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Service provision for young people with intellectual disabilities and additional mental health needs: service-providers’ perspectives
- Authors:
- SCIOR Katrina, GRIERSON Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(3), September 2004, pp.173-179.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Very little is known about young people with intellectual disabilities who experience additional mental health problems. The perspective of service providers has been highlighted as one unresearched area. Semi-structured interviews were completed with senior service providers. Aims: (1) to explore experiences of working with young people with intellectual disabilities and additional mental health problems and their families; (2) to examine views on services’ ability to meet the needs of this group. Service providers identified a gulf between current policy and the reality for this group, not least in terms of all agencies working in partnership. All agencies described instances when young people in this group fall through gaps between services. Interviewees identified a range of factors that promote good outcomes. The results suggest that the focus of current policies to promote joint working needs to be broadened beyond health and social services to ensure much improved links with education providers and the voluntary sector if the needs of this group are to be met.
Working alongside people with long term mental health problems
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel E., REPPER Julie M
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 235p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Concentrates specifically on day to day work with long term users of mental health services, focusing on empowering users as far as possible. Contains sections on: people and their needs; roles and relationships; contexts of support; therapeutic interventions; and challenges for the future.
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.
How to involve users and carers: guidelines on involvement in planning, running and monitoring care services
- Author:
- NATIONAL SCHIZOPHRENIA FELLOWSHIP
- Publisher:
- National Schizophrenia Fellowship
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
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.
Lead professional roles to improve outcomes of socially excluded adults (PSA 16): final report
- Authors:
- JONES Naomi, SHELDON Ruth, PENFOLD Clarissa
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 103p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a summary of a study aimed at understanding what factors contribute to good lead professional practice in delivering PSA16 outcomes. The Socially Excluded Adults Public Service Agreement (PSA) 16 is part of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review and aims to increase the proportion of socially excluded adults in settled accommodation and in employment, education or training. The lead professional is a key element in the delivery of these outcomes and takes responsibility for ensuring that a client’s needs are identified and met as fully as possible. There are currently named lead professional roles for three of the client groups who are the focus of PSA16: personal advisers working with young people leaving care; offender managers working with offenders under probation supervision; care co-ordinators working with mental health service users. There is currently no named lead professional role for people with learning disabilities. Findings highlighted the importance of: enabling more face-to-face contact, both between professionals and service users and between professionals themselves; creating trusting relationships and shared objectives between service providers and professionals, through addressing practical and cultural barriers; ensuring that targets and assessment processes are meaningful and relevant to front-line staff and service users; developing commissioning processes which are evidence based, systematic, open to small innovative providers and strategic rather than reactive and responsive to local need; ensuring that all aspects of service commissioning, management and evaluation have more involvement from frontline staff and service users.
Mission possible: learning through innovation
- Author:
- JAMES Cathy
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 55, November 2001, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
In the second of a series of articles on the 24 innovation projects, the article describes the work of five projects and suggests that Government support means their work should lead to sustained improvement in mainstream children's mental health services.
Time to design upwards in mental health services for older people
- Author:
- GOSS Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 7(3), March 2001, pp.18-22.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Four main areas of working need improvement if services for older people with mental health needs are to match the aspirations of the National Service Framework for Older People and the NHS plan. Describes what needs to be done and says that in the future we should be designing services from the recipient upwards.
A shared approach: developing adult mental health services
- Author:
- ACCOUNTS COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Accounts Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 65p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Study looking at: the development of comprehensive services to meet the needs of users and carers; expenditure on mental health services by the NHS and local authorities in Scotland; how these resources are being used and the extent to which they are being targeted, in line with government policy, on people with the most serious and enduring mental health problems; and examining the ways in which health bodies, local authorities and other agencies are working jointly to plan and provide comprehensive mental health services in Scotland.
Beyond the CMHT: moving mental health services forward in East Yorkshire
- Authors:
- ATKIN Mike, HOSTICK Chris, PECK Edward
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care Management and Planning, 4(2), February 1996, pp.51-57.
- Publisher:
- Pavillion
Recently commentators and clinicians have been challenging the robustness of the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) model. Managers have also become increasingly sceptical about the utility of the traditional, generic CMHT which attempts to combine assessment, care planning and review with service delivery, such as crisis response, assertive outreach, continuing care and primary care liaison and counselling. This case study presents the process of outcome of a strategic review of mental health services in East Yorkshire which may look beyond the CMHT as the preferred way forward.