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Job retention: developing a service
- Author:
- BUTTERWORTH Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 6(4), December 2001, pp.17-20.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Reports on the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust's work development programme, which is a NHS Beacon award winner. Looks at the origins and development of the service.
When does personality disorder become enduring mental illness
- Author:
- SHAD Douglas
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 19.5.99, 1999, p.52.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
At the heart of mental health care practice is the question of what constitutes a severe and enduring mental health problem. In this article, the author maintains that there is confusion about the best use of resources and appropriate targeting of patients. He questions the wisdom of generic services trying to meet the complex and often long-term needs of people with a personality disorder.
Keys to engagement: review of care for people with severe mental illness who are hard to engage with services
- Editor:
- SEYMOUR Emma
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 104p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Review focusing on the needs and aspirations of people with severe mental health problems who are not engaging with services. Examines how services can best address the needs of this group of people. Presents a core service model and a series of steps which need to be taken nationally and locally to enable systematic service development across the various agencies involved.
Mental health in London: priorities for action; a report by the Mental Health Task Force London project
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Mental Health Task Force
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at service provision for severely mentally ill people in London.
Mental illness and community care: an open letter to the Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. John Major MP
- Author:
- NATIONAL SCHIZOPHRENIA FELLOWSHIP
- Publisher:
- National Schizophrenia Fellowship:
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
Letter to the Prime Minister highlighting the flaws in the government's care in the community approach for people with mental health problems.
Selecting a rating scale for evaluating services to the chronically mentally ill
- Authors:
- GREEN R.S., GRACELY E.J.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 23(2), 1987, pp.91-102.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Reports on a comparison between seven different brief rating scales and the criteria used in selecting the most appropriate.
MyCare: the challenges facing young carers of parents with a severe mental illness
- Authors:
- ROBOTHAM Dan, et al
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 48p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are an estimated 50,000 to 200,000 young people in the UK caring for a parent with mental health problems. The study reviewed past research and collected information from young carers, young carers’ service workers, mental health professionals and education professionals. The study involved obtaining information through a mixture of surveys, interviews and focus groups. Of particularly interest to the report was service provision for young carers, how they learnt to best cope with their situation, and the strategies they use to do so. The findings showed that young carers are a varied population and that many are carrying out their duties with a great deal of resilience. However, they did feel as though they needed respite from their caring role, at least for a period of time. Young carers wanted someone to talk to, who would listen and not judge them. They wanted consistency and dependability from workers. They wanted to be visible to their parent’s care team, and to be included in discussions about their parent’s treatment. Some wanted to be free of their caring role. Some also felt that they had a better, closer relationship with their parent(s) than they would otherwise, because of their caring role.
Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich, OM : a'hands-on' advocate of music therapy in mental hospitals
- Author:
- ROLLIN H. R.
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 27(1), January 2003, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
One of the major attractions of the music therapy project was to hold monthly concerts featuring members of the group for the entertainment of other patients at the hospital, any interested members of staff, and a surprisingly large number of patients' relatives, who came mainly from London.
Acute mental health admissions in inner London: changes in patient characteristics and clinical admission thresholds between 1988 and 1998
- Authors:
- FITZPATRICK N.K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 27(1), January 2003, pp.7-11.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
The authors undertook a retrospective case-note review of three cohorts of mental health admissions to determine the extent to which patient and service characteristics changed between 1988 and 1998. Changes in clinical admission thresholds were investigated by a psychiatrists' review of handwritten medical admission assessments. Patients admitted in 1998 were demographically less stable and clinically more complex than those admitted 10 years earlier. Clinical admission thresholds remained consistent. Findings suggest that the perceived increase in pressure on psychiatric services over this period was a response to a change in population need. This study highlights important questions about the clinical decision-making process leading to use of alternatives to admission and the appropriateness of acute admissions.
Shit is good: mental health social work with squalor
- Author:
- SMITH Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 15(1), May 2001, pp.37-56.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper investigates the phenomenon of three clients living in squalor, all of whom have severe and enduring mental health problems, and are on the caseload of a mental health social work team. By thinking about the clients both individually and as a group, within a psychoanalytic framework, it attempts to understand their squalor in a new way, with a particular regard to the transference and counter transference experienced by the practitioner. By making use of social work literature as well as that concerning organisations and community care, it also discusses the impact these clients make on the wider community around them, and examines some of the dilemmas faced by the practitioner. The implications for social work are serious and far-reaching, and these are discussed with regard to long-term intervention as well as professional and personal scrutiny.