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Therapeutic interventions for foster children: a systematic research synthesis
- Authors:
- CRAVEN Patricia Ann, LEE Robert E.
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 16(3), May 2006, pp.287-304.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Approximately 30% of children in foster care have severe emotional, behavioural, or developmental problems. A systematic research synthesis of empirical studies was conducted in an attempt to identify and classify therapeutic interventions for foster children. Utilizing a treatment protocol classification system, empirical studies were classified according to their theoretical, clinical, and empirical support. A total of 18 studies were reviewed, including a compare and contrast of methodological strengths and shortcomings. In all, 6 out of the 18 interventions may be considered well-supported and efficacious, 3 interventions were determined to be supported and probably efficacious, and 9 were supported and acceptable. Interventions recognizing the unique experience of foster children and foster family dynamics were found to be lacking in the current literature.
Mental health, drugs and the call to reinstate harm reduction
- Author:
- CHAISTY David
- Journal article citation:
- Drugs and Alcohol Today, 6(4), December 2006, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author argues there is a risk that harm reduction is being taken for granted. He goes on to champion the logic and power of harm reduction to reassert its use not just among drug or alcohol problems, with also for people with mental health issues.
For youth by youth: innovative mental health promotion at Youth Net/Reseau Ado
- Authors:
- DAVIDSON Martin, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 1(3), December 2006, pp.269-273.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Youth today are experiencing significant rates of mental illness and are generally reluctant or unable to seek out traditional mental health services. Youth Net/Reseau Ado (YN/RA) is a bilingual mental health promotion organization in Canada run by youth for youth that provides innovative, youth-friendly programming in an effort to address the distress experienced by youth. This article provides a description of the YN/RA organization which offers unique, community-based programming that includes mental health focus groups, youth initiatives (snowboarding, art and hiking programmes), and support groups for youth in need.
The effective family programme: preventative services for the children of mentally ill parents in Finland
- Authors:
- SOLANTAUS Tytti, TOIKKA Sini
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 8(3), August 2006, pp.37-44.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Effective Family Programme was initiated in Finland in 2001 to provide methods for health and social services to support families and children of mentally ill parents. The methods are implemented and clinicians are trained in psychiatric services and primary health care. The methods include the Beardslee Preventive Family Intervention, a parent-focused Let's Talk about Children Discussion and the Network Meeting. This article describes the EF Programme with reference to the development of services in the national health care system.
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.
Suicide in mental health in-patients and within 3 months of discharge: national clinical survey
- Authors:
- MEEHAN Janet, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 188(2), February 2006, pp.129-134.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Background Suicide prevention is a health service priority. Suicide risk may be greatest during psychiatric in-patient admission and following discharge. This study aimed to describe the social and clinical characteristics of a comprehensive sample of in-patient and post-discharge cases of suicide. A national clinical survey based on a 4-year (1996–2000) sample of 4,859 cases of suicide in England and Wales who had been in recent contact with mental health services. There were 754 (16%) current in-patients and a further 1100 (23%) had been discharged from psychiatric in-patient care less than 3 months before death. Nearly a quarter of the in-patient deaths occurred within the first 7 days of admission; 236 (31%) occurred on the ward, the majority by hanging. Post-discharge suicide was most frequent in the first 2 weeks after leaving hospital; the highest number occurred on the first day. It is concluded that suicide might be prevented among in-patients by improving ward design and removing fixtures that can be used in hanging. Prevention of suicide after discharge requires early community follow-up and closer supervision of high-risk patients.
Suicide within 12 months of mental health service contact in different age and diagnostic groups: national clinical survey
- Authors:
- HUNT Isabelle, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 188(2), February 2006, pp.135-142.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Background Suicide prevention is a health service priority but the most effective approaches to prevention may differ between different patient groups. This study aimed to describe social and clinical characteristics in cases of suicide from different age and diagnostic groups. A national clinical survey of a 4-year (1996–2000) sample of 4,859 cases of suicide in England and Wales where there had been recent contact with mental health services. Deaths of young patients were characterised by jumping from a height or in front of a vehicle, schizophrenia, personality disorder, unemployment and substance misuse. In older patients, drowning, depression, living alone, physical illness, recent bereavement and suicide pacts were more common. People with schizophrenia were often in-patients and died by violent means. About a third of people with depressive disorder died within a year of illness onset. Those with substance dependence or personality disorder had high rates of disengagement from services. Prevention measures likely to benefit young people include targeting schizophrenia, dual diagnosis and loss of service contact; those aimed at depression, isolation and physical ill-health should have more effect on elderly people.
HMT/DfES joint policy review: children and young people
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document provides the response from SCIE to the HM Treasury (HMT) and Department for Education and Skills’ (DfES) call for evidence on the review of children and young people. It looks at the prevention strand and the review of high cost, high harm families. SCIE welcomes the HMT/DfES focus on a preventative approach to supporting children and young people, drawing on work around parental mental health and child welfare to illustrate the importance of early intervention and of a whole family approach. It argues that the needs of the whole family should be viewed separately but also together in the ways that the different needs and behaviours of different family members interrelate and impact on each other. However, specialisation in health and social care services mean that families are not treated as a whole and their interrelatedness is not recognised. This separation has led to a situation where staff in adult mental health services focus on the adult with insufficient attention paid to the adult as a parent and his/her dependent children. Staff in children's services put insufficient emphasis on the mental health needs of parents and the potential adverse impact on children.
Assessment scales in child and adolescent psychiatry
- Authors:
- VERHULST Frank C., VAN DER ENDE Jan
- Publisher:
- Informa Healthcare
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 220p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental disorders such as Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression and autism have devastating consequences on the lives of children and adolescents. Early assessment of their mental health problems is essential for preventative measures and intervention. Assessment Scales in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a unique compendium which summarizes over 100 scales across the field of mental disorders in children and adolescents. Every scale is accompanied by information on the completion of each instrument to allow the reader to see, at a glance, the scope of the scale and its application. This guide will be of interest to everyone involved in assessing the mental health problems of children and adolescents and the effect that these may have on their daily life.
The Effective Family Programme II: clinicians' experiences of training in promotive and preventative child mental health methods
- Authors:
- TOIKKA Sini, SOLANTAUS Tytti
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 8(4), November 2006, pp.4-10.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
For this programme, mental health clinicians in Finland were trained to master interventions and to become trainers for promotion of development and prevention of mental health problems in children with mentally ill parents. A multi-professional group of 45 clinicians were involved in the training, including eighteen nurses, nine social workers, six medical doctors, six psychologists and six public health nurses. The trainees' experiences of the impact of the training on their professional skills and work satisfaction, on one hand, and implementation of the methods, on the other, were examined. The data was collected by a questionnaire. The 30 respondents (response rate 83%) reported an increase in their professional skills as well as in work-related joy and motivation. Most of them had trained others, and implementation of the new working methods had started. The success factors of the Effective Family training for first phase of the implementation are discussed.