissioners in assessing the case for investment.
Mental health, employment and the social care workforce
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- London
This report summarises evidence on what prevents people with mental health problems from working or retaining work in social care and what can be done to enable them to work. It provides a summary of a range of policy and programmes designed to enable people with mental health problems to gain, retain and regain work, with specific focus on employment in social care. Sections cover: the importance of mental health in employment; what keeps people with mental health problems from working in social care?; law, policy and guidance related to mental health and employment; the social care workplace and mental health; what helps people with mental health problems gain and regain employment?; and who helps people with mental health problems gain and regain employment?. Staff highlighted are those in primary care, occupational health staff, human resources staff and line managers. Links to additional resources are also included.
Quick therapy the key to placement stability
- Author:
- HUNT Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.11.11, 2011, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A tiered CAMHS approach is helping to improve access to mental health services for looked after children and reduce placement breakdowns. It uses a team-around-the-child package of care, including a CAMHS psychologist, family placement officer, social workers and foster carer, with other practitioners co-opted as required. The team meets monthly to ensure the needs of the child are understood and acted upon.
Social approaches to mental distress
- Author:
- TEW Jerry
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 216p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book is a core text for students and practitioners of social work and other mental health disciplines. It suggests that an over-reliance on biological models in mental health practice has resulted in growing discontent from practitioners and service users, who know that social factors also have a major impact on people's mental health. Social approaches enable practitioners to promote recovery in ways that move beyond the limitations of biomedical treatments. The book offers a holistic model for understanding and responding to mental distress. It places mental health within its broader social context, encouraging engagement with not just the person experiencing mental distress, but also their family and wider social world. Chapters include: introduction; values and working relationships; understanding experiences of mental distress; life events and social circumstances – how damaging social experiences may contribute to mental distress; power, agency and social capital; personality adaptations, resilience and vulnerability; families, relationships and social systems; social models of mental distress; early intervention and crisis resolution; recovery and social inclusion; risk taking and safeguarding; assessment, action planning and self-directed support; and concluding comments – putting social theory and research into practice.
Effectiveness of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 11p., tables
- Place of publication:
- London
This statistical publication provides national and local level information on services provision that should be in place to meet the needs of children and young people with mental health problems effectively. The figures are based on local authorities self-assessment against four questions: the development and delivery of CAMHS for children and young people with learning disabilities; appropriate accommodation and support for 16/17 year olds; the availability of 24 hour cover to meet urgent mental health needs; the joint commissioning of early intervention support. A local authority total score is calculated by summing the scores from each of these four topics/questions. Average scores for England and for each Region are calculated by taking the average of Local Authority scores.
No health without mental health: a cross-government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages: supporting document: the economic case for improving efficiency and quality in mental health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document outlines the opportunities to make value for money savings in delivering mental health services using the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) approach. It also highlights the importance of promoting early intervention and prevention and how this can reduce costs by improving outcomes and increasing quality and productivity. Main sections cover: early identification and intervention of mental health problems; the promotion of positive mental health and prevention of mental disorder in childhood and adolescence; the promotion of positive mental health and prevention of mental disorder in adults; addressing the social determinants and consequences of mental health problems; and improving the quality and efficiency of current services. It supports the Government strategy 'No health without mental health: a cross-Government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages'.