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Strengthening social networks: intervention strategies for mental health case managers
- Authors:
- BIEGEL David E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 19(3), August 1994, pp.206-216.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The enhancement of social support networks for people with chronic mental illness is seen as an important thrust of case management services in the USA. However, despite the worthy intentions of the National Institute of Mental Health Community Support Program, the development of comprehensive, community-based social support systems for people with chronic mental illness remains an elusive goal. Case managers face many obstacles in their efforts to enhance the natural support systems of their clients, and they need specific training in social network interventions with individuals with mental illness to overcome these obstacles. This article presents a conceptual framework of social network interventions and discusses obstacles to enhancing natural support systems. The need for community resource development, especially in the building of community ties, is highlighted.
Can the police establish a caring role in community mental health procedures?
- Author:
- STEPHENS Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care in Place the International Journal of Networks and Community, 1(1), March 1994, pp.65-77.
The policy in both the USA and the UK of closing mental hospitals and decanting patients into the community has resulted in enormous problems for the police. Handling people with thought disorders or with psychotic behaviour has proved to be both frustrating and time consuming for many police officers, especially since they lack any immediate support form mental health agencies. The development of crisis intervention schemes along the lines of the one operating in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, would serve to benefit the community-based treatment of people with mental health problems and the interests of the police.
Social support resource outcomes for the clients of two assertive community treatment teams
- Author:
- WALSH Joseph
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 4(4), October 1994, pp.448-463.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Persons with serious mental illness require natural as well as professional supports to maintain successful community integration. Assertive community treatment programs have become preferred treatment modalities in the USA for working with such clients, but their potential for developing natural social support resources has not been examined adequately. In this project, two types of community treatment teams were studied, one featuring the extensive use of group treatment modalities and the other using individual client/case manager interventions, with regard to social support outcomes for clients.
Editorial: psychiatric services for elderly people: evaluating system performance
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 9(4), 1994, pp.259-272.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Aims to clarify some of the concepts and terminology of health system evaluation; to draw on published literature to exemplify these concepts; and to discuss some of the implications of routinely evaluating a system rather than scientifically evaluating particular interventions or programmes. Concludes by arguing that the evaluation of psychiatric services for elderly persons is best achieved by the construction of relatively simple models from an array of complex knowledge.
MERIT still in the pioneering role
- Authors:
- DAY Tony, LOMAS Dr Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(2), December 1994, pp.29-30.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
A pioneering multi-disciplinary team formed to help elderly people with mental health problems and their carers is now facing the challenge of fitting into a authority-wide commissioning and care management. The successes and failures of the Middleton Elderly Resource and Intervention Team (MERIT) are described.
Communication-based intervention for problem behavior: a user's guide for producing positive change
- Authors:
- CARR Edward G., et al
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 274p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Step by step guide to innovative methods for managing problem behaviour in people with learning difficulties, or with mental health problems. Contains chapters on: crisis management and functional assessment; the core intervention; and additional procedures and programming for generalisation and maintenance.
The dynamics of race and gender: some feminist interventions
- Editors:
- AFSHAR Haleh, MAYNARD Mary
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 270p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Interdisciplinary collection of papers organised around 3 main themes: issues of theory and method; questions of identity; and racism and sexism at work. Explores the consequences of racism for women of different backgrounds, and considers the complexities and varieties of the forms of oppression which arise. Looks at how the processes of race and gender interrelate in highly complex and contradictory ways. Also examines the effects of age, class, disability and sexuality.
Women, mental health and good practice
- Authors:
- ANDREWS Catherine, et al
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 1v.,looseleaf.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Teaching pack which aims to raise awareness of damaging stereotypes of women and to challenge these. Also designed to give participants ideas about how to intervene and support good practice and identify future needs and formulate individual action plans when working with women with mental health problems. Includes OHP sheets.
Psychology on the streets: mental health practice with homeless persons
- Author:
- KUHLMAN Thomas
- Publisher:
- Wiley Interscience
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Practical guide for practitioners working with homeless people with mental health problems. Looks at the history of homelessness in the United States and goes on to look at resistance, countertransference, schizophrenia, single session interventions, and intermittent psychotherapy.
Pitfalls in evaluating the effectiveness of case management programs for homeless persons: lessons from the NIAAA Community Demonstration Program
- Authors:
- ORWIN Robert G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Evaluation Review, 18(2), April 1994, pp.153-207.
- Publisher:
- Sage
It is generally believed that homeless individuals - particularly those with substance abuse problems or mental illness - are unable to access the full range of available benefits and community services on their own. Community service providers have increasingly looked towards case management as the intervention choice for solving this problem. Yet the evaluation findings of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Community Demonstration Program showed few clear benefits of case management. Suggests that the reasons for negative findings may lie with the evaluations as much as the interventions and makes suggestions for improving future evaluations of case management effectiveness.