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Daily task performance and information processing among people with schizophrenia and healthy controls: a comparative study
- Author:
- AUBIN Ginette
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 77(9), 2014, pp.466-474(9).
- Publisher:
- Sage
Introduction: Many individuals with schizophrenia have information processing difficulties. This study investigated the use of information processing skills during the performance of a daily task by participants with schizophrenia and compared it to that of participants without a psychiatric diagnosis. Studies comparing similar groups found differences in the number and types of errors. However, there is limited knowledge about the related problematic information processing skills. This information could help to better pinpoint the needs of this group of clients. Method: Participants were paired based on age and gender. Information processing skills were assessed with the Perceive, Recall, Plan, and Perform system of task analysis. Generalised linear mixed models were used to compare both groups. Results: Individuals with schizophrenia made more accuracy errors and had more difficulties when attending and gathering information and when planning was required during the task. They were also more cognitively impaired than the comparison group. Conclusion: The large number of accuracy errors may result from specific skills deficits that impact on other processing skills or from a general vulnerability affecting most processing skills. In future studies, the influence of employment and of the social environment of housing on task performance should be investigated. (Edited publisher abstract)
Psychosocial characteristics and needs of mothers with psychotic disorders
- Authors:
- HOWARD Louise M., KUMAR Howard R., THORNICROFT Graham
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, May 2001, pp.427-432.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
It is not known whether mothers with psychotic disorders are clinically and socially distinct from women with psychoses who have not had children. Article aims to determine the proportion of mothers in an epidemiologically representative population of women with psychotic disorders, to examine the factors associated with having children, and to examine the factors associated with having children 'looked after' by social services. Sixty-three per cent of women with psychotic disorders in the study were mothers. There were no clinical differences between women with or without children, but mothers were more likely to be older and live in unsupported accommodation. Having had a 'looked after' child was associated with Mental Health Act detention, younger age, a forensic history and being Black African. Concludes that many women with psychoses are mothers. Mothers with psychoses are as disabled and have as many needs as women with psychoses without children.
Working with parents with a serious mental illness: what do service providers think?
- Authors:
- BYRNE Linda, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 53(4), December 2000, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Parents with a history of mental illness are vulnerable in many ways and are therefore likely to be accessing services from a range of government and community agencies. The use of multiple services, sometimes with conflicting practice frameworks, can results in sub-optimal management of these families. This Australian study surveyed service providers from a range of government and non-government agencies targeting their views regarding parents with a serious mental illness. The results highlight the need for policy planners and service providers to develop strategies to ensure effective coordination between services that work with this population.
Mental health and the Irish in Britain
- Author:
- TILKI Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Diverse Minds Magazine, 5, March 2000, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Looks at the needs of Irish people in Britain.
Mapping the quality of life of people with severe and enduring mental health problems
- Authors:
- WOLF Judith, BOEVINK Wilma
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(7), March 1999, pp.228-231.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Improving quality of life for people with severe and enduring mental health problems is central to successful care in the community. But service users, carers and professionals may have very different views about what the concept means in practice. Describes how concept mapping can clarify the complex pattern of differing needs and expectations.
Brief social work intervention for people with severe and persistent disorders
- Authors:
- FIRTH Malcolm T., BRIDGES Keith
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 5(2), April 1996, pp.135-143.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
A small-scale pilot study of assessment and short-term care brief social work intervention for people in the community who suffer from severe and persistent mental disorders is described. Case vignettes portray the wide variation in disability - inter-personal, social, and environmental - which subjects endure, in addition to their mental disorders. Although most subjects had a low quality of life they were managing their lives independently, and their coping skills pointed up the need to consider a strengths, rather than a needs, style of assessment. Additionally, a model of care that incorporates change, not just maintenance, seemed appropriate.
Working with schizophrenia: a needs based approach
- Author:
- HOWE Gwen
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 205p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical handbook aimed at all professionals working with people suffering from schizophrenia living in the community. Section 1 identifies what schizophrenia is and its effect on suffers and their families. Section 2 concentrates on identifying and meeting needs. Section 3 outlines a needs based approach. User and carer views are used throughout.
Schizophrenia and social needs
- Authors:
- HARRIES Maria, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Western Australia. Department of Social Work and Social Administra
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 83p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Perth
Australian research study that seeks to identify and describe the problems of living experienced by 2 groups of people with schizophrenia: a group of 150 being discharged from psychiatric hospital, and a group of 50 attending a community psychiatric clinic.
Schizophrenia, psychiatry and East African Muslim families in the United Kingdom: a pilot study
- Authors:
- ALLY Farida, BRENNAN Toni
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 19(1), 2015, pp.45-51.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of East African Muslim families who have a family member diagnosed with schizophrenia in the UK mental health system. Design/methodology/approach: In-depth semi-structured interviews with East African Muslim participants who had a close family member diagnosed with schizophrenia. Findings: Thematic analysis of the interviews revealed participants’ concerns over diagnosis, over the side effects of medication and over the lack of choice of treatment. They reported disappointment and frustration with the rejection by psychiatric services of alternative conceptualisations of mental distress incorporating religious beliefs. Participants called for more culturally sensitive service provision open to taking into account non-western conceptualisations of mental distress and its treatment. Research limitations/implications: Caution should be exercised in drawing firm conclusions from a pilot study with only four participants although generalisation is not an aim of small-scale qualitative research. Practical implications: The overall negative perceptions of psychiatric services in the participants’ accounts point to poor communication between services and service users and their families. If there are attempts at culturally sensitive service provision, according to this study, they are implemented elsewhere/not extensive enough/not reaching everyone – which warrants further investigation. Originality/value: This study is valuable because it offers insights on how East African Muslim families living in the UK (an under-researched minority) experience the impact of living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and contact with mental health services, within the context of a “Western” model of mental distress dramatically different from and rarely open to the conceptualization shared in their culture of origin. (Edited publisher abstract)
Is abuse trauma ignored?
- Author:
- NELSON Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.11.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author examines why mental health services are reluctant to help femail adult survivors of sexual abuse come to terms with their childhood ordeal.