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Coaching for recovery: a key mental health skill
- Author:
- BOYLE Don
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 8(1), February 2004, pp.23-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the potential of coaching in mental health. It reports on the work being done by Oxleas NHS Trust, Bexley Council and First Step Trust in partnership with Doing-it Personal and Corporate Coaching to equip managers, workers and service users with the new skill of coaching. Also provides an overview of the GROW model of coaching. Explains how coaching can enable mental health professionals to work confidently with service users to help achieve their individual aspirations and potential.
Explore dream discover: working with holistic models of sexual health and sexuality, self esteem and mental health
- Author:
- ADAMS Jo
- Publisher:
- Centre for HIV and Sexual Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 122p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
A resource and training pack describing the Flower holistic models of holistic models of sexual health and sexuality, self esteem and mental health, with guidance on their use in practice.
How evidence-based practices contribute to community integration
- Authors:
- BOND Gary R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 40(6), December 2004, pp.569-588.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Since the groundbreaking work of the Robert Wood Johnson Conference in 1998 identifying six evidence-based practices (EBPs) for people with severe mental illness (SMI), the mental health field has moved in the direction of re-examination and redesign of service systems. Surprisingly, one area that has not been fully explicated is the role that EBPs play in promoting community integration. In this paper, the authors explain how community integration is a unifying concept providing direction and vision for community mental health for people with SMI. As one crucial aspect of the recovery process, community integration clarifies the link between EBPs and recovery. We propose an alternate view, grounded in the empirical literature, to the assertion by Anthony, Rogers, and Farkas that EBP research has rarely demonstrated a positive impact on recovery related outcomes.
Utility of the behavioral model in predicting service utilization by individuals suffering from severe mental illness and homelessness
- Authors:
- LEMMING Matthew R., CALSYN Robert J.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 40(4), August 2004, pp.347-364.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This study compared the effectiveness of the behavioral model to predict two service utilization variables: case manager visits and total services used. Nearly 4000 individuals who were homeless and suffered from severe mental illness provided data for the study. Enabling variables explained more variance of both service utilization variables than predisposing or need variables. Social support from professionals was the strongest predictor for both service utilization variables.
Recovery: expanding the vision of evidence-based practice
- Authors:
- SOLOMON Phyllis, STANHOPE Victoria
- Journal article citation:
- Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 4(4), Winter 2004, pp.311-321.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health recommended that evidence-based practice and recovery be central components of mental health reform. There has been ongoing debate about the compatibility of evidence-based practice, a medical-model approach, and recovery, a consumer-centered approach. This paper will explore the two concepts and discuss the ways they can, in fact, be complementary when used as guiding principles for services research. Using recovery principles, researchers can address the limitations of evidence-based practice standards, which include relying too heavily on randomized trials, failing to establish effectiveness for diverse populations, and focusing exclusively on program structure rather than process. Including process variables, particularly consumer-provider relationships, enables researchers to study core program components, in addition to structural components, and to provide a more robust empirical basis for service effectiveness.
Modernising mental health approaches: using system dynamics to explore the options
- Author:
- SMITH Gill
- Journal article citation:
- Management Issues in Social Care, 9(3), Summer 2004, pp.15-24.
- Publisher:
- OLM Systems
Explores the use of systems dynamics in deriving policies for mental health, as part of the modernisation drive in mental health.
Research into practice
- Author:
- COLOMBO Anthony
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.05.04, 2004, p.52.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at recent research which found that a hidden medical model agenda may be damaging decision-making within mental health teams. The study found clear differences between practitioner groups with psychiatrists and community psychiatric nurses favouring a medical interpretation of mental disorder; while social workers showed strong support for the social and psychotherapeutic models.
Comparison of liaison psychiatry service models for older patients
- Authors:
- MUJIC Fedza, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 28(5), May 2004, pp.171-173.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
At a London teaching hospital, the existing off-site consultation model psychiatric liaison service for older people was replaced with an on-site liaison model service in December 2000. Several indicators of the functioning of the service were audited using identical methods before and after this change. The case-load increased by 50%, but the liaison psychiatrists were more satisfied with the appropriateness of referrals. The case mix did not change. The new service achieved target waiting times more consistently, particularly for urgent referrals. Referring teams were more satisfied with the speed of response, while the new service maintained the salience and clarity of advice. Findings are on the whole favourable, and support the wider introduction of specialist old-age liaison psychiatric services.
One to chew over
- Author:
- DIX Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 1.4.04, 2004, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Looks at new eating disorder guidelines from NICE which hope to increase the number of dedicated services for this condition.
Solving social problems: southern perspectives
- Authors:
- SHANNON Pat, YOUNG Sue
- Publisher:
- Dunmore Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 319p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Palmerston North, NZ
A Comprehensive textbook aimed at the training of social workers. Includes theory and practice models in social work, occupational change and unemployment, health problems and their management, discrimination, deprivation, and poverty