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Fundamental reforms: disempowerment and access to evidence-based treatment
- Author:
- DAVIS Gul Y.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 11(2), June 2006, pp.3-6.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The author, a service user with experience of mental health services, gives his views on the reasons for poor outcomes and difficulties experienced within mental health settings. He highlights the two central issues as: disempowerment of service users and the inability of most service users to access the body of knowledge about evidence-based treatments. The article sets out the arguments for his beliefs, and his arguments that tackling these issues should be at the core of any reform or restructuring that is serious about improving outcomes.
Gaining knowledge about parental mental illness: how does it empower children?
- Authors:
- GROVE Christine, REUPERT Andrea, MAYBERY Darryl
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 20(4), 2015, pp.377-386.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study examined the utility of a digital video disc (DVD) intervention, designed to educate children, whose parents have depression and/or anxiety. Twenty-nine children completed pre- and post-DVD exposure questionnaires, on mental health knowledge and help seeking, and 18 were interviewed about their experiences and use of the DVD. Post-DVD, children's knowledge of mental illness improved. The DVD also challenged mental illness misconceptions. Most children preferred watching the DVD with a parent. The study explains how children utilise information about mental illness. (Publisher abstract)
Mental health and personalisation: themes and issues in recovery-based mental health care and support
- Author:
- BOGG Daisy
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 174p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This workbook aims to help service users, carers and professionals work through the issues relating to recover-based mental health care and support. It draws on the capabilities from the 'The 10 Shared Capabilities: a framework for the whole of the mental health workforce' (Hope, 2004). It is divided into 10 sections based on these capabilities. Sections cover: working in partnership; respecting diversity; practising ethically; challenging inequality; promoting recovery; identifying people's needs and strengths; providing service user-centred care; making a difference; promoting safety and positive risk taking; and personal development and learning. Each section is subdivided into the individual competencies required for each capability. Activities and exercises are included to help the reader develop their understanding of the framework.
The European WHO mental health programme and the World Health Report 2001: input and implications
- Author:
- RUTZ Wolfgang
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 183(7), July 2003, pp.73-74.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The World Health Report 2001, subtitled Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope, has so far been presented in many member states at meetings with governmental participation and it continues to play a crucial role. It focuses on decentralisation and the need to establish community-based mental health services, giving the mentally vulnerable access to treatment at home, and utilising their social networks, existential identity and psychological environment. It focuses on the need for individual and societal empowerment, and public education about mental health, as well as the education of mental health professionals, family doctors, families and the social sector. It underlines the extreme and still increasing burden of depression and suicide and the need for inter-disciplinary teamwork. It advocates national mental health development, evidence-oriented research and awareness-raising activities.