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Using an assessment tool for mental health team referrals
- Author:
- MOUNTFORD Lawrence
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 1.6.04, 2004, pp.38-40.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes the use and evaluation of the Threshold Assessment Grid (TAG) developed to define severe mental illness and identify a client's suitability to be treated by secondary mental health services. The tool was implemented into an integrated mental health team.
Well what do you think? (2004): the second national Scottish survey of public attitudes to mental health, mental well-being and mental health problems: summary
- Authors:
- BRAUNHOLTZ Simon, DAVIDSON Sara, KING Susan
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The National Programme for Improving Mental Health is a key part of Scottish Executive’s health improvement and social justice policy development. The first National Scottish Survey of Public Attitudes to Mental Health was commissioned by the Executive in 2002 to help inform the National Programme’s work and to provide relevant baseline data. The second survey was commissioned to track progress towards meeting the aims of the National Programme. The survey was carried out by MORI and conducted among 1,401 adults aged 16+ in Scotland. The sample was designed to be representative of the adult population of Scotland.
Lost and found: voices from the forgotten generation
- Author:
- RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
Mental health has for decades been treated asthe “Cinderella service,” though for the past six years, it has sat alongside cardiac care and cancer as one of the government’s three health priorities. Its priority status has led to a period of dramatic reform and, in certain areas, dramatic investment. However, this period of reform has bypassed many people. The reform process has focused predominately on crisis support but not on those who have been within the mental health system for some years. This campaign highlights the needs of a group of people called the ‘forgotten generation’. These are people with severe mental illness living in the community who have been largely forgotten by mainstream mental health services. For the most part, these are the people who have lived with a severe mental illness for many years, passing through and surviving a series of early crises, feeling rejected by society and who now live their lives without the all-round help and support that would allow them to raise their quality of life.
Yahimba
- Author:
- MacATTRAM Matilda
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2004, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author describes her visit to Yahimba, a supported housing scheme set up by the Wolverhampton based voluntary sector organisations Afro Caribbean Community Initiative (ACCI). Yahimba provides supported housing for African Caribbean women with severe psychiatric problems whom other agencies say are beyond help.
The link between mental health problems and violence behaviour
- Author:
- GREGORY Nathan
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 6.4.04, 2004, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reviews literature on mental illness and violence with the aim of clarifying whether there is a link between the two. Concludes that while higher rates of violence have been found among people with mental illness, most studies have flaws and their results should be viewed with caution. Calls for the development of preventative strategies by providing appropriate support for people with mental health problems.
Thinking through delusions in Alzheimer’s disease
- Authors:
- SHANKS Michael F., VENNERI Annalena
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 184(3), March 2004, pp.193-194.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Delusions are common, disabling and persistent in the course of Alzheimer’s disease and are likely to relate to a range of specific cognitive failures with regional associations as much as to an interaction between neurological and psychosocial factors. It can be suggested that Alzheimer’s disease, far from being a diffuse degenerative disease in the course of which poorly differentiated psychotic symptoms emerge from global neurological causes, offers an opportunity to increase our understanding of higher cognitive functions including normal and abnormal belief formation. The investigation of delusions in this disease, compared with studies of the functional psychoses, has the advantage that a population is studied whose abnormal beliefs appear in a context often relatively free from overlapping psychopathological and treatment effects, perhaps in a form less integral with the individual psyche and against a background of normal cognitive development. Such studies of the breakdown in higher mental functions in the course of Alzheimer’s disease can clarify the fundamental mechanisms involved in delusional thinking and abnormal experience and inform qualitative comparisons with the phenomena seen in the schizophrenias and other delusional disorders. The ‘purer’ culture of individual symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease may, in the end, help provide the basis for a more truly scientific psychopathology.
Children of adults with severe mental illness: mental health, help seeking and service use
- Authors:
- COWLING Vicki, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 28(2), February 2004, pp.43-46.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Reports on an Australian study to determine the prevalence of childhood mental health problems in children of parents registered with an area mental health service, and to study the parents’ help-seeking and service use for their children. Parents were recruited through their case managers, and asked to complete the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Service Utilisation Questionnaire and the Help-seeking Questionnaire. Results found a quarter of the children were in the clinical range of the SDQ total scores, with high sub-scale scores. However, 63 percent of the parents reported reluctance to seek help, and 19 percent reported not using services. Concludes that children of parents with mental illness are at higher risk of childhood psychiatric disorders. Assessment of the child at the time of referral of the parent is an opportunity for problem identification, parental education, and early intervention.
Non-attendance rates among patients attending different grades of psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist within a community mental health clinic
- Authors:
- McIVOR Ronan, EK Emma, CARSON Jerome
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 28(1), January 2004, pp.5-7.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Examines non-attendance rates in patients seen by psychiatrists of different grades and a consultant clinical psychologist. Rates were obtained from the patient administration system over a 21-month period. A planned linear contrast showed that the clinical psychologist's patients had the lowest rate of non-attendance (7.8%), followed in turn by those of consultant psychiatrists (18.6%), specialist registrars (34%) and senior house officers (37.5%). Factors such as continuity of care, perceived clinical competence and the provision of non-medical interventions might have an impact on attendance rates. These results indicate the difficulty in reconciling the training needs of junior doctors with the provision of continuity and quality of care for patients. Reminder systems for people seeing training doctors might be an effective way of reducing non-attendance rates.
Don't be afraid to tell. The spiritual and religious experience of mental health service users in Somerset
- Authors:
- MACMIN Liz, FOSKETT John
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Religion and Culture, 7(1), March 2004, pp.5-22.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Reports on a study undertaken by service users/survivors both as interviewers and interviewees as part of the Somerset Spirituality Project. The research looked at issues such as: how service user/survivor experience and manage their mental health problems with their religious and spiritual needs; whether they are helped by mental health services to do this; any help they have had from local religious and spiritual groups. The group received training in user led research by staff from the Strategies for Living project at the Mental Health Foundation. The results of 25 interviews of service users in Somerset provide the substance of the research in which 11 were analysed in greater detail using a grounded theory approach. The conclusions from the research provide valuable and detailed evidence of the significance of spirituality for some people with severe mental health problems, and of their difficulties they experience in having this aspect of their lives taken as seriously as they wish by both mental health and religious professionals.
The approved social worker's guide to mental health law
- Author:
- BROWN Robert
- Publisher:
- Bournemouth University
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 128p.
- Place of publication:
- Poole
This book has been primarily written for those on the Mental Health Social Work Award (ASW) courses or those helping to provide placement opportunities for ASW trainees. It will also be of use to practising ASWs, other mental health professionals, service users and carers. Contents: civil admissions, guardianship, supervised aftercare; relatives and carers; the role of the approved social worker; patients concerned in criminal proceedings;and consent to treatment and mental capacity. Summaries of current mental health law are provided.