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Early warning system
- Author:
- TICKLE Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.10.03, 2003, p.34.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at a pioneering project in Shetland which trains people to detect mental health problems before crisis point. The training initiative has been adopted after its successful use in Australia.
Promoting mental health and emotional well-being among children and youth: a role for community child health?
- Authors:
- ALPERSTEIN G., RAMAN S.
- Journal article citation:
- Child: Care, Health and Development, 29(4), July 2003, pp.269-274.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The promotion of emotional well-being focuses on improving environments (social, physical, economic) affecting it and enhancing the ‘coping’ capacity of communities and individuals. What environmental improvements are required, and how does one ‘enhance coping’ in order to promote emotional well-being? What is the role of community child health workers in promoting mental health and emotional well-being? Most research on determinants of population health and well-being has focused on physical health, particularly mortality and life expectancy, less on ‘upstream’ (socioeconomic) determinants of mental health problems, and even less on emotional well-being and enhancing ‘coping’ or promoting resilience. Examples of upstream determinants include good evidence linking the prevalence of children's and young people's mental health problems to income, educational status and family structure. Male youth suicide has been linked to such upstream determinants as relative unemployment rates. Suicide has increased with increasing ratio of youth to overall unemployment rates. A significantly higher risk of suicide in Australia over the past century was shown to be associated with conservative, as compared with social democratic, governments. Concludes that the strategies described, when delivered in a multisectoral, proactive, population not individual targeted manner, may reduce the incidence of problems and promote resilience and emotional well-being. They are complementary and unlikely alone to result in significant gain, and each must be adjusted to suit each community or group. They must also be properly funded and evaluated.
Adults, mental illness and incapacity: convergence and overlap in legal regulation
- Author:
- BARTLETT Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 25(4), December 2003, pp.341-353.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
While not entirely congruent, there will be substantial overlap between the classes of individuals governed by the proposed Mental Incapacity and Mental Health Acts, and by the court's inherent jurisdiction. This paper argues that the mental health proposals are procedurally strong but substantively weak, while the incapacity reforms are, largely, the reverse. For individuals who may be subject to either legal régime, therefore, the safeguards of one statute may be avoided by resort to the other. Lying across both reforms is the court's inherent jurisdiction. It remains to be seen whether or how the scope of this jurisdiction will be developed in the event that the legislative reforms are passed.
Building Bridges
- Author:
- COLE Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 67, November 2003, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Describes innovative practice in Newcastle where volunteers are talking about mental health with groups of young people. The groups are led by three volunteers, two to facilitate discussion and to act as bridges to services, and another to provide support if a participant requires immediate support or is identified as being at risk.
Mind Games
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 124, November 2003, p.11.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Reports on a pilot project by the theatre company Dead Earnest, who have become involved with community regeneration and health projects. Mind Games was a pilot project aiming to raise awareness by exploring people's perceptions of mental health. It used a training technique that facilitates interative learning, engaging the audience and allowing them to participate in the process.
It's the survivors who thrive
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.10.03, 2003, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that a lack of understanding among professionals and unhelpful immigration laws are undermining attempts to improve the mental health of asylum seekers and refugees.
NIMBY syndrome and public consultation policy: the implications of a discourse analysis of local responses to the establishment of a community mental health facility
- Author:
- COWAN Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 11(5), September 2003, pp.379-386.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The relocation of mental health services from an institutional to community base in the UK has witnessed incidents of public opposition to the establishment of community mental health projects. It is argued that this not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) syndrome is partly a result of public attitudes towards people with mental health problems. This paper reports some findings from a study of community attitudes towards such individuals in a Scottish community and discusses implications for the development of public consultation guidelines with respect to the establishment of community mental health facilities. Discourse analysis was used to explore people's views. The study examined the ways in which they were expressed in letters to the local press and in subsequent discussions and interviews when arguing for or against a supported accommodation project in their neighbourhood. Participants formulated arguments around a number of issues they claimed were of public concern. One related to the way in which the project was set up. In particular, participants argued it had been established without any prior consultation with local people and in secrecy. The findings demonstrate that, while consultation is relatively unproblematically defined in terms of its function, its specific nature is more problematic. The implications of these findings for mental health policy and practice are considered in the light of current official guidelines on public consultation relating to the establishment of community mental health facilities. It is argued that they fail to take account of the concerns of local people, and therefore that any intervention based on such guidelines is likely to be ineffective. It is suggested that the findings will be of interest to policy makers and practitioners seeking to devise future public consultation strategies.
Lessons from down under
- Author:
- CHRISTIE Bryan
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 45, 24.9.03, 2003, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the Mental Health First Aid Programme which has been adopted in Scotland following it's success in Australia. The programme trains health professionals, social workers, carers, teachers and members of the public to recognise the signs of mental health and applying strategies to help the person concerned, and guide them towards professional help.
Question time
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2003, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Reports on a video, 'The Bleakest Link', produced by the Trafford-based New Way Forward service users group. Based on the TV gameshow 'The Weakest Link' it aims to challenge the myths and stereotyping by the media and gives people with mental health problems the opportunity to tell their story in their own words. The video has the potential to be used to challenge discrimination, raise awareness, and in social work training.
Assessing clinically significant religious impairment in clients: applications from measures in the psychology of religion and spirituality
- Authors:
- HILL Peter C., KILIAN Macus K.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Religion and Culture, 6(2), July 2003, pp.149-160.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article reviews measures in the psychological study of religion and spirituality (RS) in terms of Hathaway’s conceptualisation of clinically significant religious impairment (CSRI). It is maintained that RS can be regarded as an endogenous variable impaired by psychopathology. Specific RS measures are discussed in terms of how they may be used to assess RS impairment in clients in terms of performing RS activities, achieving RS goals, and experiencing desired RS states.