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Working together to improve access to learning
- Author:
- JAMES Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 11(1), February 2007, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author outlines a national partnership project to promote and facilitate access to adult education for people with mental health problems. Those working in the partnership are the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE), the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
Securing better mental health for older adults
- Authors:
- PHILP Ian, APPLEBY Louis
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document marks the start of a new initiative and provides a vision for how all mainstream and specialist health and social care services should work together to secure better mental health services for older people.This is the first time that the mental health and older people's divisions have adopted such a strategic approach in order to influence change and improve services for older people with mental illness.
Community Mental Health Teams' perspectives on providing care for deaf people with severe mental illness
- Authors:
- THOMAS Catherine, CROMWELL Jim, MILLER Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 15(3), June 2006, pp.301-313.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Deaf sign language users encounter many barriers to accessing local services and receiving appropriate help and treatment. As a result Deaf 1 people with serious mental illness can fall through the net of service provision. The aim was to identify and explore the issues involved in providing care for Deaf people with serious mental health problems from the perspective of community mental health teams (CMHT). Eight focus groups were used to explore perceptions and experiences of providing care for this population. Discussions were recorded and transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Data analysis was supported by ATLAS-ti, (Scientific Software Development, 1997) a software package for coding and organising qualitative data. Five key themes were identified: (1) CMHT lack of skills/knowledge/resources, (2) Communication difficulties, (3) Distance of specialist Deaf services, (4) Joint working between CMHT and specialist Deaf services, and (5) Issues specific to Deaf patients. Findings are discussed in the context of implications for improving the access and provision of care for Deaf people with severe mental illness. CMHTs frequently feel ill equipped to provide care for Deaf patients with severe mental illness. Implications require ongoing attention to ensure a more collaborative and efficient continuity of care.
Mind over matter: improving media reporting of mental health
- Author:
- SHIFT
- Publisher:
- Shift
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report makes a series of recommendations on how to improve media reporting. It calls on government, the media and the mental health sector to work together to improve coverage, particularly of severe mental health problems. The publication is intended to kick-start a debate in the media about the reporting of mental health.
Parental mental health and families: working together with parents
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- London
This e-learning module sets out the principles that support partnership working with parents experiencing mental health problems. It considers how to use these principles to help families affected by parents with mental health difficulties to access and use support. It also examines how to use the family model to help balance the needs of the parent with those of the child when making decisions about child care. Individual sections cover: Partnership with parents; Early intervention and access; Exploring parenting issues; and Dealing with complexity.
A common sense approach to working with defendants and offenders with mental health problems
- Author:
- BRYANT Linda
- Publisher:
- Together: Working for Wellbeing
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is widely acknowledged that people with mental health issues are overrepresented in all parts of the criminal justice system. This guide is targeted at frontline criminal justice agency staff to support them when dealing with people with mental health problems. It aims to provide professionals such as police officers, probation officers, security and court staff with practical advice on what to do and which agencies to go to for help. The guide describes a 4-step approach: spot the potential issue; understand the impact of the surroundings; ask questions to find out more; and respond. The final step of the approach advises how to signpost to, and work in a joined-up manner, with other health and social care agencies and includes information on helping the person to register with a GP. Quick reference guides are also included covering the issues of: mental health, alcohol and substance misuse; learning disabilities and learning difficulties; and self-harm and suicide.
Bringing it all back home: mental health and housing
- Author:
- JOHNSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 11(3), November 2008, pp.30-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article calls for better co-operation and co-ordination between mental health and housing support services, and greater recognition of the important role of social housing in community mental health care. The article was originally published as: Johnson R (2008) A Life in the Day 12(2), pp.9-13.
Innovation, local engagement and leadership; the future of supported housing in mental health
- Authors:
- JOHNSON Robin, ROBINSON Zoe
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 11(1), July 2008, pp.20-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The new local government performance framework, in combination with the move to greater personalisation in services, creates a very new funding environment for housing with care and support. From the Public Service Agreement (PSA) on achieving settled accommodation for individuals at risk of exclusion, through to the impact of local joint strategic needs assessments and individual budgets, the principles and mechanisms of the new joint commissioning culture create more opportunities for providers to articulate the needs of the client group served, and to assert the case for more joined-up and responsive services. This may require different skills and new styles of leadership at local level, and providers who have become adept at being competitors may need to re-discover the skills of partnership. Meanwhile, new social exclusion policy frameworks are emerging for supported accommodation, which can support moves way from institutional care for those with mental health problems. This author discusses this changing environment.
Better days
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 03.11.05, 2005, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article looks at how Hillingdon redesigned its mental health day services to further embrace social inclusion. The new service, Employment Link, has a partnership with a voluntary organisation which has opened up alternative streams of funding and is also getting people into work.
Parental mental health and child welfare - a young person's story
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
Of the 175,000 young carers identified in the 2001 census, 29 per cent – or just over 50,000 – were estimated to care for a family member with mental health problems (Dearden and Becker 2004). Not all children living with a parent with mental health problems will be carers but, for those that are, they can be involved in undertaking a variety of tasks including: advocacy, help with correspondence and bills, liaising with professionals, administering medicines, emotional support and domestic tasks. This film is about 18-year-old Cait who has been caring for her Mum since she was 7 years old. The film explores the importance of involving and assessing the needs of all family members from the outset. It describes Cait’s own experience of getting the support she needed and how agencies in Liverpool are working together to improve services for parents with mental health problems and their children.