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A cognitive approach to panic disorder
- Authors:
- FORREST Julie, RICKETTS Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.11.95, 1995, pp.27-28.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Outlines the nature of panic attacks and panic disorder and describes a cognitive model of panic disorder. Outlines treatment and a case example.
Meeting mental health needs of ethnic minority groups
- Authors:
- GAUNTLETT Nick, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.10.95, 1995, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The TULIP Outreach Service uses a team approach model to provide community support to people with long-term mental health problems. It was primarily set up to reach people falling through the net of mainstream services, that is, homeless or potentially homeless people and those from minority ethnic groups. Describes how the team approach works in practice. It also gives the preliminary results of an evaluation showing the team's success in targeting and supporting these clients.
Social work in mental health: proceedings of the second Northern Ireland conference, Antrim, 17 September 1993
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health and Social Services. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health and Social Services
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 122p.,tables,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Includes papers on: community care and clients rights; community profiles and mental health needs; therapeutic communities in Northern Ireland; the psychiatric social worker and psychosexual services; the impact of recent health policy changes on mental health social work; the changing face of mental health social work in Northern Ireland; the role of the approved social worker; community psychiatric nursing; working with young people with schizophrenia; and the social integration of ex-patients - the social club model.
A coping model of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse
- Author:
- DRAUCKER Burke Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 10(2), June 1995, pp.159-175.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Reports the test of a casual model that identifies relationships among sexual abuse situation characteristics, based on Finkelhor and Browne's traumagenic model of childhood sexual abuse; the accomplishment of cognitive coping tasks, based on Taylor's theory of cognitive adaptation; and long-term effects.
Organised violence and the stress of exile - predictors of mental health in a community cohort of Vietnamese refugees
- Authors:
- HAUFF Edward, VAGLUM Per
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 166, March 1995, pp.360-367.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Using a model which included variables from different research traditions the prevalence and course of mental disorders among Vietnamese refugees were studied. From the research it was concluded that the effects of war and persecution were long-lasting, and compounded by adversity factors in exile. Observes that a uniform course of improvement in mental health after resettlement cannot be expected in all contexts and recommends that the affected refugees need systematic rehabilitation.
The 'Ward-in-a-House': residential care for the severely disabled
- Author:
- SHEPHERD Geoff
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 31(1), February 1995, pp.53-69.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Considers the 'new-long-stay' psychiatric patients - also often described as 'difficult-to-place' or as exhibiting 'challenging behaviour', and their need of a new kind of institution - one which has some of the characteristics of hospital and some of the characteristics of conventional, community housing. Services for people with long-term mental illness in the Cambridge Health District are discussed, and the use of the 'Ward-in-a-House' model, and outcomes from the use of this model.
Black people and secure psychiatric facilities: patterns of processing and the role of stereotypes
- Authors:
- BOAST Neil, CHESTERMAN Paul
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Criminology, 35(2), Spring 1995, pp.218-235.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Afro-Caribbeans and Africans form a greater proportion of patients in secure psychiatric hospitals, compared to their representation in the general population of England and Wales. Research evidence is marshalled from the fields of psychiatry and criminology to produce an explanatory model for this finding. A simple theory based solely on the assumption of racist practice is insufficient. Multiple factors and their interaction need to be considered. Crucial to an understanding are those which influence both the mode of presentation to psychiatric services and the use of compulsory detention under the 1983 Mental Health Act. They include rates of arrest and subsequent conviction, the provision and uptake of mental health services, diagnostic practices, and the role of stereotypes. Underlying socio-economic considerations are highlighted where relevant. Argues that background factors are more important than ethnicity alone. They operate through the formation of stereotypes, which modify social judgement. Concludes that over-representation cannot be addressed purely by a modification of admission practices of secure psychiatric facilities.
Seclusion: the use of a stress model to appraise the problem
- Author:
- MASON Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 29.11.95, 1995, pp.31-33.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Raises the issue of the use of seclusion in psychiatric practice. The literature suggests an impasse in understanding the thorny problem of the issue of controlling measures in the management of the violent and aggressive individual. Presents a new model which deals with the issue of staff fear in relation to the decision to use seclusion.
Using the model of human occupation with homeless mentally ill clients
- Authors:
- KAVANAGH Jacqueline, FARES Jill
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 58(1), October 1995, pp.419-422.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Since the introduction of community care, the care of mentally ill people has transferred from hospitals to community settings and has thus resulted in an increase in the number of people with special housing needs. This development, coupled with the high incidence of mental health problems in the homeless population generally, is problematic for community-based mental health workers because the needs of these people are complex and the demand on services becomes greater. The emerging role of the occupational therapist in this field of care is considered and the model of human occupation is proposed as a useful theoretical framework to conceptualise the complex needs of this client group.