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A guide to user-focused monitoring: setting up and running a project
- Authors:
- KOTECHA Nutan, et al
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 96p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides a step-by-step guide to managing a user-focused monitoring (UFM) project. It is based on over ten years’ experience of local monitoring projects across the country. It shows how the unique perspective of people who use services can create research that breaks boundaries and gives service providers a new insight into the impact they have on people’s lives.
The social worker and psychotropic medication: toward effective collaboration with mental health clients, families and providers
- Authors:
- BENTLEY K., WALSH J
- Publisher:
- Wadsworth
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 305p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Stamford, CT
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Offers aspiring and practicing social workers information and guidance on medication issues when working with people with mental health problems. Contains sections on: history and overview of social work roles in medication management; defining effective collaboration between users, families, and service providers; a primer on psychopharmacology (including data on specific medications for specific disorders); knowledge and skills for psychosocial interventions; and future directions.
Involving service users in mental health services: social services departments and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
- Author:
- BOWL Ric
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 5(3), July 1996, pp.287-303.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines user involvement in community care services directed toward those experiencing mental distress. It analyses past experience of involvement in service delivery and planning and the issues this highlights. It reports on two research studies which reveal considerable confusion about the meaning and purpose of user involvement, little evidence of power-sharing with users and limited commitment of resources to make further participation possible. Interviews with users reveal enthusiasm of extending their own involvement if they receive appropriate support. The conclusion considers continuing barriers to developing effective participation of service users in the management and delivery of services.
Making Individual Placement and Support work: an evaluation of implementation and sustainability
- Authors:
- GILBERT David, PAPWORTH Rachel
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- London
An independent evaluation of the success factors for the implementation and sustainability of Individual Placement and Support (IPS), and evidence-based approach to supporting people with severe mental health problems into employment. Interviews were carried out across six sites where IPS was being expanded, to explore the critical success factors for implementing and sustaining IPS services. The evaluation found that IPS services helped people to get jobs, developed clients' confidence and, as a result, improving staff morale. Organisational factors that helped in the adoption of IPS included a recovery-focused culture, 'pioneers' within the organisation who had already used IPS, and good relationships with other employment services. The evaluation also identified challenges in implementing a new service, such as significant change management, the need to build strong cross-sector relationships with other services, and a lack of clarity over role boundaries. The report makes recommendations to help organisations to expand the provision of IPS, building on the learning from the Making IPS Work project. (Edited publisher abstract)
Power play
- Authors:
- HIRD Martin, CASH Keith
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 101, January 2000, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- MIND
This paper presents the argument that risk assessment should be a shared enterprise between users and professionals. Illustrates ways in which users can become actively involved in assessment and management.
Clear and present danger
- Author:
- GULLAND Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.11.99, 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
A recent report claims that community psychiatric nurses may abuse patients more often than the profession would like to admit. This report examines the accusations.
Self-assessment for mental health
- Authors:
- le GRAND Damaris, KESSLER Earl
- Journal article citation:
- Management Issues in Social Care, 3(4), 1996, pp.1-2.
- Publisher:
- OLM Systems
The authors talk about the Avon Mental Health Measure, which is a means of assessing the needs of users with mental health problems. MEASURE stands for Management Evaluation And Service User ResponsE and the document has five sections: physical, social, behaviour, access, and mental health. The aim of the document is to give more control to the user. Finds out how effective the Avon Mental Health Measure is.
Community mental health teams: lessons for planners and managers
- Authors:
- PATMORE Charles, WEAVER Tim
- Publisher:
- Good Practices in Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 192p.,tables,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report commissioned by the Department of Health. Examines practices at 6 Community Mental Health Centres, looking at: team resources, organisation and management; the clients served; services provided to sufferers from serious mental illness; high care support teams; and teamwork at multi-professional CMHC's. Concludes with lessons for planners and managers.
Collaboration for change: partnership between service users, planners and managers of mental health services
- Author:
- SMITH Helen
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Broadening the definition of leadership: active citizens as leaders of change
- Author:
- Connor Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The term leadership has been often applicable within the work domain, where development programmes are aimed at managers and lead organisations. However the government has recognised that changes in public services require the collaboration of many stakeholders working together in partnership and has placed at the core of its policies the need to include users and carers.