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Mental health strategy for Scotland 2012-15
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Mental illness is one of the top public health challenges in Europe as measured by prevalence, burden of disease and disability. It is estimated that mental disorders affect more than a third of the population every year, the most common of these being depression and anxiety. About 1-2% of the population have psychotic disorders, and across Europe 5.6% of men and 1.3% of women have substance misuse disorders. The ageing population is leading to an increase in the number of people with dementia, 5% of people over 65 and 20% of those over 80 years of age. In all countries, most mental disorders are more prevalent among those who are most deprived. The prevalence of mental disorders does not appear to be changing significantly over time, though more people are accessing treatment and support as understanding grows and the stigma of mental illness is reducing. This Scottish Government’s mental health strategy to 2015 sets out a range of key commitments across the full spectrum of mental health improvement, services and recovery to ensure delivery of effective, quality care and treatment for people with a mental illness, their carers and families.
Too much too young
- Author:
- MIZEN Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 116, Summer 2012, pp.19-21.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
This article examines how the experiences of being a carer during childhood can have long-term consequences in later life. The author, a consultant running a psychotherapy service for people with serious mental health problems, had noticed that about 25% of patients had been involved in a caring capacity during childhood for a parent or sibling. The article suggests that the long-term emotional and financial costs of placing the burden of care on young people might provide an incentive to policy makers to provide adequate support to families where children are caring for sick relatives.
Applying a personalised approach to eligibility criteria
- Author:
- BOGG Daisy
- Publisher:
- Open University
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 136p.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
The eligibility criteria for social care can be difficult to apply to users with complex social and psychological needs. Social workers are under increasing pressure to ensure that applications for funding are well constructed in order to ensure the financial support allocated to individual and personal budgets are appropriate and maximise the options for the client. This pocketbook aims to provide a guide for those assessing and supporting individuals with complex needs such as mental health, substance misuse or learning disability. It offers guidance on how these types of issues can be applied to eligibility criteria to asses social care funding within a personalised approach targeted at recovery and improved quality of life. The book: describes legal frameworks for assessment and service delivery; examines specific elements of eligibility criteria; provides practice suggestions and checklists; and explores the interface between fair access to care services and NHS CHC criteria. Illustrative case studies are used throughout.
The family empowerment program: an interdisciplinary approach to working with multi-stressed urban families
- Authors:
- CLEEK Elizabeth N., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Family Process, 51(2), June 2012, pp.207-217.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Institute for Community Living, a not-for-profit organisation providing support and services to adults, children and families in New York, designed and implemented a family therapy programme which partners multi-stressed families with an interdisciplinary resource team. It is intended as a proactive response to fragmentation of care, enabling families to address a broad range of mental health and other concerns using a multidisciplinary team. The 3 core components are: family advocacy (parents who have sought mental health services for their children and families), entitlements counselling (offering expertise in finance, benefits and housing), and family therapy (therapists from the agency's Outpatient Mental Health Clinic working with families from a strength-based family therapy perspective). The programme's aim is to support families in achieving their goals through co-construction of a service plan that addresses the family's needs. This article describes the programme and how it works, and includes a case example.
Mental health transitions: an integrated practice example
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Place of publication:
- London
Four young people describe, in an intensely personal way, how transition from CAMHS felt for them. They discuss the onset of their mental health problems and their experience of transition to adult services, which they describe as scary, confusing, and ‘like falling down a cliff with rocky bits'. Admission to adult wards was particularly frightening. Young people and their families want information, joined up services, and to be listened to. Otherwise, being discharged ‘feels like being given up on'. The second half of the film is about the integrated Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust. The challenge is to improve transition when young people are no longer eligible for services from the child and adolescent mental health team at the age of 16. Young people were getting lost in the gap between services and many were not accessing services. The aim of creating special new services is to decrease the anxiety of young people and their families and to improve the transition. Services managed by health include a transition clinic, whilst social services run a peer support group and a drop-in counselling service. Staff and young people talk about the ways in which these new services are of benefit.
Severe and multiple disadvantage: a review of key texts
- Authors:
- DUNCAN Mark, CORNER Julian
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 31
- Place of publication:
- London
Summarises the findings from key texts that address severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD), covering the co-occurrence of homelessness, drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems, cycles of violence and abuse, and chronic poverty. The review highlights attempts to: define the issue politically; provide data on the scope and scale of SMD; highlights effective services; and makes recommendations for service delivery and government policy. The review also identifies key political benefits for future action, including cost effectiveness resulting from reducing overlaps in service provision and the development of new and innovative services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Facts about carers 2012: policy briefing
- Author:
- CARERS UK
- Publisher:
- Carers UK
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication provides an overview of key facts and figures about carers. It includes information on: the number of carers; the characteristics of carers; what carers do; who carers care for; the impact of caring; and support for carers. It includes statistics on employment, health, age, tasks, finances and poverty, and rights. It reports that the vast majority of care in the UK is provided by family, friends and relatives. The care they provide is worth an estimated £119bn per year. Social services and the NHS rely on carers’ willingness and ability to provide care. The latest estimates suggest that there are nearly 6.5 million carers in the UK, a rise of just over 9%, from 5.8 million in 2001. This represents 10.5% of the total population, or 12.6% of the adult population.
Mental health and homelessness: planning and delivering mental health services for homeless people
- Author:
- NHS CONFEDERATION. Mental Health Network
- Publisher:
- NHS Confederation. Mental Health Network
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Around 70% of people accessing homelessness services have a mental health problem. St Mungo’s homelessness charity has estimated that 64% of their clients have drug and/or alcohol problems. Although the causes of homelessness are complex, mental ill health is a major contributing factor. Becoming homeless can worsen existing conditions or cause a mental health problem to occur. This Briefing sets out the policy context around tackling homelessness and addressing the mental health needs of homeless people. It also examines what considerations need to be made when planning, designing and delivering mental health services for homeless people and highlights many examples of good practice. The report concludes that access to mental health services for homeless people can be improved through improving staff awareness and delivering services differently – including use of non-clinical settings – plus through effective joint working with partner agencies.
The right to take risks: service users' views of risk in adult social care
- Author:
- FAULKNER Alison
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Commissioned as part of a scoping programme on rights, responsibilities, risk and regulation in adult social care, this paper looks at service users' perspectives on issues concerning their right to decide about the risks they wish to take in their lives and on their right to be protected from risks. It is based on existing literature presenting the views or experiences of service users or disabled people and discussions with service users and disabled people from a range of different backgrounds and experiences. It presents the views of service users on risk, the balance between risk and benefits, rights, responsibility, and the role of regulation. It identifies additional risks and fears to those commonly identified by professionals and policy makers and notes that perceptions of risk and rights are significantly different for mental health service users.
Improving health and lives: the Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 6(1), 2012, pp.26-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
People with intellectual disabilities experience significant health inequalities. This paper describes an innovative approach to helping English local agencies make the best use of available information in order to commission services that may reduce these inequalities. The authors describe the first 15 months of operation of a specialist national public health observatory for intellectual disability. The Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory (LDPHO) was established in April 2010. It is organisationally based within the North East Public Health Observatory. The authors provide a narrative account of the aims and achievements of the service. Since its inception the observatory has: made available to those involved in commissioning health and social care services, a wealth of information on the health needs of people with intellectual disabilities; identified specific improvements that could viably be made to increase the quality of future information; and begun working with local agencies to support them in making the best use of the available information.