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An approach to staff training in residential services for people with mental health problems: a report of a demonstration project carried out as part of the Caring in Homes' Initiative's training for care staff programme
- Authors:
- PERETZ Liz, PAYNE Chris, YOULL Penny
- Publisher:
- Social Care Centre for Practice and Staff Development
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
The cost of living
- Author:
- LELLIOTT Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 1.2.96, 1996, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Looks at a study of mental health residential facilities in eight areas of England and Wales. The article discusses the range of residential care available to mentally ill people in each area, the characteristics of their residents, the costs of providing the facilities and of services used by residents.
Inside residential care: the realities of hospital versus community settings
- Authors:
- SHEPHERD Geoff, et al
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 72p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report on a study of 25 residential settings for people with mental health problems. Describes the physical and social attributes of the settings studies, the characteristics of the residents and key features of the organisation and delivery of care. Looks in particular at the amount and quality of interaction between staff and residents and explores levels of reported satisfaction among both residents and staff.
User-led assessment of a recovery service using DREEM
- Authors:
- DINNIS Stephen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 31(4), April 2007, pp.124-127.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
The aim was to develop a service development plan supporting recovery-based practice through collaborative service user-led methodology, and contribute to the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) pilot evaluation of recovery sensitive measures. Staff, residents and service user group representatives collaborated in implementing the Developing Recovery Enhancing Environments Measure (DREEM) in a residential rehabilitation service. Staff and residents demonstrated a shared vision of recovery. Many areas were being addressed to a high level but others showed areas of deficiency, and illustrated discrepant views between staff and residents, which provided a focus for the development of a clinical service action plan. As an experimental measure DREEM provides a user-led structure, which enables services to measure their commitment to, and effectiveness in, providing recovery-based care. It focuses service development and enhances collaborative work with service users, thus mirroring the principles of recovery it measures. It merits further evaluation and consolidation.
National care standards: care homes for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Outlines the national care standards for mental health problems in Scotland. Contents: before moving in, standards one to six; settling in, standards seven to eleven; day to day life, standards twelve to eighteen; choosing to leave or move on, standard nineteen.
Young people's secure units face staff and services problems survey finds
- Author:
- PEARCE Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.02, 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the findings of a Community Care Changing Minds survey which found a lack of co-operation between services for young people in secure accommodation.
Hospital hostels: an evaluation of four psychiatric care facilities
- Author:
- EMERSON Andrew
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 185p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study looking at hospital hostels for people with mental health problems. Looks at the origins, development and functions of hospital hostels, which enable residents to live more flexible, community based lives than traditional hospitals, while still having the support of trained staff. Focuses on three hostels, examining the environment, staff and residents, and the operational policies and practices of each one.
Breaking the chains
- Authors:
- RAE Malcolm, MURPHY Maeve, COLLINS Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 5.2.97, 1997, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
High profile cases of sexual abuse in mental health units oblige the profession to face up to the taboo subject of 'inappropriate' staff-patient relationships. The authors suggest measures to protect patient and nurse.
Blowing the whistle on bad design
- Author:
- PENNINGTON Robbie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 4(2), March 1996, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The author was sacked for pointing out critical shortcomings in the design of the new dementia unit he was appointed to manage. An industrial tribunal has now ruled that he was wrongfully dismissed. Details the catalogue of appalling design that led him to speak out.
A special place for people in a special state of being: a conference report on crisis care in mental health
- Author:
- LINDOW Vivien
- Publisher:
- Bristol Survivor's Network
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Papers from a day organised by Bristol Survivors' Network, focusing in particular on a safe place to go during a 'mental health crisis'. Includes papers looking at the experience of mental health crisis, preventing a crisis, the behaviour and attitudes of mental health workers towards people experiencing a crisis, and hospitals and other existing crisis services. Other papers look at places to go that are not hospitals, examining: what is needed in a crisis house; the emotional atmosphere of a crisis house; medication; management arrangements; what kind of skills and support should be available; and issues about access to a safe house.