Search results for ‘Subject term:"mental health problems"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 10 of 18
Recovery: an alien concept
- Author:
- COLEMAN Ron
- Publisher:
- P and P
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- Wormit
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
An exploration of the concept of recovery by Ron Coleman, including how he gave up being a chronic schizophrenic and went back to being Ron. In ‘Recovery – An Alien Concept’ Ron attempts to reflect on the past and learn the lessons of history in the psychiatric system, by exploring recovery and encouraging professionals, clients and carers to begin their own personal journeys towards recovery. In these pages the reader may feel the pain of those for whom the present system has failed, feel the inspiration and joy of those who have recovered, and the desire to make recovery a reality for all in this new millennium.
Successful vocational rehabilitation for individuals with significant mental disabilities
- Author:
- SPENCE Maria A.S.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 3(1), 2004, pp.37-52.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The services provided to people with significant mental health problems in this American study were designed to address a range of support needs that would foster job retention and increase the number achieving successful employment. This cross-sectional exploratory study sampled 211 people with mental health problems who received vocational rehabilitation support services through a vocational rehabilitation center in Columbus, Ohio. Those sampled experienced both successful and unsuccessful employment closures. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Coaching for recovery: a key mental health skill
- Author:
- BOYLE Don
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 8(1), February 2004, pp.23-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the potential of coaching in mental health. It reports on the work being done by Oxleas NHS Trust, Bexley Council and First Step Trust in partnership with Doing-it Personal and Corporate Coaching to equip managers, workers and service users with the new skill of coaching. Also provides an overview of the GROW model of coaching. Explains how coaching can enable mental health professionals to work confidently with service users to help achieve their individual aspirations and potential.
People with physical impairments and mental health support needs: a critical review of the literature
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 53p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report reviews the literature on the mental health support needs of people with physical impairments. The review is divided into two parts. The first part reviews research literature concerned with psychology, psychiatry and rehabilitation services. The second part of the review looks at what is known about the mental health support needs and experiences of people with physical impairments from a social model perspective. It was the first stage of a research project. (Edited publisher abstract)
In recovery: the making of mental health policy
- Author:
- JACOBSON Nora
- Publisher:
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 208p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Nashville, TN
For hundreds of years, people diagnosed with mental illness were thought to be hopeless cases, destined to suffer inevitable deterioration. Beginning in the early 1990s, however, providers and policymakers in mental health systems came to promote recovery as their goal. But what does recovery truly mean? Traditionally, recovery was defined as symptom abatement or a return to a normal state of health, but as activists, mental health professionals, and policymakers sought to develop “recovery-oriented” systems, other meanings emerged. This analysis describes the complexes of ideas that have defined recovery in various contexts over time. The first meaning, “recovery-as-evidence,” involves the theories, statistics, therapies, legislation, and myriad other factors that constituted the first one hundred years of mental health services provision in the United States. “Recovery-as-experience” brought the voices of patients into the conversation, while “recovery-as-ideology” drew on both recovery-as-evidence and recovery-as-experience to rally support for specific approaches and service-delivery models. This in turn became the basis for “recovery-as-policy,” which developed as assorted representative bodies, such as commissions and task forces, planned reforms of the mental health system. Finally, “recovery-as-politics” emerged as reformers confronted harsh economic realities and entrenched ideas about evidence, experience, and ideology.
The Camberwell Assessment of Need and Behaviour and Symptom Identification Scale as routine outcome measures in a psychiatric disability rehabilitation and support service
- Authors:
- TRAUER Tom, TOBIAS Glen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 40(3), June 2004, pp.211-221,.
- Publisher:
- Springer
While routine outcome measurement is being progressively introduced into mental health services, there is little evidence of its potential in disability rehabilitation and support services. We report the introduction of a measure of need and a self-report measure of mental health problems in such a service in which most of the consumers have a principal diagnosis of a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder. The authors found that just over half of the consumers with a key worker were able and willing to complete these instruments. On average, consumers' self-ratings suggested only moderate levels of mental health problems, and consumers with schizophrenia identified lower levels of need than their key workers. Assessments of need showed more stability over time than assessments of mental health problems.
Impact of multi-agency employment services on employment rates
- Authors:
- PANDIANI John A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 40(4), August 2004, pp.333-345.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Adults with severe and persistent mental illness who received employment services through mental health and/or vocational rehabilitation programs had higher employment rates than individuals who did not receive any employment services. Individuals who received services from both programmes had significantly higher employment rates than individuals who received services from only one program. Results indicate that employment services had a greater relative effect on older clients and clients with a schizophrenia diagnosis than on other individuals. This state-wide study relied exclusively on analysis of administrative/operational databases that provide the employment rates for both recipients of vocational services and other clients.
Recovery: expanding the vision of evidence-based practice
- Authors:
- SOLOMON Phyllis, STANHOPE Victoria
- Journal article citation:
- Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 4(4), Winter 2004, pp.311-321.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health recommended that evidence-based practice and recovery be central components of mental health reform. There has been ongoing debate about the compatibility of evidence-based practice, a medical-model approach, and recovery, a consumer-centered approach. This paper will explore the two concepts and discuss the ways they can, in fact, be complementary when used as guiding principles for services research. Using recovery principles, researchers can address the limitations of evidence-based practice standards, which include relying too heavily on randomized trials, failing to establish effectiveness for diverse populations, and focusing exclusively on program structure rather than process. Including process variables, particularly consumer-provider relationships, enables researchers to study core program components, in addition to structural components, and to provide a more robust empirical basis for service effectiveness.
Vocational rehabilitation: the Enable employment retention scheme, a new approach
- Author:
- ROBDALE Neil
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 67(10), October 2004, pp.457-460.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Enable is a groundbreaking service piloted in Shropshire to provide support for people with mental health problems in order for them to return to work. It began in October 2002 and proved so successful it has been extended and re-funded on a permanent basis into the future. Because of social and economic changes over the past decade the time seems right for occupational therapists to involve themselves in employment. Makes the case for this new type of vocational rehabilitation.
Open the revolving door to opportunity
- Author:
- CORNER Julian
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 181, August 2004, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
The Revolving Doors Agency's approach to mainstreaming its Link Workers schemes highlights an opportunity that many small organisations should seize. The Agency offers partner agencies developmental, support and expertise to increase the number of Link Worker schemes available, rather than Revolving Doors managing more schemes themselves. The schemes provide support for people with mental health problems who have been arrested or imprisoned.