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Promoting care and justice: report of the Mental Health Foundation's regional conference on improving services for mentally disordered offenders
- Editor:
- NEWMAN Caroline
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains conference papers on: defining terms and identifying issues; multi-agency approaches; needs assessment and service delivery; and suggestions for core tasks for improving services to offenders with mental health problems and for research and development work.
The family empowerment program: an interdisciplinary approach to working with multi-stressed urban families
- Authors:
- CLEEK Elizabeth N., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Family Process, 51(2), June 2012, pp.207-217.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Institute for Community Living, a not-for-profit organisation providing support and services to adults, children and families in New York, designed and implemented a family therapy programme which partners multi-stressed families with an interdisciplinary resource team. It is intended as a proactive response to fragmentation of care, enabling families to address a broad range of mental health and other concerns using a multidisciplinary team. The 3 core components are: family advocacy (parents who have sought mental health services for their children and families), entitlements counselling (offering expertise in finance, benefits and housing), and family therapy (therapists from the agency's Outpatient Mental Health Clinic working with families from a strength-based family therapy perspective). The programme's aim is to support families in achieving their goals through co-construction of a service plan that addresses the family's needs. This article describes the programme and how it works, and includes a case example.
Social work practice in mental health: an introduction
- Authors:
- BLAND Robert, RENOUF Noel, TULLGREN Ann
- Publisher:
- Allen and Unwin
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 272p.
- Place of publication:
- St. Leonards, NSW
This text aims to be a comprehensive guide to professional practice for social workers whose clients have mental health issues. It is written to provide a knowledge base for practice with people with the most commonly-encountered mental health problems. Two key themes permeate the book: the importance of appreciating the lived experience of mental illness, and of establishing partnerships based on incorporating a consumer perspective into the various mental health works. The authors emphasise the healing potential in relationships between consumers, carers and service providers. The book is organised in two parts. The first outlines the context in which social work practice in mental health operates including; theoretical, policy, legal, conceptual, and medical issues. The second part focuses on various practical aspects of social work practice such as; assessment, case management, the challenge of some practice settings, family work, community work, and the application of the principles of partnership to work with individuals and their families, as well as multidisciplinary teams and agencies.
Service provision for young people with intellectual disabilities and additional mental health needs: service-providers’ perspectives
- Authors:
- SCIOR Katrina, GRIERSON Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(3), September 2004, pp.173-179.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Very little is known about young people with intellectual disabilities who experience additional mental health problems. The perspective of service providers has been highlighted as one unresearched area. Semi-structured interviews were completed with senior service providers. Aims: (1) to explore experiences of working with young people with intellectual disabilities and additional mental health problems and their families; (2) to examine views on services’ ability to meet the needs of this group. Service providers identified a gulf between current policy and the reality for this group, not least in terms of all agencies working in partnership. All agencies described instances when young people in this group fall through gaps between services. Interviewees identified a range of factors that promote good outcomes. The results suggest that the focus of current policies to promote joint working needs to be broadened beyond health and social services to ensure much improved links with education providers and the voluntary sector if the needs of this group are to be met.
Mental health in London: developing a strategy for action; update report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. National Health Service Executive
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Health Service Executive
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Charts the process of change and development for London's mental health services, beginning with the development of a strategic framework for action.
Fresh thinking
- Authors:
- GREEN Martin, AGGETT Percy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.12.97, 1997, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how the care programme approach improved delivery of mental health services in London's City and Hackney area.
Risking our sanity
- Author:
- UNELL Ira
- Journal article citation:
- Druglink, 12(5), September 1997, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Drugscope
- Place of publication:
- London
Mentally ill drug users are among the worst-serviced groups in the community, with both mental health and drug services often refusing to acknowledge their existence. This creates a huge scope for misdiagnosis. Argues that unless services can recognise and respond appropriately to all their clients, they effectively exclude them. A re-examination of the suitability of harm reduction tactics when dealing with mentally ill drug misusers is required.
The buck stops here
- Authors:
- GLEGHORN Maggie, BENNETT Andrea, TAYLOR Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.2.97, 1997, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
People with learning difficulties who also have mental health problems are being passed backwards and forwards. The authors explain an initiative which aims to improve service co-ordination.
A joint agency agreement for mental health services and a joint strategy for mental health in Liverpool: summary
- Authors:
- CITY OF LIVERPOOL. Social Services Directorate, LIVERPOOL HEALTH AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- City of Liverpool. Social Services Directorate
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Direct support
- Author:
- LINEHAN Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.2.95, 1995, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A scheme has been set up in West Dorset to help offenders with mental health problems. Mendos, the Mentally Disordered Offenders Scheme discovered quite soon after its establishment that women in this situation had been ignored. Looks at a new initiative to provide a service to women.