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Mental health in Northern Ireland: overview, strategies, policies, care pathways, CAMHS and barriers to accessing services
- Authors:
- BETTS Jennifer, THOMPSON Janice
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Assembly. Research and Information Service
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This paper provides an overview of mental health and illness in Northern Ireland, including the issues of self-harm and suicide. It highlights the relevant overarching strategies and policies and those specific to mental health, mental illness and suicide for Northern Ireland; describes the care pathway for treating mental health problems, including an overview of the stepped care model and recovery model; looks at provision of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS); and discusses evaluations of mental health service provision in NI in terms of accessing services and barriers to access. It also highlights relevant initiatives in England, Wales, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland relating to accessing mental health services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Trials and tribulations - an RCT comparing manualized family therapy with treatment as usual and reflections on key issues that arose in the implementation
- Authors:
- COTTRELL David, BOSTON Paula
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Therapy, 38(2), 2016, pp.172-188.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
SHIFT has been one of the largest RCTs in the field of systemic family therapy in the UK. The study took place over five years, including three major centres with fifteen Trusts and twenty-five family therapists who worked with a manualised treatment in CAMHS with adolescents who self-harmed. While the results are not available at the time of this publication, this paper will briefly describe the pre- existing factors which were helpful in developing a successful bid, clinical and managerial elements of ‘real world research’ of complex psychological processes and the construction of the manualized systemic family therapy. It also offers examples of some of the unanticipated events in the life of such a large trial. (Publisher abstract)
Adolescents’ understanding of mental health problems: conceptual confusion
- Author:
- LEIGHTON Sharon
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 8(2), June 2009, pp.4-14.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
As part of a multiphase doctoral research study, this paper discusses young people’s literacy with regard to mental health terminology, by using vignette-based questionnaires to highlight their abilities in recognising two diagnosable mental illnesses and three mental health problems associated with loss. In 2006-2007, a school-based sample of 12-15 year olds in the West Midlands, responded to vignettes about the mental health problems of acting out/externalising distress, grief and stress/self harm and vignettes about depression and early onset psychosis, both diagnosable mental illnesses. The author graded the responses and this paper contains tables detailing the grades and codes used as well as the results. A discussion between the differences between professional and lay understanding of mental health and mental illness terminology is presented with possible implications for practice and training, in the future, across child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) tiers. The conceptual confusion and dearth of semantic clarity demonstrated in this research could be related to young people’s perception of the ubiquitous term, depression. Increasing clarity and improving young people’s literacy with regard to mental health will help combat the stigma of mental illness.
Teacher knows best
- Authors:
- HALL Brian, HALL Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, November 2007, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article discusses a self-harm project launched by the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS). The project linked CAMHS practitioners with teachers at primary schools in order to provide preventive interventions focusing on the problems that lead to self-harm and help young people find alternative methods of problem-solving and seeking help. The project devised a simple screening tool - the vulnerability assessment screening tool (VAST) - which teachers used to assess children about whom they had concerns. The problem has enabled teachers to provide preventive interventions in the classroom, only referring children to CAMHS if intervention fails to reduce the child's VAST score.
Talking points in child and adolescent mental health
- Editors:
- BROOKS Emily, AYRES Catherine
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists. Research Unit. FOCUS
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 89p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd
Summary of multi-professional participation in the FOCUS email discussion group (September 2000-September 2001).FOCUS was launched in 1997 to promote clinical and organisational effectiveness in child and adolescent mental health services, with an emphasis on incorporating evidence-based research into everyday practice. FOCUS is funded by a grant from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and from Section 64 funding from the Department of Health. FOCUS is part of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Research Unit in London.
Current issues in child and adolescent mental health services
- Editors:
- DRAYCOTT Simon, AYRES Catherine
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists. Research Unit,|Bedfordshire and Luton Community
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 90p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents a summary of multi-professional discussions from the FOCUS email discussion group (September 1999-September 2000). Topics include: ADHD, emotional disorders, juvenile delinquency, self harm, eating disorders, psychosis, and service provision and development.
Primary Mental Health Workers within Youth Offending Teams: a new service model
- Authors:
- CALLAGHAN Jane, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 26(2), April 2003, pp.185-199.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
Primary Mental Health Workers (PMHWs) have been deployed to address the mental health needs of young offenders referred to Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) in two UK areas. The mental health characteristics of 60 young people consecutively referred to these PMHWs, the assessment outcome and interventions offered, are described. In addition to the anticipated concerns about oppositional/aggressive behaviour, young people were referred for a range of mental health problems. There were high levels of emotional problems, self-harm, peer and family relationships difficulties, and school non-attendance. PMHWs offered a range of direct interventions, as well as consultation to YOT staff. The service findings indicate the usefulness of such an inter-agency model in strengthening the links between specialist CAMHS and YOTs, and providing an accessible, responsive and effective service to a needy group of young people.