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Mental health and deafness: an investigation of current residential services and service users throughout the UK
- Authors:
- McCLELLAND Roy, CHISHOLM Daniel, POWELL Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(6), December 2001, pp.627-636.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This study aimed to identify and assess all residential facilities that provide services to deaf people with mental health problems, and to elicit detailed information on the demography, clinical characteristics and service needs of the residents. The survey covered a total of 555 residents living in 44 centres, of whom 372 were deaf adults in the age range 16-65. Twenty facilities and 80% of their residents were assessed in more detail. Residents had high levels of functional impairment, with two-thirds having moderate or severe problems in at least one domain of personal functioning including cleanliness, cooking, shopping, use of transport and budgeting. The domains of social activity and risk of harm to self and others differentiated residents in psychiatric wards from those in staffed hostels.
Users' voices: the perspectives of mental health service users on community and hospital care
- Author:
- ROSE Diana
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 120p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a systematic study designed to find out what mental health service users think about living in the community, of their services and of the experiences of being in hospital. The questions were developed and asked by user interviewers. Aimed at mental health service planners and managers, policy makers, service users, practitioners and researchers.
The Comparative guide to the Care Standards Act 2000: parts I and II with the Registered Home Act 1984 (nursing homes and mental nursing homes); for inspectors, legal advisors and providers
- Authors:
- WITTON Marion, GRANT Neil
- Publisher:
- M.Witton & Bevan Ashford
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The Care Standards Act 200 replaces the Registered Homes Act 1984. It provides for the registration authorities to be the newly created National Care Standards Commission for England, and the National Assembly for Wales. This comparative guide sets out the new requirements under the Care Standards Act Parts I and II alongside the previous requirements of the Registered Homes Act with a clear explanation of the changes. Note is made where there was no previous equivalent, or where previous requirements have been removed. Some requirements under both the previous and the new regime are set out in regulations but this guide focuses on the Acts. The sections of the Act are set out in the same order as the Care Standards Act Parts I and II. Précis of each section are provided in boxes.
Outcomes of residential treatment: a study of the adolescent clients of girls and boys town
- Authors:
- LARZELERE Robert E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 30(3), June 2001, pp.175-185.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Pre-treatment and post-treatment data was collected from adolescent clients of a new residential treatment centre in the USA. Young people who received treatment improved significantly on the Child Behaviour Checklist and the Children's Global Assessment Scale and were maintaining their treatment gains at follow-up. Ten months following discharge, the majority were stabilised and functioning adequately in school and with their primary caregiver. For these young people, residential treatment succeeded where other interventions failed.
Inspection of Broadmoor hospital social work service: September 2000
- Authors:
- BISHOP Tim, ADAMS Ken, HORROCKS Christina
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. London Inspec
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Innovative therapeutic care for homeless mentally ill clients: intrapsychic humanism in a residential setting
- Authors:
- TYSON Katherine, CARROLL Emily
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 82(6), November 2001, pp.591-603.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Residential care is increasingly recognised as an invaluable therapeutic resource for homeless, severely mentally ill, and substance-abusing clients. Describes how a comprehensive psychology-intrapsychic humanism-can be used as a flexible, consistent guide for serving this population in residential care. Based on a central principle that staff-client relationships can be path to healing, intrapsychic humanism's other precepts include treatment planning that recognises clients' conflicting motives and strengthens their constructive motives, understanding clients' self-destructive responses to positive experiences, and helping clients govern their self-destructive behaviour while enhancing their self-respect.
Inspection of Rampton high security hospital social work: February - March 2001
- Authors:
- BIRTWISLE Tim, BISHOP Tim
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. East Inspecti
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
The needs and mental health of older people in 24-hour care residential placements
- Authors:
- FAHY M.A., LIVINGSTON G.A.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 5(3), August 2001, pp.253-257.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
At present one in five men and one in three women who reach the age of 65 in the UK today can expect to require 24-hour residential care. They are assessed according to needs as to the type of placement that is required. Little is known about the changing needs and symptoms of residential clients over 65 with mental health problems. The needs and neuropsychiatric symptoms of older people living in residential, nursing and hospital settings were assessed by standardised questionnaire. Seventy-seven residents were interviewed using the Camberwell Assessment of Needs for the Elderly (CANE) and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). The mean CANE for all settings was high. The highest mean CANE was for a residential home and the lowest for a hospital setting. Similar settings had varying NPI and CANE. The data suggests that once placed, subjects needs and neuropsychiatric symptoms do not remain static. It may make both clinical and fiscal sense to reassess subjects. The development of more residential settings, which allow flexibility of degree of care, is recommended.
The social construction of resilience among problem youth in out-of-home placement: a study of health-enhancing deviance
- Author:
- UNGAR Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 30(3), June 2001, pp.137-154.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This American study presents case studies of 43 young people with experience in child welfare, mental health, and correctional settings to examine how resilience is socially constructed by participants and their caregivers. The deviant behaviours of these youth are explained as ways they successfully cope with the risk factors they face. Placement in institutions and community-based residential programmes offers high-risk youth 'forums' in which to create continuities or discontinuities in their identity stories. Collaboration between service partners can have a negative of positive impact on the development of healthy identities in high-risk youth depending on whether care providers participate in the construction of problem-saturated or health-enhancing identities.
Our forgotten elders: older people on the streets and in hostels
- Author:
- CRANE Maureen
- Publisher:
- Mungo's Housing Association
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 54p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes the problems and needs of older homeless people, and looks at effective ways to help them. Examines the prevalence of homelessness among older people; discusses common physical and mental health problems; service provision for this group, with examples of projects and individual case histories; current policy and funding issues; and recommendations for future practice.