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Looking ahead: the next 25 years in mental health
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In the 25 years since the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development was established as a charity in 1985. This paper looks forward at the next 25 years. Leading commentators consider what they think the most important changes will be for people with mental health problems and for the mental wellbeing of society. They also discuss the change that should be made in policy and practice over the next 25 years.
Patterns of exclusion of carers for people with mental health problems - the perspectives of professionals
- Authors:
- GRAY Benjamin, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 24(4), December 2010, pp.475-492.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The UK government 10 year strategy for carers (Carers at the Heart of 21st Century Families and Communities, 2008) outlines commitment to support for carers, to enable them to be included within service provision and to have a 'life of their own' including income, employment and well-being, helping to prevent social exclusion. In this study, 65 strategic staff in mental health care delivery from a range of settings and sectors were interviewed and invited to comment on the social exclusion of carers. The findings highlight four main types of exclusion: personal exclusions (including stigma and keeping mental health problems a secret), social exclusions (including isolation, commitments and restrictions and young carers), service exclusions (including needs not being addressed and difficulties with access), and financial exclusions (including paying for care). The author discusses the patterns of exclusion and considers the ways in which professionals and services can promote the social inclusion of carers for people with mental health problems in future.
Prison mental health: vision and reality
- Authors:
- APPLEBY Louis, et al
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 25p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The need for better mental health care in prisons has been evident for some time. Reports throughout the last two decades have shown that prisoners have dramatically higher rates of the whole range of mental health problems compared to the general population. This report examines what has been achieved in prison mental health over recent years from a number of different personal perspectives and individual observations of working in England. It looks at the specific achievements of inreach teams and of efforts to divert offenders from custody. It also looks more broadly at the rapid growth of the prison population during the same period and the treatment of offenders with mental health problems outside as well as inside prison.
When one door closes…
- Author:
- McMILLIAN Ian A.
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(1), January 2010, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The article contains an interview with Shaun Gravestock, a full-time consultant psychiatrist at the newly opened Mental Health and Learning Disabilities at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham, Kent. This unit caters specifically for people with learning disabilities who need intensive mental health care. It contains 13 beds, 9 funded by local primary care trusts and 4 available to commissioners around the UK. Gravestock argues that mainstream acute mental health units are not the best places for potentially vulnerable people with learning disabilities, as staff may find it difficult to establish rapport, the atmosphere can be volatile, and staff are under pressure to quickly move patients through the system. The Bethlem unit aims to fill this gap for a specialist service for those with learning disabilities and mental health problems.
Families of children with serious emotional disorder: maternal reports on the decision and impact of their child's placement in residential treatment
- Authors:
- TAHHAN Julia, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 27(3), July 2010, pp.191-213.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study investigated the experiences of mothers of seriously emotionally disordered child both before and after residence in a children's mental health treatment facility in Canada. The mothers of 8 clients who had been discharged from one residential treatment facility were interviewed. Findings revealed that, prior to placement, the mothers had exhausted all non-residential forms of intervention and, increasingly, became concerned not only for their child's welfare, but also for that of themselves and other siblings in the home. Regardless of whether their child's stay in residential treatment yielded positive or negative outcomes, the mothers viewed the intensive short-term treatment as a valuable and necessary service. Recommendations for improvement in residential services include reduced waiting times, availability of services to children at a younger age, more parental education regarding effective child management. The findings, as they relate to policy and practice for residential treatment, are discussed.
Monitoring the use of the Mental Health Act in 2009/10: an overview of CQC's findings and recommendations from our first annual report on our monitoring of how the Act is used
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Health Act requires the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to report annually to Parliament on the work in monitoring the use of the Act in England. This publication is an overview of the findings and recommendations in the report of the first year of monitoring the use of the Act, from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010. It is based on findings from the visits that our Mental Health Act Commissioners and SOADs have made to services during the year. The report highlights the aims of the visits to improve the standards of care and treatment for detained patients. General findings suggest that there has been a fall in the number of informal patients who have been detained under the Act when they have tried to discharge themselves from hospital. There has been a marked reduction in the number of young people admitted to adult psychiatric wards under the Mental Health Act, especially of those under 16 years of age.
The economic and social costs of mental health problems in 2009/10
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A policy paper published in 2003 estimated that the economic and social costs of mental health problems in England in the financial year 2002/03 amounted to £77.4 billion. Using the same methodology, a straightforward updating of this figure suggests that the aggregate cost of mental health problems in England increased to £105.2 billion in 2009/10. This updated analysis shows that mental ill health should continue to be a priority issue for public policy. The cost of mental ill health continues to fall mainly upon those who experience it and their families but it also creates a high cost for taxpayers and for business. This report suggests that effective responses to people with mental health difficulties are value for public money. Providing good quality parenting support to people with young children, extending access to psychological therapy, early identification of distress at work, diverting offenders with mental health difficulties from custody and assisting people with severe mental health problems into paid work all make a difference to people’s lives and create both immediate and long-term savings to public finances.
Mind the gap: MIND, the mental hygiene movement and the trapdoor in measurements of intellect
- Author:
- TOMS J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54(Supplement 1), April 2010, pp.16-27.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
At the turn of the 1970s the National Association for Mental Health, a voluntary organisation working closely with psychiatrists and the government to provide residential services and educational courses, adopted the 'brand name' MIND as part of its transformation into a campaigning pressure group. This article explores the historical background to key statements made by the organisation at this time regarding the association of mental health with, what was previously known as, mental handicap. The National Association for Mental Health is placed within the historical context of the movement for mental hygiene. The article investigates how the movement theorised mental health as critically related to intellect and emotionality. The author describes how the movement relegated people deemed ‘mentally deficient’ from therapeutic policies based on family relationships believed to promote mental health, and goes on to discuss the way in which a late 1950s experiment known as the Brooklands study undermined this discrimination. This was, the author suggests, paradoxical, since it built on mental hygiene theorising. The article concludes that theorisations of the relationship between intellect, emotion and mental health are still potentially discriminatory.
A guiding star
- Author:
- IMONIORO Onyemaechi
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2010, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This brief article describes the mental health recovery star, soon due to be implemented across five strategic health authorities. The mental health recovery star, developed by Triangle Consulting and the Mental Health Providers Forum, is an outcomes measurement and key working tool that that has been designed for use in adult services, created with input from people with experience of mental ill health. The recovery star model consists of two elements: a visual diagram in the form of a ten pronged star maps progress across ten dimensions seen as central to recovery; and a ladder of change, which outlines five descriptive steps signifying an individual’s journey from mental ill health to recovery. The author examines how this model will be implemented, and looks at some of the issues raised and changes made during its pilot.
The social worker's guide to child and adolescent mental health
- Author:
- WALKER Steven
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 288p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The author’s aim is to provide a comprehensive guide to working with children and young people who are experiencing mental health problems. He also hopes to equip the reader with the knowledge and skills to provide the best service to these vulnerable young people. The first part of the book considers what role social work can play in child and adolescent mental health. It explores key ideas related to mental health and young people, including attachment issues, children's emotional development and common and complex mental health problems. The author then goes on to look at how social work skills and methods can be applied to working with children and young people with mental health problems. Here he offers guidance on assessment tools, intervention, and multi-disciplinary working. The final section of the book focuses on the wider context, such as legislative and policy frameworks and the importance of considering cultural, spiritual and religious identity. Case examples, reflective activities and practical exercises are included throughout to underpin theory and knowledge. The book is expected to be of interest to pre- and post-qualifying social work practitioners involved with children, adolescents and families, in particular those working in mental health settings, as well as approved mental health professionals.