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Mental Health Review
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The Mental Health Review provides current thinking and information for managers and practitioners working in the mental health field. Each issue contains a comprehensive framework feature addressing a subject of contemporary significance for mental health practice, as well as a variety of articles and case studies exploring and analysing topical issues in mental health. Published quarterly.
Young people's mental health
- Author:
- YOUTH SELECT COMMITTEE
- Publisher:
- British Youth Council
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on the findings from the Youth Select Committee’s inquiry into mental health services for young people. The committee consists of eleven people, aged 13-18 and includes both elected and reserved seats to ensure a broad representation of interests and experience from all parts of the UK. The report deals with the current state of service, levels of funding and changes to service provision. It looks at quality of education, training for teachers and the role of schools and explores awareness of mental health and digital culture. The report includes a set of key recommendations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Perinatal mental health services: recommendations for the provision of services for childbearing women: CR197
- Author:
- OATES Margaret
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- London
This report describes the provision of good-quality mental health services to childbearing women. It is intended to assist those providing and planning services for pregnant and postpartum women across a range of disorders and severities at all levels of service provision. It outlines the particular importance of perinatal mental health problems and the need for specialised services. In addition, it examines the current provision of care and services for perinatal mental health disorders and sets out the key principles that underpin good care. The report makes a series of recommendations, including: provision of specialised mother and baby unit services; access to care and treatment from a specialised perinatal community mental health team; and closer working relationships between specialised perinatal and adult mental health, child and adolescent mental health services, maternity services, health visitors and children’s social services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Getting heard
- Author:
- ZUCCHELLI Fabio
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, January/February 2014, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Hearing Voices Movement has become established in the UK and provides an alternative to the traditional psychiatric view to what hearing voices means. This article provides a brief history of the movement and the development of the Network in the UK. It also looks at how the approach works within mental health services and with practitioners. (Original abstract)
Patient suicide: the impact of service changes: a UK wide study
- Author:
- NATIONAL CONFIDENTIAL INQUIRY INTO SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE BY PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCISH) aimed to examine the relationship between mental health service changes and patient suicide rates in the UK. The specific objectives were to investigate: the take up of service changes over time; the association between the number of service changes implemented and suicide rates; the association between service changes and suicide rates before and after their implementation; and the effect of individual service changes on specific patient sub-groups. A detailed service questionnaire was sent to all mental health services in the UK. Questions related to whether specific policies or service changes had been implemented. 17 recommendations and service changes were selected for consideration, reflecting their clinical and policy importance. (Edited publisher abstract)
Research watch: the power of genetic and biological explanations to reduce social inclusion
- Author:
- HOLTTUM Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 16(3), 2012, pp.116-120.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This review summarises two recent research papers relating to the use of biological explanations. The first paper highlights how unhelpful it can be to over-use genetic explanations for various human experiences, and the second paper discusses the unhelpfulness of exclusively biological explanations for mental health conditions. The first paper explores the many ways in which genetic explanations are over-used to understand race, ethnicity, the sexes, sexual orientation, crime, mental health and obesity. This over-use of genetic explanations leads to various negative consequences, among them social exclusion, but may be counteracted by better explanations of both the relatively weak nature of genetic influences and how people's genes and environment interact. The second paper examines evidence about whether it is really helpful to think of mental health conditions as illnesses “like any other”. The author points to the need for promoting a more holistic understanding of human experience, and against focusing too narrowly on only one kind of cause, namely biological, and mostly on one aspect of biology – genes.
Rainbow redemption: mental health takes centre stage
- Author:
- WILSON Latoya
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 16(3), 2012, pp.135-138.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article explores the experience of using drama to demystify and destigmatise mental illness. Drama can be an effective way of increasing mental health awareness. It can also be an enjoyable way of getting across the message that even those who lack mental wellbeing have dreams and can achieve them. The article provides a descriptive account of a drama project from the perspectives of participants and the author. The innovative use of drama to promote mental wellbeing, the diverse partnerships that underpinned the production, and the positive impact on performers and audience are outlined. Key to success was good joint working between a range of health, social care and community agencies, as well as local service users. Financial resources for putting on the production provided by the local mental health trust were also crucial.
Positive duty of care? The mental health crisis in immigration detention: a briefing paper by the Mental Health in Immigration project
- Authors:
- McGINLEY Ali, TRUDE Adeline
- Publisher:
- Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees; Bail for Immigration Detainees
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Health in Immigration Detention Project is a policy initiative which aims to secure the humane and lawful treatment of immigration detainees. It is a joint project by the Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) and Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID). The project was started in 2010 in response to policy changes by the UK Border Agency (UKBA), bringing together the concerns of visitors groups and detention organisations, and drawing on expert advice from specialist lawyers and clinicians. This paper states that people with mental illness should never be subjected to immigration detention. However, while people with mental illness are being detained, AVIS and BID aim to ensure: that they are treated humanely and in accordance with best practice, receiving care equivalent to that found in the community; and that the UKBA acknowledges its duty of care for people with mental ill health, and exercises that positive duty in accordance with its legal obligations
An unfinished story: reflections on the development of user involvement
- Author:
- BARNES Marion
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 170, January 2012, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Briefly traces the development of user involvement in mental health from its beginnings in the 1980's to its current position as an accepted part of official policy. It highlights the struggle service users face in operating both outside and within the system and new areas of involvement, such as research.
Mental health jargon and acronym buster: a simple guide to words used in mental health
- Authors:
- HEYES Simon, (comp.)
- Publisher:
- Speak Up Somerset
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- Yeovil
- Edition:
- Rev ed.
This guide provides a list of key acronyms and a glossary of terms used in mental health, together with their definitions. It also provides a mental health timeline which lists key events and policy documents that have shaped mental health policy.