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Treatment services and services and service delivery models for dually diagnosed clients: variations across mental health and substance abuse providers
- Authors:
- GIL-RIVAS Virginia, GRELLA Christine E.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 41(3), June 2005, pp.251-266.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This paper reports on a survey of 26 administrators and 248 staff in 10 mental health and 16 substance abuse programmes in Los Angeles County providing services to individuals with co-occurring disorders. Although half or more of the administrators and staff reported that their programmes had some degree of on-site service integration, there was a lack of agreement within most programmes as to the extent of integration. Characteristics of services provided and interactions with other service providers are also examined. The authros conclude that future research is needed regarding the divergent perceptions of administrators and staff and their relationship to treatment outcomes.
See beyond the label
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.4.03, 2003, p.44.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the Behaviour Resource Service which offers severely damaged young people in Southampton an alternative to the prospect of life in a psychiatric hospital or years of residential care. The service is a child and adolescent mental health innovations project originally funded by the Department of Health with matching local funding.
The Team around the child: multi-agency service coordination for children with complex needs and their families; a manual for service development
- Author:
- LIMBRICK Peter
- Publisher:
- Interconnections
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 39p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The increasing number of children who have multiple and complex disabilities has highlighted the need for new systems of service provision in which health, education and social services and the voluntary sector join together to offer the child and the family a coordinated approach. Although this need is recognised by all tiers of government the call for coordination needs to be accompanied by more practical suggestions as to how to achieve it.
A model program for the treatment of mentally ill offenders in the community
- Authors:
- ROSKES Erik, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 35(5), October 1999, pp.461-472.
- Publisher:
- Springer
There is a recent growing interest among community mental health service providers in the United States about 'correctional psychiatry', and attention is being paid to the treatment of mentally disordered offenders. This article introduces the reader to the magnitude of the correctional system and to the prevalence of mental health problems among the correctional population. Several model programmes designed for work with mentally disordered offenders are discussed, and a collaborative approach between community mental health services and a probation office is described. Barriers to treatment such as stigma, lack of support and dual diagnosis are also explored.
Suicide among drug addicts in the UK
- Authors:
- OYEFESO Adenekan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 175, September 1999, pp.277-282.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This study examines suicide trends among registered addicts in the UK over a 25-year period. The findings confirm that addicts are still at higher risk of suicide than the general population and that prescribed drugs, notably antidepressants and methadone, influence this heightened risk. Multidisciplinary assessment of drug addicts should include suicide risk.
Comfort and light
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.11.94, 1994, p.24.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Roshni Ghar project which is based in the Bradford town of Keighley is a mental health day care centre for Asian women. The key to the success of the centre is that tranquillisers are replaced with "talking treatment". Reports on how the project works.
Improving quality in primary care: a practical guide to the national service framework for mental health
- Authors:
- GASK Linda, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The aim of this handbook is to provide a simple practical guide to the National Service Framework (NSF) for Mental Health which was published by the Government in 1999. The guide is mainly for people working in primary care. It suggests what Primary Care Groups and Primary Care Trusts can do to meet the expectations of the NSF, and also what individual practices and practitioners can do. There are several issues that cut across the standards and will offer a particular challenge to primary care viz: ensuring primary care reaches out to the socially excluded; providing training so that primary care professionals have the skills and knowledge to deal effectively with mental health problems; addressing current inequities of access to services; developing care pathways and protocols; defining severely mentally ill; providing for the mental health and other needs of carers by working with social care agencies and the voluntary sector; and preventing suicide through assessment of risk and crisis management.