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Children with mental disorder and the law: a guide to law and practice
- Author:
- HARBOUR Anthony
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 245p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Children and young people with complex mental health needs are increasingly being cared for within specialist mental health care settings, either in the community or in in-patient facilities. With rapid social developments, it can be difficult for carers and practitioners to keep track of the law in this area. This book provides a guide to the law relating to mental health care for children and young people, their rights and entitlement to service, and discusses important issues in clinical and social care practice such as parental responsibility, Gillick competency and capacity, emergency intervention and detention, assessment of mental illness and confidentiality in practice. A chapter written by Mary Mitchell considers the diagnosis and management of complex mental illness in young people, and a concluding chapter discusses changes in the law.
Mental Health: digging for victory
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Lindsay, HILL Robert Gareth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.11.95, 1995, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Blackthorn Trust in Kent is running a project, the Blackthorn Garden for people with long-term mental health problems. Reports on how the project has successfully integrated health and social care needs.
Enabling older people with mental health needs to engage with community social care: a scoping review to inform a theory of change
- Authors:
- NEWBOULD Louise, TUCKER Susan, WILBERFORCE Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(4), 2022, pp.1286-1306.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Despite apparent need, many older people with cognitive impairment and/or mental health needs do not fully engage with social care. This can manifest in different ways, including passive or aggressive attempts to avoid or repel care workers. However, little is known about how to support such individuals in their own homes and deliver effective care. Against this background, the researchers undertook a scoping review with a view to developing a preliminary theory of change suggesting how care might be modified to engage this client group. The most recent search was conducted on 21/04/21. Papers were included if they (i) focused on older people (65+) living at home with social care needs and (ii) described difficulties/problems with the provision/receipt of social care associated with individuals’ mental health needs. Twenty-six citations were identified through electronic database searches and reference screening, and the results were charted according to key theory of change concepts (long-term outcomes, preconditions, interventions, rationale and assumptions). All the included papers were related to people with dementia. Four subgroups of papers were identified. The first highlights those external conditions that make it more likely an intervention will be successful; the second describes specific interventions to engage older people who by virtue of their mental health needs have not engaged with social care; the third explores what services can be done to increase service uptake by older people with mental health needs and their caregivers more generally; and the fourth details theoretical approaches to explaining the behaviour of people with dementia. Each provides information that could be used to inform care delivery and the development of interventions to improve engagement with health and social care for these individuals. The study concludes that different framing of engagement difficulties, such as that offered through positioning theory, may assist in future service design. (Edited publisher abstract)
Successful strategies for discharging Medicaid nursing home residents with mental health diagnoses to the community
- Authors:
- LEEDAHL Skye N., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 41(2), 2015, pp.172-192.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
To examine the effectiveness of discharge strategies targeted to residents' diverse needs this exploratory, mixed-methods study utilized the Minimum Data Set to describe demographics, health characteristics, and transition patterns of Kansas Medicaid residents with mental health diagnoses who were discharged from nursing homes from 2005 to 2008. Discharged residents (n = 720) had multiple comorbidities, and more than half remained in the community following their first nursing home event. In-depth interviews with nursing home staff (n = 11) explored successful discharge strategies. Successful strategies support an ecological approach to meeting individual, family, organizational, and community needs. This includes creating/sustaining a culture of discharge, encompassing informal and formal community supports in the discharge process, proactively addressing physical environment needs, and assisting individuals and their family members in managing physical and mental health conditions. Findings suggest that policies in the areas of preadmission screening, caregiver support, and revised Medicaid reimbursement are needed to better support continuity of care and promote discharge for nursing home residents with complex care needs. Future research could examine individual and family perspectives on the discharge process and track outcomes when transitioning between settings. (Edited publisher abstract)
SAP ability assessment for older people: the CAPs manual
- Author:
- MDS-HC OVERVIEW COMMITTEE
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 176p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This manual explains how the information gathered from the assessment of the care needs of older people trigger Client Assessment Protocols (CAPs). These are guidelines for best practice in care planning and service delivery which correspond to aspects of daily living in the community, and it is likely that, on average, a person requiring community care services will trigger about ten of these. CAPs relate to the following categories: functional performance; sensory performance including communication disorders; mental health issues including cognition, depression and older person abuse; health aspects including cardio-respiratory problems, dehydration, falls, pressure ulcers and skin conditions; service oversight including palliative care and medication management; and continence.
Needs assessment and community care: clinical practice and policy making
- Editor:
- BALDWIN Steve
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Reviews approaches to needs assessment and shows how they allow more precise focusing on requirements for individuals. Includes papers on: where theory of need meets practice in mental health services; the conceptual foundation of assessing health care needs; assessment of need and case management; needs assessment in a rehabilitation service; assessing the needs of people with severe mental health problems; needs assessment in older people suffering from communication difficulties and or cognitive impairment; choice in community care; feminist perspectives on community care in Australia; aspects of informal care in Northern Ireland; psychosocial intervention in nursing; Slovene mental health services; care of people with chronic mental disorders - a European/American perspective; the process of transforming an old fashioned hospital into a modern treatment centre; survivor led research in human services; and assessing learning outcomes in post-qualifying community care training.
Long-term care: future provision and funding; minutes of evidence, Thursday 14 December 1995
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 163p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Service framework for learning disability
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 157
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This Service framework for learning disabilities is one of a set of Service Frameworks which sets out standards for health and social care to be used by service users and carers, to help them understand the standard of care they can expect to receive in Northern Ireland. The Service Framework for Learning Disability aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people with a learning disability and their carers and families by promoting social inclusion, reducing inequalities in health and social wellbeing and improving the quality of health and social care services. The Framework sets standards in relation to: Safeguarding and Communication and Involvement in the Planning and Delivery of Services; Children and Young People; Entering Adulthood; Inclusion in Community Life; Meeting General Physical and Mental Health Needs; Meeting Complex Physical and Mental Health Needs; At Home in The Community; Ageing Well; and Palliative and End of Life Care. Each standard is accompanied by a statement on what the standard is intended to achieve. It also sets out the evidence base and rationale for the development of the standard and the performance indicators that will be used to measure that the standard during the three year period 2013 - 2016. The Framework has been developed with the involvement of people from all aspects of health and social care, including patients, users of services and their carers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Quality in later life: rights, rhetoric and reality: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, (30th:Stirling; 2002, 31 August-2 September)
- Editors:
- TESTER S, ARCHIBALD C, ROWLINGS C, TURNER S
- Publisher:
- Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 294p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
These conference papers explore the issue of quality in later life, the factors that affect older people's experience and their understanding of what matters to them. Gerontologists have much to contribute both to analysis and the promotion of quality in old age. This contribution continues to develop the means by which older people, including those with significant mental or physical disabilities can make themselves participate in the debates by defining their own experiences and what makes a difference to them.