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Benefits and work for people with mental health problems: a briefing for mental health workers
- Authors:
- SEEBOHM Patience, SCOTT Judy
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 8p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health service users often want to return to work, but after six months of sickness absence, only half ever succeed. Many are unsure or misinformed about how to make the journey into employment without feeling financially or emotionally insecure. It is important for mental health support workers in every field to have some knowledge of the benefits system – this briefing enables them to offer accurate guidance which will help service users make the move into employment with reduced risk to their wellbeing or their income. The briefing identifies seven major disincentives to work which must be tackled by policy makers before returning to employment can become a clear, easy process for service users. Under the present system, people may experience no financial gain, or even a drop in income from working, they may be unable to get financial support for practical needs at work, and they may be forced to undergo an untimely medical review.
New thinking about mental health and employment
- Authors:
- GROVE Bob, SECKER Jenny, SEEBOHM Patience, (eds)
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 162p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Until recently it has been assumed that people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems are unable to work, unless or until they recover. That assumption is now being challenged by international research demonstrating that, with the right support, people can succeed in finding and keeping a job even when they continue to need support from mental health services. This book draws together the research undertaken to date and combines it with mental health service users’ perspectives on the workplace to validate key points.
What have we learnt about mental health and employment?
- Authors:
- SECKER Jenny, GROVE Bob, SEEBOHM Patience
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 11(1), 2006, pp.8-15.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
This article examines the evidence regarding who can benefit from vocational interventions, service users' motivation to work, how people can be helped to find and keep a job and how unemployment can be prevented in the first place. The authors then look at practice evidence to show how effective services aimed at supporting service users to return or retain contact with the labour market can be developed.
Bold but balanced: how community development contributes to mental health and inclusion
- Authors:
- SEEBOHM Patience, GILCHRIST Alison, MORRIS David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Development Journal, 47(4), October 2012, pp.473-490.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Drawing on their own exploratory study of the role community development can play in the UK mental health context (Connect and Include, 2008), the authors of this article discuss how community development can contribute to mental well-being. The article focuses on how community development practitioners connect and include people experiencing mental health difficulties with community activities and mainstream services and increase opportunity and choice. It covers mental health and community context, recovery, inclusion, community-led initiatives, building trust, enabling and challenging, facilitating and light-touch support, and bridging barriers. It includes discussion of the findings from the Connect and Include study, which involved a survey and interviews with community development practitioners and participants in 8 sites across the UK. It identifies challenges for community development practitioners working with mental health service providers and users, and discusses the strengths and potential contribution of the community development approach in improving mental well-being.
Using Appreciative Inquiry to promote choice for older people and their carers
- Authors:
- SEEBOHM Patience, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 14(4), November 2010, pp.13-21.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes how an ‘Appreciative Inquiry’ approach was used in south London to enhance the levels of choice that older adults with dementia or mental health problems and their carers have in relation to the care and support they receive. During this project, a wide range of participants across the borough of Lewisham took part in conversations about making the choices that matter most to them. This article tells the story of this project, its background, the Appreciative Inquiry approach, and what was learnt. The Appreciate Inquiry approach comprises 4 stages: discovery; dream; design; and delivery. In the discovery stage, over 60 people with different roles and backgrounds shared stories in appreciative interviews. The Design Group read all these stories and drew out their common and different themes. On 9 July 2010, 120 people including managers, practitioners, carers, and service users met to share more discovery stories and to convey their visions of the best possible future for older people and their carers, building on what works. Later, the Design Group drew up on action plan for taking the work forward. Through looking at successful stories about making real choice in Lewisham, the project provided information about the conditions that support choice, including the importance of good relationships, building trust, making time, giving and receiving encouragement, and support.
What's in a name? A discussion paper on the labels and location of self-organising community groups, with particular reference to mental health and black groups
- Authors:
- SEEBOHM Patience, MUNN-GIDDINGS Carol, BREWER Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 14(3), August 2010, pp.23-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article discusses the labelling and location of self-organising community groups. It explores the similarities and differences in the way that the terms self-help, peer support and service user groups are used. It notes the increasingly close relationship between these groups and statutory authorities, and how this relationship may put the benefits of the groups at risk. Historical, cultural and social factors are discussed to help explain differences and separate developments within African, Caribbean and other Black communities. It concludes that, regardless of how they are described, many of the self-organising groups that bring together people with a common interest are likely to share the mutuality and reciprocity that builds positive social capital, which, in turn, is associated with well-being and resilience.
Challenging barriers to employment, training and education for mental health service users: the service user's perspective
- Authors:
- SECKER Jenny, GROVE Bob, SEEBOHM Patience
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(4), August 2001, pp.395-404.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
In 1999 the 'Care Programme to Work' project at the Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy undertook a survey of service users in Sheffield. The aim was to identify users' employment, education and training needs, as they perceived them. One hundred and fifty-six interviews were carried out across the city, followed by 11 focus groups to explore vocational issues in more detail and ensure that the views of groups under-represented in the interviews were included. Service users were employed as interviewers and focus group leaders. Open employment was the most frequently identified long-germ goal. The study highlighted the need for an integrated approach to vocational guidance and support; for strong links with employment and educational agencies and with projects supporting diverse groups of users; for access to impartial benefits advice; and for mental health services themselves to take a lead in providing and promoting employment opportunities.