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Child and adolescent mental health services in Brixton and Croydon
- Authors:
- CHISHOLM Daniel, BYRNE Patrick, CROFT Carla
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Research Review, 6, May 1999, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
Summarises the results of a study to develop a system for the evaluation of child and adolescent mental health services, based upon a battery of measures of process and outcome. The study assesses the reliability of these measures and collects data on all services and supports which children in the sample receive, in order to calculate costs associated with the two models of service delivery. The sample consists of children aged between 5 and 11 who attended at least one out-patient session with emotional or conduct disorders.
The mental health residential care study: the costs of provision
- Authors:
- CHISHOLM Daniel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 6(1), February 1997, pp.85-99.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article sets out the methods used to undertake the costing of mental health residential care and describes the accommodation and non-accommodation costs of facilities covered by the survey and the people resident within them. The costs of accommodation tended to be lowest in the private sector, followed by the voluntary sector. The highest accommodation costs were observed for NHS facilities. This is in contrast to non-accommodation costs, which are lowest for residents in specialised hospital settings and highest for those in community settings with lower levels of on-site support, such as group homes. Comments that these cost differences between alternative settings and sectors may reflect different resident, facility and area characteristics, an hypothesis which is under further investigation.