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Evaluation of comprehensive care of the mentally ill: the transition from mental hospital care to extramural care of the mentally ill in European Community Countries
- Editors:
- FREEMAN Hugh, HENDERSON John
- Publishers:
- Gaskell, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 220p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
When the walls came down
- Author:
- GITTINS Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Hears the views of former patients at Severalls Hospital, a long stay psychiatric institution in Essex.
Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Changing mental health services: the politics and policy
- Author:
- BUTLER Tom
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 191p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at a range of different strategies which have been used in providing for those with mental illness, from containment in institutions to community care. Examines the origins of these policies and explores the consequences for professionals.
The role of mental health and challenging behaviour in the quality of life in people with intellectual disabilities in Spain
- Authors:
- PENA-SALAZAR Carlos, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 12(1), 2018, pp.34-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine the relation between quality of life (QoL), mental illness, challenging behaviour and institutionalisation in an adult population with intellectual disabilities (ID). Design/methodology/approach: The study assessed the QoL and its conditioning factors in 142 subjects with different degrees of ID. The GENCAT and Quality of Life in Late Stage Dementia scale were used to evaluate QoL, the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disability and Diagnostic Assessment for the Severely Handicapped-II scale to assess mental illness and the Inventory for Client and aetiology Planning scale to assess challenging behaviour. Findings: Individuals who live in residential care homes were found to have significantly impaired QoL (<0.001). Individuals with challenging behaviour presented significantly lower QoL, regardless of ID aethiology and degree, while psychiatric disorders did not seem to have a direct influence on individual QoL. Originality/value: This paper provides new insight into the importance of challenging behaviour and psychiatric disorders in the QoL of individuals with ID. (Publisher abstract)
The needs and mental health of older people in 24-hour care residential placements
- Authors:
- FAHY M.A., LIVINGSTON G.A.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 5(3), August 2001, pp.253-257.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
At present one in five men and one in three women who reach the age of 65 in the UK today can expect to require 24-hour residential care. They are assessed according to needs as to the type of placement that is required. Little is known about the changing needs and symptoms of residential clients over 65 with mental health problems. The needs and neuropsychiatric symptoms of older people living in residential, nursing and hospital settings were assessed by standardised questionnaire. Seventy-seven residents were interviewed using the Camberwell Assessment of Needs for the Elderly (CANE) and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). The mean CANE for all settings was high. The highest mean CANE was for a residential home and the lowest for a hospital setting. Similar settings had varying NPI and CANE. The data suggests that once placed, subjects needs and neuropsychiatric symptoms do not remain static. It may make both clinical and fiscal sense to reassess subjects. The development of more residential settings, which allow flexibility of degree of care, is recommended.
The social construction of resilience among problem youth in out-of-home placement: a study of health-enhancing deviance
- Author:
- UNGAR Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 30(3), June 2001, pp.137-154.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This American study presents case studies of 43 young people with experience in child welfare, mental health, and correctional settings to examine how resilience is socially constructed by participants and their caregivers. The deviant behaviours of these youth are explained as ways they successfully cope with the risk factors they face. Placement in institutions and community-based residential programmes offers high-risk youth 'forums' in which to create continuities or discontinuities in their identity stories. Collaboration between service partners can have a negative of positive impact on the development of healthy identities in high-risk youth depending on whether care providers participate in the construction of problem-saturated or health-enhancing identities.
Aftercare ruling heightens charging contradictions
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.3.00, 2000, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Councils can no longer charge for mental health after care once people are released after sectioning. Reports on how this makes the changing system more complex.
Comparative mental health policy: from institutional to community care
- Author:
- GOODWIN Simon
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 183p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comparative analysis of mental health policy in Western Europe and North America. Considers how, and why, differences have developed in the implementation of these policies. Examines the transition from institutional to community based models of care; identifies variations in the inception, pace and style in which community based service provision has emerged in different countries; assesses the problems and issues that have arisen as a result of the shift towards community care and treatment; and argues that it is a policy made up of conflicting aims and purposes and that this is reflected in its implementation.
The Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Consent to Treatment) Amendment Regulations 1997
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London