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How included are mental health service users in decisions about their medication?
- Author:
- HOLTTUM Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 20(3), 2016, pp.141-148.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider four recent articles relating to how included service users are in decision making about their medication in mental health services. Design/methodology/approach: One article describes conversations between a psychiatrist and service users about medication. The second paper describes a study in which young people were supported with the aim of developing their confidence to challenge medication decisions. The third paper reports on interviews with both professionals and service users about medication decisions. The fourth paper presents a theory of how the wider context can affect medication decision making in mental health. Findings: The first paper shows how a psychiatrist can persuade service users to accept medication decisions. The second paper shows how some young people can challenge medication decisions if they have the right support. The third paper illustrates how both professionals and service users may doubt service users’ ability to decide about medication, and pessimistically suggests that shared decision making may be unrealistic. In contrast to this, the fourth paper offers hope of changing how mental health services are organised in order to enable service users to be more empowered about medication decisions. Originality/value: A model of shared decision making is being imported into mental health from physical health. These four papers illustrate problems with a simple transfer from physical to mental health. The present paper points to differences in apparent awareness of different clinical researchers of the need to tackle service users’ disempowerment in mental health care, showing how some researchers are tackling this. (Publisher abstract)
Finding treatment to suit the patient: the Maudsley medication review clinic
- Authors:
- GRAY Richard, REVELEY Adrianne, HOWARD Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(4), December 1998, pp.132-134.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Negative treatment experience and use of drugs with unacceptable side effects are known to reduce patient compliance. The author reports on the first's years operation of a new medication review clinic which believes that patients and carers have a major say in deciding the preferred course of treatment.
A chance for change
- Author:
- LINDOW Vivien
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.3.93, 1993, pp.33-34.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that community-based caring for people with mental health problems offers an opportunity to empower users - but only if old practices such as long-term drug therapy are challenged.
Perspectives: power to the people
- Author:
- COOTE Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.11.99, 1999, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that is time those suffering with mental illness, among others, had the power to influence tough choices, such as whether to supply new drugs on the NHS.
Compliance of informed choice
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel E., REPPER Julie M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(2), April 1999, pp.117-129.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the ways in which attempts to increase compliance with psychotropic medication run counter to the goal of enabling people to make informed choices about their treatment. An alternative approach to understanding why people behave in the way that they do is explored within the framework of health belief models of behaviour developed in relation to physical health illness.
Old and homeless: double-jeopardy; an overview of current practice and policies
- Editors:
- RICH Diane Wiatt, RICH Thomas A., MULLINS Larry C.
- Publisher:
- Auburn House
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 154p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Westport, CT
Looks at the particular problems of homeless older people in a United States context. Includes chapters on: characteristics and needs - service and policy implications; mental health issues; substance abuse; physical health; medication; outreach and empowerment; community resources; and housing policy.
Mental distress: video directory
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH MEDIA
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Media
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London