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Participative mental health research: users and professional researchers working together
- Author:
- RAMON Shula
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(7), March 2000, pp.224-225.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Mental health research rarely involves service users as equal partners as well as participants. This paper describes two unique experiments in co-operative research that provide convincing arguments and some useful lessons for future such joint initiatives between user groups and academic research establishments.
Pressure for change
- Author:
- SNELL Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.7.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers the implications of a Sainsbury Centre report which calls for better joint work between health authorities and social services departments in the area of mental health.
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.
Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health: prevention planning resource for local areas
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 66
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice resource aims to support local areas in England put in place effective arrangements to promote good mental health and prevent mental health problems. It provides a 5-part framework to help effective planning for better mental health, covering: effective use of data and intelligence of needs and assets assessment; partnership working between local organisations; translating needs and assets into joint commitments; defining success outcomes; and leadership and accountability. Each section highlights actions and interventions that local areas can take to improve mental health. It also includes practice examples and links to further supporting resources. It is part of a suite of resources being produced as part of the Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health programme. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social work and mental health
- Author:
- GOLIGHTLEY Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 177p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Exeter
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
The ability to understand and deal with mental health issues and the needs of service users is paramount to good social work practice. This book covers key issues in mental health and helps students develop the knowledge and understanding required to deliver appropriate and responsive services. This third edition reflects recent changes to mental health legislation policies and practice. Case studies are used throughout. Contents include: values and ethical mental health social work; social work practice and mental health; the legal and political context; mental health in children and adolescents; adults who are short-term service users; adults who are long-term service users; working across organisational and professional boundaries. Each chapter refers to the National Occupational Standards covered.
Acting out, acting in
- Author:
- SHUCKSMITH Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2006, pp.30-33.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Scottish policy context for the promotion of mental health and well-being accords with the international rights perspective that sees health as a key in promoting equality and social justice. Schools are viewed as playing a central role. In Scotland all schools are to be health promoting schools by 2007. This article draws on work commissioned by the pupil support and inclusive division of the Scottish Executive Education Department to investigate the links between mental health and behaviour in schools and the structures, policies or resources that might enable schools to identify these links and develop appropriate, within-school responses. The article explores the different models of partnership that schools in Scotland have adopted as part of their response to new policy pressures to deliver more inclusive education and stronger integration with other welfare services. It reports briefly on three case studies.
Leading lights to guide us
- Authors:
- LOVETT Carole, GREEN Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, October 2003, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Guiding Lights project, part of the Mental Health Foundation's Strategies for Living programme, aims to research what constitutes good practice in projects, organisations and services that aim to be user-centred in their approach. Reports on the findings from two initial seminar events held by the project. Also outlines one of the outcomes of the seminars, a user centred evaluation tool (UCET) to help organisations or groups reflect on how user centred their project is. The tool is available to download from their website at http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/guiding-lights/.
Is partnership possible
- Author:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 104, July 2000, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The author wonders if past experience can help mental health services really engage in partnership. Looks at the realities of partnership in mental health, some of the barriers, and what the future holds.
A tale of two stories
- Author:
- O'CONNOR Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(7), March 2000, pp.240-242.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article describes the work of a mental health practitioner using the narrative approach when working with children at primary care level. Illustrated with a case study.
NYPD blues
- Authors:
- STOREY Les, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 2(11), July 1999, pp.371-372.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Some 25,000 people with mental health problems pass through New York City's jails each year, presenting the authorities with a formidable challenge. The authors examine how they are tackling the problem.