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Housing support for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 58, 2004, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at how the provision of suitable housing for people with mental health problems can be improved.
Mental health
- Author:
- RYAN Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2004, 2004, pp.37-42.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Focuses on child and adolescent mental health services (CAHMS), beginning with a Department of Health overall mapping exercise and continuing with an overview of a national survey of the interface between CAHMS and primary care. The efficacy of a Tier 2 early intervention service is reviewed, and an account of an evaluation of the efficacy of 2 Tier 3 specific treatments for children with severely disruptive behaviours is given. Lists the 4-tier system. Part of a special issue focusing on the Children Bill and the green paper, Every Child Matters.
Open the revolving door to opportunity
- Author:
- CORNER Julian
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 181, August 2004, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
The Revolving Doors Agency's approach to mainstreaming its Link Workers schemes highlights an opportunity that many small organisations should seize. The Agency offers partner agencies developmental, support and expertise to increase the number of Link Worker schemes available, rather than Revolving Doors managing more schemes themselves. The schemes provide support for people with mental health problems who have been arrested or imprisoned.
Intermediate care and mental health
- Authors:
- SULLIVAN Julia, TRINDER Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 8(1), March 2004, pp.21-24.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes the 24-hour Elderly Mental Health intermediate care service set up in Portsmouth to provide intermediate care services for older people with mental health problems. The service gives people the choice to remain at home.
Local implementation of the Social Exclusion Unit report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report sets out a new model for partnership working across sectors and an action plan to achieve change. The over-arching objective of this plan is to ensure that experiencing mental health problems does not present a barrier to achieving individual goals and participating in society. Health and social care services have a critical role to play in helping people recover – or hold on to – what they value in life, by facilitating access to advice, support and mainstream opportunities. At the same time, it is essential that other service providers, including those in the fields of housing, arts and leisure and supported employment, actively address the issues faced by this client group and engage with the health sector to deliver change. Local strategies to meet these objectives will need to take into account differing local characteristics, eg rural or geographically dispersed populations or services, the age/ethnicity profile, transport links and areas of deprivation.
Mental disorders and drug abuse in persons living with HIV/AIDS
- Authors:
- KLINKENBERG W. D., SACKS S.
- Journal article citation:
- AIDS Care, 16(Supplement 1), January 2004, pp.S22-S42.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reviews the literature on the prevalence of mental and substance use disorders among persons living with HIV/AIDS. Drug use, both injection and non-injection, substantially increases the risk for HIV infection. While injection drug users have the highest prevalence rates for HIV, substantially elevated rates of HIV infection are also present among crack cocaine users and individuals with substance use disorders generally. Persons with HIV/AIDS and a mental and/or substance use disorder have highly variable patterns of accessing services. Persons with HIV/AIDS who have a serious mental illness are more highly involved with services than other groups. Most individuals with co-occurring disorders report some involvement with outpatient primary medical care, although ancillary services such as mental health and substance abuse treatment, transportation assistance, and case management improve involvement in medical care. Women with HIV/AIDS and co-occurring mental and substance use disorders experience unique vulnerabilities, particularly those related to exposure to traumatic events. Given the complexity of needs with which triply or multiply diagnosed individuals present, effective treatment programmes are likely to be those that provide some degree of integrated care.
Networks of caring:a qualitative study of social support in consumer-run mental health agencies
- Author:
- HARDIMAN Eric R.
- Journal article citation:
- Qualitative Social Work, 3(4), December 2004, pp.431-448.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines consumer-run agency participation by adults with psychiatric disabilities. Using qualitative data from 10 intensive interviews, the purpose was to explore personal meanings attached to agency membership, and understand the lived experiences of participants. A grounded hermeneutic approach was utilized to analyse results. Findings reveal that individuals balance agency utilization and external peer network development. Organizational factors previously found related to social network enhancement (e.g. empowerment and emphasis on supportive services) were confirmed here. The emergent narratives captured in this study suggest that these agencies function as low-demand, accepting, safe, and sheltering environments while offering opportunities for human connection, shared agency ownership and community. Finally, access to otherwise unavailable peer-focused ‘networks of caring’ was of utmost importance to participants. Implications for the organization and delivery of services are addressed. Social workers and other mental health professionals seeking to maximize community integration and develop natural supports for clients should explore consumer-run agencies.
Complexity, conflict and uncertainty: issues in collaboration between child protection and mental health services
- Authors:
- DARLINGTON Yvonne, FEENEY Judith A., RIXON Kylie
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 26(12), December 2004, pp.1175-1192.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This paper provides an analysis of data from a state-wide survey of statutory child protection workers, adult mental health workers, and child mental health workers. Respondents provided details of their experience of collaboration on cases where a parent had mental health problems and there were serious child protection concerns. The survey was conducted as part of a large mixed-method research project on developing best practice at the intersection of child protection and mental health services. Descriptions of 300 cases were provided by 122 respondents. Analyses revealed that a great deal of collaboration occurred across a wide range of government and community-based agencies; that collaborative processes were often positive and rewarding for workers; and that collaboration was most difficult when the nature of the parental mental illness or the need for child protection intervention was contested. The difficulties experienced included communication, role clarity, competing primary focus, contested parental mental health needs, contested child protection needs, and resources.
Creating links between mental health services for adults and those for children and adolescents
- Author:
- GILLAM Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 9(2), June 2004, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Discusses the interface between child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult mental health services. Profiles an example of good practice and suggests that effective liaison between CAMHS and adult mental health services is essential to the welfare of adults, children and families.
The use of assessment scales in Old Age Psychiatry Services in England and Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- REILLY D., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 8(3), May 2004, pp.249-255.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Implementation of the Single Assessment Process in the UK is designed to ensure that more standardized assessment procedures are in place across all areas and agencies, that practice improves and older people's needs are comprehensively assessed. This study provides a unique picture of the range and prevalence of standardized scales used within Old Age Psychiatry Services in England and Northern Ireland, reported by 73% of old age psychiatrists. Most services (64%) used three or more standardized assessment scales (range 1-12). Sixty-two separate instruments were identified. The six most used measures were the Mini Mental State Examination (95%), the Geriatric Depression Scale (52%) and the Clock Drawing (50%), the Clifton Assessment Procedures for the elderly (26%), the Barthel Index (18%) and the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) 65 + (18%). A number of factors were associated with greater use of certain standardized assessment scales. Shared documentation, along with other indicators of integration between health and social care were associated with greater use of standardized scales. The provision of a memory clinic was associated with greater use of neuropsychiatric scales and lower levels of use of cognitive scales. These results provide key material for shaping the provision of psychiatric services for older people