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Think child, think parent, think family: a briefing for senior managers
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This ‘At a glance’ summary is aimed at senior managers and presents key recommendations from the SCIE guide 'Think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare'. The summary outlines the context, including lack of coordination of services, challenges for staff, financial restrictions and the growing change in policy direction towards supporting families and improving child health and wellbeing. It then makes key recommendations to improve services including taking a strategic multi-agency approach, leading cultural change, involving people who use services, embedding the whole-family approaches into quality systems, improving staff skills and knowledge and ensuring that information is gathered and made accessible. Experience at a number of pilot sites in local authorities in England and Northern Ireland highlights the importance of senior management involvement to the success of this approach.
More than shelter: supported accommodation and mental health
- Author:
- BOARDMAN Jed
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 36
- Place of publication:
- London
This report looks at evidence about the provision of supported housing for people with mental health problems in England, including those with multiple needs and substance misuse, and presents key themes for its future development. It highlights the significant links between housing and mental wellbeing, indicating that factors such as overcrowding, insufficient daylight and fear of crime all contribute to poorer mental health. The review identifies a wide range of types of housing support, including help for people to remain their own tenancies to specialist supported accommodation, hostels, crisis houses and the Housing First approach. Although the review identified limited evidence about what kinds of housing support are most effective and cost-effective, small-scale studies suggest that housing support can reduce the costs of hospital stays. When looking at the type of support people want, the literature found most people prefer help in their own homes to being in sheltered or transitional accommodation. The report calls for better provision of housing support and also argues that housing support should be funded jointly by local authorities and the NHS to ensure that services are delivered in partnership between health, housing and social care providers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Together we're stronger
- Author:
- FAREBROTHER Thomas
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, November/December 2014, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
In order to help statutory and voluntary sector services to support and meet the needs of people in a mental health crisis more effectively in Manchester, a Manchester's Crisis Provider's Forum was set up. It brings together representatives from Manchester's Mental Health Home Treatment Teams (MHHTs), Greater Manchester Police, voluntary sector organsiations, A&E psychiatric liason services, and Turning Point's Crisis Point service. Through partnership working the Forum aims to undertake a mapping to get a clear view of statutory and voluntary sector crisis provision across Manchester; to develop cross-agency and shared-care working; to identify caps in crisis provision; to promote the range of crisis services available though the development of a stepped care model of mental health crisis provision; and to work collaboratively to improve outcomes. (Edited publisher abstract)
The secondary family: the result of strong community partnering
- Author:
- CANT Irene R.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 12(3), October 2007, pp.30-33.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Support for individualism can leave marginalised people feeling even more isolated and hopeless. Families often help but can soon become emotionally depleted. The 'secondary family', created when community agencies partner with one another, can offer hope for stabilisation, if not recovery, for individuals living with mental illness. This article describes a Canadian programme where crisis services are working with police to de-escalate illness. The article describes a Canadian programme where crisis services are working with police to de-escalate psychiatric crisis. Shared goals bring crisis staff and police together to provide compassion, support and follow-up.
A life in the community: Home-Link; supporting people with mental health problems in ordinary housing
- Author:
- QUILGARS Deborah
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Home-Link is a living support network developed in 1995 in Yorkshire as an innovative interagency initiative set up to meet the long term housing and support needs of people with mental health problems. This report provides a detailed description of the Home-Link scheme; gives an overview of the project, looking at what difference it has made to people's lives; explores the benefits for interagency working; looks at the costs involved; and outlines the challenges facing agencies interested in developing and sustaining such a model.
Together we stand: effective partnerships; key indicators for joint working in mental health
- Authors:
- HANCOCK Mary, VILLENEAU Louise, HILL Robert
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 54p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Set of key indicators focusing on the essential elements required to achieve effective joint working between agencies responsible for planning, commissioning and providing mental health services. Includes the indicators on disc.
