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Understanding the impact of JRRP for people with mental health conditions
- Authors:
- TAYLOR Rebecca, LEWIS Jane
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This reanalysis explores an unexpected finding from the evaluation of the Job Retention and Rehabilitation pilot, namely that people with mental health conditions who used the pilot services had a lower rate of return to work than those who did not. Quantitative and qualitative data collected during the evaluation of the pilot provided evidence supporting a number of plausible explanations. These included the possibility that there may have been less scope to boost health and workplace services for people with mental health conditions and delayed returns to work due to a focus on the same employer, waiting for a more complete health recovery, and dependency on the service provider. There was no evidence to indicate that the interventions were deficient for the mental health group, nor did the data suggest that the design of the trial was likely to have caused the negative impact.
Wake-up call for British psychiatry
- Authors:
- CRADDOCK Nick, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 192(7), July 2008, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The recent drive within the UK National Health Service to improve psychosocial care for people with mental illness is both understandable and welcome: evidence-based psychological and social interventions are extremely important in managing psychiatric illness. Nevertheless, the accompanying downgrading of medical aspects of care has resulted in services that often are better suited to offering non-specific psychosocial support, rather than thorough, broad-based diagnostic assessment leading to specific treatments to optimise well-being and functioning. In part, these changes have been politically driven, but they could not have occurred without the collusion, or at least the acquiescence, of psychiatrists. This creeping devaluation of medicine disadvantages patients and is very damaging to both the standing and the understanding of psychiatry in the minds of the public, fellow professionals and the medical students who will be responsible for the specialty’s future. On the 200th birthday of psychiatry, it is fitting to reconsider the specialty’s core values and renew efforts to use psychiatric skills for the maximum benefit of patients.
Working well
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2008, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
A new report on the health of the working age population in the UK, 'Working for a Healthier Tomorrow', highlights the importance of early intervention and better workplace support to cut the numbers of people claiming long term sickness benefits. This article looks at the problem and discusses some current initiatives.
Developing a dual diagnosis
- Authors:
- SWINDEN Donna, BARRETT Mandy
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 13.5.08, 2008, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article describes the development of a dual diagnosis intervention worker role to work with people with coexisting mental health and substance misuse needs in North Durham. It describes the role, how it interacts with other structures, and outcomes for service users. It also outlines some innovative initiatives that have developed as a result of introducing this role.
How POPP pilots are proving their worth
- Author:
- NORRIS Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Commissioning News, 10, December 2008, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- CJ Wellings Ltd
Camden is one of 29 Partnerships for Older People (POPP) pilot sites which have received government money to test out 245 projects to improve care of older people. This article looks at progress in Camden, the types of projects they are running under the 'Community Interventions for Older People with Mental Health Needs' and the early findings from the national evaluation.
Young people and mental health: novel methods for systematic review of research on barriers and facilitators
- Authors:
- OLIVER S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health Education Research, 23(5), 2008, pp.770-790.
- Publisher:
- Oxford Press
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Barriers to, and facilitators of, good mental health among young people aged 11-21 were identified from a systematic review of studies of their views, and compared with what is known from effectiveness studies about appropriate interventions. No clear pattern for effectiveness emerged in terms of mental health promotion focus, type of intervention, intervention provider or young people. Well evaluated interventions do not always target what young people see as important barriers and facilitators, for example material and physical resources. Rather, they tend to focus on low risk populations and priorities other than those raised by young people themselves.
Family-based psychoeducation for children and adolescents with mood disorders
- Authors:
- ONG Say How., CARON Annalise
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child and Family Studies, 17(6), December 2008, pp.809-822.
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands
This systematic review covers eight studies, published between 1980 and 2006, on psychoeducation programmes for families with children suffering from or at risk of mood disorders. The findings show that psychoeducation programmes typically use a workshop approach incorporating didactic teaching and interactive discussion, with or without specific skills training. Given the paucity of randomised controlled trials and the lack of comparability between the psychoeducation approaches reviewed, it is not possible to come to conclusions about the true efficacy of each programme as an independent treatment or as an adjunct to treatment. Further research in this area is needed.
Risk and new exclusions in community mental health practice
- Author:
- SAWYER Anne-Maree
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 61(4), December 2008, pp.327-341.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Over the past two decades, mental health practice has become increasingly focused on assessing and managing the risks posed by service users. British researchers have made significant advances in studying the consequences of risk management for community-based health and welfare services, but in Australia this field remains largely undeveloped. Drawing on her experiences as a social worker in a Melbourne-based Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team from 1991 to 2008, the author offers a reflective analysis of the shift in practice orientation that has emerged through the growing prominence of risk as a foundation for intervention. It is argued that this shift has led to a narrowing of service provision and that “low-risk” clients are newly disadvantaged, often excluded from service.
Men's mental health
- Author:
- SCOURFIELD Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Irish Social Worker, Summer 2008, pp.10-14.
- Publisher:
- Irish Association of Social Workers
The author provides an overview of men's mental health and how social workers should approach the topic. He then discusses aspects of gender socialisation that affect men's mental health and the implications for social work interventions.
Blue is the colour
- Author:
- SHEPHERD Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 25.9.08, 2008, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
New primary care teams are helping to catch people early in the spectrum of mental illness. This article reports on a successful pilots in Hertfordshire where mixed enhanced primary mental health teams made up of link workers and mental health workers take referrals from GPs.