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What have we learnt about mental health and employment?
- Authors:
- SECKER Jenny, GROVE Bob, SEEBOHM Patience
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 11(1), 2006, pp.8-15.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
This article examines the evidence regarding who can benefit from vocational interventions, service users' motivation to work, how people can be helped to find and keep a job and how unemployment can be prevented in the first place. The authors then look at practice evidence to show how effective services aimed at supporting service users to return or retain contact with the labour market can be developed.
Safeguarding in mental health: towards a rights-based approach
- Author:
- WHITELOCK Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 11(4), November 2009, pp.30-42.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This survey and focus group research conducted by Mind, highlights three key areas where adult safeguarding is failing people with mental health problems. Partly, failures occur because adult protection is still the preserve of social services. Hospitals and community mental health teams are not as engaged in safeguarding and being NHS-led, rely on internal investigation systems to deal with complaints or incidents meaning institutional abuse can go unchecked. Also, discrimination in the criminal justice system means that people with mental health problems are denied equal access to justice which risks their human rights. Thirdly, safeguarding is paternalistic in nature towards all, disempowering individuals, labelling them vulnerable and does not take into account service user preferences in making decisions about the level of risk to their own safety. Since the government’s guidance in 2000’s ‘No Secrets’ Mind research, (‘Silent Witnesses’, ‘Ward Watch’, ‘Another Assault’) has catalogued personal safety issues, abuse and victimisation in private homes, the community, health and social care settings and this current study reports 84% of respondents feeling vulnerable or at risk some or all of the time. The author recommends wholesale revision, moving to preventative practices with users at the core, engaging the NHS and breaking down discrimination within the justice system, otherwise the whole safeguarding project will be undermined by the current experiences of people with mental health problems.
Helping vulnerable adults to keep safe
- Authors:
- COLLINS Mick, WALFORD Mel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 10(1), February 2008, pp.7-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes innovative work in Powys, mid Wales, where trainers are working with vulnerable adults to help them reduce the risk that they will be abused, or if the worst happens, where to turn for help. College staff have developed a course that runs to one afternoon a week for the academic year for people with learning disabilities. For people with mental health problems the approach had been workshop based, with a programme of six or eight workshops, run by skilled trainers. For older people a third approach has been developed because there are so many older people who need to hear about Keeping Safe. After piloting one-off workshops and presentations, the trainer has worked with staff and volunteers from a variety of agencies who already work with older people to train them as trainers working in pairs. Those who have received training will be delivering sessions in luncheon clubs, day services, care homes etc.
Drug use, mental health and social exclusion: cause effect and what we can do about it
- Authors:
- HUNT Neil, ASHENHURST Andy
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.18-21.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Dual diagnosis, mental illness and drug misuse combined, has become the focus of major concern at government policy level and among mental health and drug services providers. Summarises the evidence on the links between mental health and drug use, and reports some welcome recent advances in treatment. Argues that the double exposure of people with dual diagnosis to social exclusion demands greater attention to the questions of cause and effect if this rapidly escalating problem is to be checked, not simply pathologised and contained.
Assertive, but sensitive
- Author:
- DUTT Ratna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.5.00, 2000, p.32.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks about how black people with mental health problems benefit from the work of assertive outreach teams provided team members are experienced, understand users' concerns, and avoid stereotyping.
High time for justice
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 3.3.99, 1999, pp.64-66.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Not only are people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness vulnerable to assault, they tend not to be believed when it occurs. Discusses how the Home Office's new recommendations should help empower mental health service users.
A tricky act to balance
- Authors:
- REPPER Julie, PERKINS Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.3.98, 1998, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Discusses the dilemma facing mental health nurses as on the one hand they are expected to provide services in accordance with the wishes of service users, and on the other faced with increasing demands that both the public and services users are protected.
In search of 'normality'
- Author:
- HURFORD Heather
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.6.02, 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that those planning and implementing crisis and out-of-hours mental health services need to ensure that service users' views are sought and acted upon.
Mission possible: learning through innovation
- Author:
- JAMES Cathy
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 55, November 2001, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
In the second of a series of articles on the 24 innovation projects, the article describes the work of five projects and suggests that Government support means their work should lead to sustained improvement in mainstream children's mental health services.
Under-protection and over-protection: managing the risk of financial abuse
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, BRADLEY Greta
- Journal article citation:
- Breakthrough, 2(1), 1998, pp.35-43.
This article focuses on the issue of financial abuse, arguing that this has been comparatively neglected in work with users of mental health services. Using a case history approach it discusses the concept and definitions of financial abuse and the perspectives of practitioners working in community support services. Issues of gender and mental (in)capacity are raised and the discussion is placed in the context of current service organisations within the UK.