Parental mental health and child welfare - a young person's story
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
Of the 175,000 young carers identified in the 2001 census, 29 per cent – or just over 50,000 – were estimated to care for a family member with mental health problems (Dearden and Becker 2004). Not all children living with a parent with mental health problems will be carers but, for those that are, they can be involved in undertaking a variety of tasks including: advocacy, help with correspondence and bills, liaising with professionals, administering medicines, emotional support and domestic tasks. This film is about 18-year-old Cait who has been caring for her Mum since she was 7 years old. The film explores the importance of involving and assessing the needs of all family members from the outset. It describes Cait’s own experience of getting the support she needed and how agencies in Liverpool are working together to improve services for parents with mental health problems and their children.
Alcohol, drug and mental health problems: working with families
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, KEARNEY Patricia, LEVIN Enid, ROSEN Gwen
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a NISW research and development project looking at the interfaces within and between services for families where a parent has a persistent mental health, alcohol or drug problem. Services that have been set up to help the children and parents in such families are located in and administered by a number of different organisations. Effective collaboration, joint working across the many interfaces, and a focus on the family as a whole are essential if children and their parents are to receive appropriate help, advice and guidance.
Exploration of joint working practices on anti‐social behaviour between criminal justice, mental health and social care agencies: a qualitative study
- Authors:
- KRAYER Anne, ROBINSON Catherine A., POOLE Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 26(3), 2018, pp.e431-e441.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Although the police play an important role for people with mental health problems in the community, little is known about joint working practices between mental health, social care and police services. There is potential for tensions and negative outcomes for people with mental health problems, in particular when the focus is on behaviours that could be interpreted as anti‐social. This study explores perceptions about joint working between mental health, social care and police services with regard to anti‐social behaviour. It was a multi‐method sequential qualitative study in the UK collecting data between April 2014 and August 2016. Data were collected from two study sites: 60 narrative police logs of routinely gathered information, and semi‐structured interviews and focus groups with professionals from a range of statutory and third sector organisations (N = 55). Data sets were analysed individually, using thematic iterative coding before integrating the findings. Sequencing and turning points in the police logs, were also considered. Findings mapped on a continuum of joint working practices, with examples more likely to be away from the policy ideal of partnership working as being central to mainstream activities. Joint working was driven by legal obligations and concerns about risk rather than a focus on the needs of a person with mental health problems. This was complicated by different perceptions of the police role in mental health. Adding anti‐social behaviour to this mix intensified challenges as conceptualisation of the nature of the problem and agreeing on best practice and care is open to interpretations and judgements. Of concern is an evident lack of awareness of these issues. There is a need to reflect on joint working practices, including processes and goals, keeping in mind the health and welfare needs of people with mental health problems. (Edited publisher abstract)
Translating coercion policy into inter-organisational collaboration–the implementation of compulsory community care for people with mental illness
- Authors:
- ZETTERBERG Liv, MARKSTROM Urban, SJOSTROM Stefan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 45(4), 2016, pp.655-671.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
In 2008, compulsory community care (CCC) for people with severe mental illness was introduced in Sweden. CCC requires co-operation between psychiatric and social services, thus further complicating the longstanding difficulties with service coordination in the mental health field. This article investigates what happens when a new policy is introduced that assumes complex co-operation of two organisations bestowed with high degrees of discretion. The process of institutionalisation will be analysed in terms of how an idea is translated and materialised on local levels. This has been investigated by interviewing key informants within psychiatric and social services at three different locations. The implementation was perceived as relatively successful and occurred without major conflict. The main effect of the new legislation was improvement in the coordination of services, where designing a template form for a coordinated care plan was central. The inter-organisational discussions about service coordination that arose had a spill-over effect on services for other patient groups. In essence, respondents describe CCC as a pedagogical reform to promote the coordination of services, rather than a reform to increase coercive powers over patients. This raises concerns about the legitimacy of the reform. (Publisher abstract)