Community Care Management and Planning, 2(6), December 1994, pp.197-198.
Publisher:
Pavillion
Describes new services which have been launched in East Birmingham for people with mental health problems and explains the rationale behind implementing a whole-district dispersed-service model for adult acute services.
Describes new services which have been launched in East Birmingham for people with mental health problems and explains the rationale behind implementing a whole-district dispersed-service model for adult acute services.
Subject terms:
hospitals, interagency cooperation, mental health problems, mental health services, models, service users, social care provision, adults, community care, cutbacks;
Practical text offering guidance to successful inter-agency work between police officers and social workers. Also offers a critical examination of how it is carried out in practice, and contains chapters specifically on child protection, mental disorder, violence in the home, young offenders, and community policing.
Practical text offering guidance to successful inter-agency work between police officers and social workers. Also offers a critical examination of how it is carried out in practice, and contains chapters specifically on child protection, mental disorder, violence in the home, young offenders, and community policing.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, interprofessional relations, mental health problems, police, social workers, young offenders, child protection, domestic violence;
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.
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.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health problems, social services, social care provision, treatment, therapy and treatment, tranquillisers, voluntary organisations, women, Asian people, black and minority ethnic people, day centres;
Describes a mental health support team in Nottingham which has found new ways to help homeless mentally ill people. The team is located and managed in the voluntary sector, but is integrated into health and social services networks.
Describes a mental health support team in Nottingham which has found new ways to help homeless mentally ill people. The team is located and managed in the voluntary sector, but is integrated into health and social services networks.
Subject terms:
homeless people, homelessness, interagency cooperation, mental health, mental health problems, needs, social services, social care provision, voluntary organisations, voluntary sector, health care;
Prison Service Journal, 95, September 1994, pp.42-45.
Publisher:
Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
In North Humberside, a diversion project has been developed by a multi-agency steering group chaired by the Director of North Humberside MIND. The steering group manages, via a small management sub-group, a project team, comprising a probation officer, an approved social worker and two community psychiatric nurses. They assess persons in police custody and prisoners at court. When mentally disordered offenders are identified they will arrange a package of care.
In North Humberside, a diversion project has been developed by a multi-agency steering group chaired by the Director of North Humberside MIND. The steering group manages, via a small management sub-group, a project team, comprising a probation officer, an approved social worker and two community psychiatric nurses. They assess persons in police custody and prisoners at court. When mentally disordered offenders are identified they will arrange a package of care.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health, mental health problems, offenders, police, probation service, psychiatric social work, prisons, severe mental health problems, social care provision, approved social workers, community care, community mental health nurses, diversion;
Prison Service Journal, 95, September 1994, pp.45-48.
Publisher:
Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
Describes the work of the Wessex Project which is joint funded by the Mental Health Foundation and the statutory agencies. It aims to establish an inter-agency network of referral from within prisons holding Hampshire prisoners and to co-ordinate care and services for the mentally disordered to be taken up on their release.
Describes the work of the Wessex Project which is joint funded by the Mental Health Foundation and the statutory agencies. It aims to establish an inter-agency network of referral from within prisons holding Hampshire prisoners and to co-ordinate care and services for the mentally disordered to be taken up on their release.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health, mental health problems, offenders, probation service, prisons, severe mental health problems, social services, social care provision, community care, health care;
Suicide, depression, and isolation are just three of the consequences of allocating fewer case workers to people with severe mental health problems. Looks at the ways in which social services can help these vulnerable clients
Suicide, depression, and isolation are just three of the consequences of allocating fewer case workers to people with severe mental health problems. Looks at the ways in which social services can help these vulnerable clients
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, schizophrenia, severe mental health problems, social services, social care provision, care management, community care, health care;