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More than just a check up
- Author:
- GOVEANS Asha
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 01.02.06, 2006, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
The author reports on the Health Care initiative, which is making sure the emotional health of children in care is being looked after, as well as their physical health. The programme was developed by the National Children's Bureau (NCB) and funded by the Department for Education and Skills, to provide local authorities with a standard, a template and tools to develop these qualities.
Understanding our bodies, understanding ourselves: the menstrual cycle, mental health and women with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- DITCHFIELD Hedy, BURNS Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.24-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reviews the evidence for vulnerability in women with learning disabilities to a range of physical and mental health problems, with special emphasis on menstruation. Describes a qualitative research project on the experience of learning-disabled women in relation to menstruation, concluding by emphasising the need for services to communicate information on this subject in more sensitive and appropriate ways.
Women with learning disabilities and menstruation
- Author:
- RODGERS Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.33-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the importance of menstruation, the unhappy experiences with it of many women with learning disabilities, arguments that it should be suppressed, menstruation and womanhood, and what can be done and is being done to improve things. Concludes more profound change can only occur through the empowerment of women with learning disabilities through self-advocacy, disability rights and women's movements.
Housing renewal and mental health: A case study
- Authors:
- BLACKMAN Tim, HARVEY John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(5), October 2001, pp.571-583.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents findings from a study of the mental health of residents before and after a neighbourhood renewal programme. A total of 415 household interviews were completed prior to the renewal work and 234 after completion of the work. Self-report data were collected about housing defects; perceptions of the neighbourhood; symptomatic health including symptoms of psychological distress; use of general practitioner services, hospitals and medication; and demographic, economic and lifestyle factors. Following the renewal work, improvements occurred in both adults' and children's levels of psychological distress. Concludes that neighbourhood renewal in deprived areas is likely to have a role in improving mental health among local populations. More evidence about this relationship would help to inform how to approach neighbourhood renewal, including decisions about renewal priorities and whether to demolish or refurbish substandard housing.
Parental perceptions of the importance of adolescent mental health information
- Authors:
- FOSTER Lovie Jewell Jackson, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 40(3), 2015, pp.e117-e125.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Improving health care providers’ ability to address adolescent mental health is a major public health priority. Because parents are a critical gateway to children’s health care, this study investigated factors related to parents’ perceived need for mental health information to help their adolescent child. In this cross-sectional survey of parents accompanying adolescents in two urban paediatric health care practices in the United States, parents ranked adolescent preventive health topics they believed were most important to receive information about to ensure the health of their adolescent. Multivariable logistic regression determined correlates of parental perceptions. Among the 265 parent participants, 60 percent identified at least one mental health topic as important. These parents were more likely to be white, to recall a health care provider discussing adolescent mental health, and to be accompanying an adolescent for an acute care or referral visit. Parents were less likely to see a need for mental health information if the study clinic was their child’s usual source of care. Findings suggest that many parents are receptive to receiving mental health information in paediatric primary care settings. Future research is needed to understand racial differences in parental receptivity to mental health information in paediatric primary care settings and ways to effectively deliver preventive mental health information. (Edited publisher abstract)
The Physical Health Check: a tool for mental health workers
- Authors:
- PHELAN Michael, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 13(3), June 2004, pp.277-284.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The physical health of people with mental illness is often poor. There is a need for mental health services to address the issue. The Physical Health Check (PHC) is a short tool designed to be used by mental health staff to assess physical health needs. It was developed by a multidisciplinary research group, with the intention that it should be quick and easy to use, and acceptable to service users. When administered to 60 CMHT clients a high level of unmet physical needs were detected. These included the need for health promotion, as well as specific medical or other interventions. A comparison with routine practice in a neighbouring CMHT, suggests that use of the PHC significant improves the recording of physical health information. PHC is a useful tool, designed to be used routinely by mental health staff to assess physical health needs.
Enough respect
- Author:
- GAZE Harriet
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 4.1.01, 2001, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
NHS psychiatric services have a grim record when it comes to dealing with black and minority ethnic clients. Reports on how some units are beginning to show more respect for cultural and spiritual needs.
Is partnership possible
- Author:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 104, July 2000, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The author wonders if past experience can help mental health services really engage in partnership. Looks at the realities of partnership in mental health, some of the barriers, and what the future holds.
Bereaved family's fury at prison care
- Author:
- RYAN Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 27.4.00, 2000, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The mother of a young man who killed himself in Wandsworth Prison says that low health standards in prison are causing the deaths of vulnerable people.
What is the relationship between general practitioners' community referrals, and hospital referrals to an old age psychiatric service
- Authors:
- BUTLER R., OYEWOLE D., PITT B.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 4(1), February 2000, pp.79-81.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
There is a large variation in the referral rates of general practitioners (GPs) to specialist services. There is also evidence that GPs under-refer patients with dementia and depression to old age psychiatric services. However, little is known about individual GP referral rates of these services. Patients may be referred to psychiatric services by GPs in the community (community referrals), or by physicians or surgeons, while the patients are receiving medical or surgical care in hospital (hospital referrals). One way of controlling for GP variables, such as practice size and the age profile of patients, may be to examine the relationship between hospital and community referrals for each GP. The study hypothesised that there would be a positive correlation between these types of referral.