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Betting on a different horse: a qualitative analysis of mental health in health promotion policies
- Authors:
- SOLIN Pia, LEHTO Juhani
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 3(3), September 2004, pp.8-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Aims to analyse the position and role of mental health in health promotion policy. Policy documents from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, England and Portugal indicate that, although mental health is considered a serious issue, it is problematic in policy terms. Arguments make the case for the importance of mental health within the health promotion agenda, including the classification of mental illness as a public health problem, socio-economic and individual costs of mental health problems, and the view that mental wellbeing is a crucial element of overall health. However, problems of definition and measurement, and a traditional focus on treatment and care, continue to make mental health promotion problematic for policy makers.
Whole prison, whole person: how a holistic approach can support good mental health in prison
- Author:
- CLINKS
- Publisher:
- Clinks
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
This report sets out key principles and recommendations towards developing a whole prison approach to good mental health for people in contact with the criminal justice system, especially those with protected characteristics. It highlights the barriers experience in maintaining their mental health and wellbeing in prison. It outlines three key principles in order to develop a foundation for a holistic approach to support good mental health: Respond to everyone's needs - including people from groups protected under the Equality Act (2010); Continuity of care throughout an individual's sentence - including entering and leaving custody and transferring between custodial settings; and Creating a wellbeing culture for all that is embedded in the structure and core business of all those working in the custodial estate. The report was commissioned by the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance and in particular highlights the role of the voluntary sector in supporting a whole prison approach to mental health care. It has been informed by a literature review and two workshops with representatives from the voluntary and public sectors. Case studies of good practice are included. (Edited publisher abstract)
Neglected minds: a report on mental health support for young people leaving care
- Author:
- SMITH Nicholas
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- London
This report looks at the mental health needs of care leavers and what could be done to better support them. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative research carried out with Barnardo's services, the research found that 46 per cent of the Barnardo's care leaver cases which were reviewed as part of the research involved young people who had mental health needs. In addition, 65 per cent of young people identified as having mental health needs were not currently receiving any statutory service. Barriers facing care leavers in accessing support included: information about mental health needs not being passed to leaving care teams; those supporting care leavers, such as personal advisers lacking expertise in mental health; and mental health services available are often too inflexible to meet the needs of care leavers. The report highlights good practice ideas to help overcome these barriers and better support care leavers with mental health needs. These include embedding mental health workers in leaving care teams, youth specific provision designed around the needs of young people and more training for personal advisers. (Edited publisher abstract)
The mental health needs of black and minority ethnic communities in Chapeltown and Harehills: report to Leeds Adult Social Care
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Sharon, et al
- Publisher:
- Volition
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 89p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This study, initiated by the BME Advisory Group to the Mental Health Modernisation Team and paid for by Leeds Adult Social Care, was commissioned to inform decisions on how to spend the monies that were freed up by the closure of the Black Mental Health Resource Centre in 2004. The research aimed to: produce a brief needs-analysis of the mental health support needs of the BME community in Chapeltown and Harehills mapped against existing services available to this group; identify models of service delivery that is likely to be most effective in meeting the prioritised needs; make recommendations about the best use of the ring-fenced resources allocated; work on behalf of the commissioners and in partnership with the BME Advisory Group of the Leeds Mental Health Modernisation Team; to produce a service specification for provision of new services and use this to inform a tendering process to award contracts to the successful provider/s. Key findings are thematically grouped into: appropriate and responsive services; effective communication; building capacity; children, families and young people; older people; and cares.
Commissioning services for older people and mental health problems: is there a shared vision?
- Authors:
- TUCKER Sue, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 15(2), April 2007, pp.3-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
UK policy seeks to shift commissioning of services 'closer to people' with a view to establishing shared visions of local care services grounded in the opinions and priorities of the public. But the participation of older people with mental health problems and their carers in the strategic planning process has been patchy. This article compares practitioner and public perspectives of the services that should be provided for older people with mental health problems in an area of North West England. Significant differences were found in the services the various stakeholder groups prioritised for development, and in their views on how they should be organised. The implications for commissioning are discussed.
Stressed out and struggling project report 1: service-mapping
- Authors:
- PUGH Kathryn, MEIER Richard
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report details the results of a qualitative mapping of how well Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England and Scotland consider they are meeting the mental health needs of 16-25 year-old young adults. This publication is one of a series of outputs from the Stressed Out and Struggling (SOS) Project, funded by the Big Lottery Fund. The project aims to raise awareness of the mental health needs of 16-25 year-olds and to improve access to mental health services for this age group. The report is aimed at commissioners and providers of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), as it offers services and commissioners the opportunity to compare how well they are meeting the needs of young adults with respondents to the survey. In 2005 we wrote to all PCTs to ask them to complete two questionnaires about a range of topics relating to the provision of mental health services for 16-18 year-olds and 19-25 year-olds
Information for higher education institutions on helping students with personality disorder or personality difficulties
- Author:
- YOUNGMINDS
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper is intended for heads of student support services, student counselling service managers, mental health co-ordinators, disability support teams, hall managers, wardens, heads of academic departments and academics. It has been written in order to help Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) deal appropriately and helpfully with students who can be described as having significant personality difficulties or who have a diagnosis of personality disorder. The information in this paper has been geared towards this wide audience because of the nature of the problems that personality difficulties can give rise to. Wardens, academics and student support service staff can all be affected by the problems (and sometimes uproar) that can result when people with these difficulties are struggling to cope with everyday situations and relationships with others; and it is hoped that this paper will provide some insight into managing and helping students with these problems. Although this paper employs a psychiatric model, it does not set out to medicalise or pathologise people’s behaviour; rather, the model is merely being used in order to describe particular behaviours and experiences. There is considerable debate within the mental health community as to whether the concept of personality disorder adequately captures the experience of people identified as personality-disordered, and some question what relevance the term has in non-medical settings, such as Higher Education; some people have reservations about using the term at all.
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.
Youth opportunities
- Author:
- SMITH Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 10.8.04, 2004, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
The author, who has pioneered a model of good practice in the newly established youth offending teams, explains how mental and physical health needs of clients are being addressed.