Reports on high levels of dissatisfaction among mental health services users with physical impairments. Two-thirds reported difficulty accessing services. Key concerns included lack of assistance, accessible environments, withdrawal of medication for physical impairment on admission and non-availability when needed, community mental health workers' unfamiliarity with impairments, lack of a co-ordinated approach by GPs and psychiatrists, and fragmented physical/mental needs. People wanted to be seen as whole, with services and professionals communicating and working together. Concludes that services should work together to prevent needs being fragmented by professional and service boundaries.
Reports on high levels of dissatisfaction among mental health services users with physical impairments. Two-thirds reported difficulty accessing services. Key concerns included lack of assistance, accessible environments, withdrawal of medication for physical impairment on admission and non-availability when needed, community mental health workers' unfamiliarity with impairments, lack of a co-ordinated approach by GPs and psychiatrists, and fragmented physical/mental needs. People wanted to be seen as whole, with services and professionals communicating and working together. Concludes that services should work together to prevent needs being fragmented by professional and service boundaries.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health problems, mental health services, multidisciplinary services, physical disabilities, user views;
Reports on high levels of dissatisfaction among mental health services users with physical impairments. Two-thirds reported difficulty accessing services. Key concerns included lack of assistance, accessible environments, withdrawal of medication for physical impairment on admission and non-availability when needed, community mental health workers' unfamiliarity with impairments, lack of a co-ordinated approach by GPs and psychiatrists, and fragmented physical/mental needs. People wanted to be seen as whole, with services and professionals communicating and working together. Concludes that services should work together to prevent needs being fragmented by professional and service boundaries.
Reports on high levels of dissatisfaction among mental health services users with physical impairments. Two-thirds reported difficulty accessing services. Key concerns included lack of assistance, accessible environments, withdrawal of medication for physical impairment on admission and non-availability when needed, community mental health workers' unfamiliarity with impairments, lack of a co-ordinated approach by GPs and psychiatrists, and fragmented physical/mental needs. People wanted to be seen as whole, with services and professionals communicating and working together. Concludes that services should work together to prevent needs being fragmented by professional and service boundaries.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health problems, mental health services, multidisciplinary services, physical disabilities, user views;
The increasing number of children who have multiple and complex disabilities has highlighted the need for new systems of service provision in which health, education and social services and the voluntary sector join together to offer the child and the family a coordinated approach. Although this need is recognised by all tiers of government the call for coordination needs to be accompanied by more practical suggestions as to how to achieve it.
The increasing number of children who have multiple and complex disabilities has highlighted the need for new systems of service provision in which health, education and social services and the voluntary sector join together to offer the child and the family a coordinated approach. Although this need is recognised by all tiers of government the call for coordination needs to be accompanied by more practical suggestions as to how to achieve it.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, learning disabilities, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, physical disabilities, service development, social care provision, teamwork, treatment, therapy and treatment, children, children in need, families;
GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
Publisher:
Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
Publication year:
1997
Pagination:
4p.
Place of publication:
London
Letter accompanying paper focusing on services and good practice in the independent sector for people with complex multiple disabilities.
Letter accompanying paper focusing on services and good practice in the independent sector for people with complex multiple disabilities.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, multiple disabilities, physical disabilities, planning, private sector, purchaser-provider split, social services, voluntary organisations, community care, day services, empowerment, good practice;
Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
Publication year:
1997
Pagination:
48p.
Place of publication:
London
Explores the contribution of independent sector organisations as providers of services for people with complex multiple disabilities. Aims to assist statutory and non-statutory agencies to develop appropriate quality community services for people with complex multiple disabilities by describing some examples of good practice in the independent sector and suggesting how good practice can be encouraged.
Explores the contribution of independent sector organisations as providers of services for people with complex multiple disabilities. Aims to assist statutory and non-statutory agencies to develop appropriate quality community services for people with complex multiple disabilities by describing some examples of good practice in the independent sector and suggesting how good practice can be encouraged.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, multiple disabilities, physical disabilities, planning, private sector, purchaser-provider split, social services, voluntary organisations, community care, day services, empowerment, good practice;
Practice: Social Work in Action, 9(3), 1997, pp.45-58.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Over recent years many Social Services Departments have tended towards specialist teams and away from genericism. This article describes a pilot post of social worker
Over recent years many Social Services Departments have tended towards specialist teams and away from genericism. This article describes a pilot post of social worker
Subject terms:
HIV AIDS, homeless people, homelessness, interagency cooperation, learning disabilities, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, performance evaluation, physical disabilities, social services, social work, social work methods, substance misuse, vulnerable adults, care management, community care;
GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Inter-Departmental Group on Disability. Sub-Group on the Co-ordination of Rehabilitation Services for People with Disabilities
Publisher:
Great Britain. Department of Health. Inter-Departmental Group on Disability
Publication year:
1996
Pagination:
19p.,bibliog.
Place of publication:
London
Report looking at ways of improving communication and co-ordination of service planning and delivery between national and local statutory and non-statutory agencies concerned with rehabilitation, education and training (including employment) for people with disabilities.
Report looking at ways of improving communication and co-ordination of service planning and delivery between national and local statutory and non-statutory agencies concerned with rehabilitation, education and training (including employment) for people with disabilities.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, learning disabilities, joint planning, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, physical disabilities, rehabilitation, social services, training, visual impairment, voluntary organisations, deaf blindness, deafness, education, employment, health care;
GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
Publisher:
HMSO
Publication year:
1995
Pagination:
102p.
Place of publication:
London
Subject terms:
HIV AIDS, inspection, learning disabilities, looked after children, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, older people, physical disabilities, quality assurance, social services, social welfare law, social care provision, staff development, training, alcohol misuse, child protection, community care, children, domestic violence, drug misuse;
GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
Publisher:
Stationery Office
Publication year:
1997
Pagination:
39p.
Place of publication:
London
Government White Paper on the future of social services.
Government White Paper on the future of social services.
Subject terms:
home care, learning disabilities, joint planning, local authorities, local government, local government policy, mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, older people, physical disabilities, policy, policy formulation, private sector, purchaser-provider split, residential care, social services, social work, social work education, social care provision, tendering, voluntary organisations, voluntary sector, adults, central government, community care, children, health care, government policy;
hospital social work, medical social work, medical social workers, looked after children, mental health problems, mental health services, multidisciplinary services, offenders, older people, physical disabilities, private foster care, residential care, residential child care, registers, social work, social work education, social worker-service user relationships, terminal illness, user participation, transracial adoption, transracial foster care, visual impairment, youth justice, anti-discriminatory practice, black and minority ethnic people, case records, care homes, child protection, community care, children, employment, equal opportunities;