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Pressure for change
- Author:
- SNELL Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.7.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers the implications of a Sainsbury Centre report which calls for better joint work between health authorities and social services departments in the area of mental health.
Supplementary credit approval for the development of social care services for people with a mental illness 1998/99
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Care management study: report on national data; mapping and evaluation of care management arrangements for older people and those with mental health problems
- Authors:
- CHALLIS David, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 74p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report presenting the findings from part of a national survey of care management arrangements. Forms part of a three-phase programme of research aiming to provide a mapping and evaluation of care management arrangements for older people and people with mental health problems.
Out of the benefit trap
- Author:
- LLORENTE Carmen
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 128, October 1998, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
Describes a pioneering initiative in west London that uses 'social firms' to help people with mental health problems move towards conventional employment.
Direct payments
- Author:
- IRISH Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Breakthrough, 2(3), 1998, pp.27-32.
This article is based on a recent interview with a mental health survivor currently benefiting from the Direct Payments Act 1996, with the support of a county-based Independent Advocacy project. Gives an account of her own personal experience.
Children in the criminal justice and secure care systems: how their mental health needs are met
- Authors:
- KURTZ Zarrina, THORNES Rosemary, BAILEY Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 21(5), October 1998, pp.543-553.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
Describes a study of the perceptions among relevant service providers of the mental health needs of young people considered for secure placement. The findings confirm that highly disturbed young people, who may be a danger to themselves and others, may present to a wide range of services, and that their mental health needs are neither well recognised, widely understood, nor adequately met. Availability of appropriate levels and types of expertise and resource is patchy and strictly limited, within secure settings and in local community services across all agencies.
Implementing adult protection policies in Kent and East Sussex
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, STEIN June
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 27(3), July 1998, pp.371-396.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Reports on the extent and nature of adult protection cases dealt with by two social services departments during a twelve month period in 1995-6, within the framework of newly revised generic policies on abuse of vulnerable adults. The two counties varied in the level of reporting documented and in the number of cases logged for individuals who fall within the main four groups of 'vulnerable adults' covered by the policies. Arguments for consistent reporting are set out and the tension which exists between formal and informal approaches to the subsequent investigation of abuse discussed with reference to American vulnerable adult statutes.
The Taps project 40: quality of care provisions for the elderly mentally ill - traditional Vs alternative facilities
- Authors:
- WILLIS Walter, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13(4), April 1998, pp.225-234.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article evaluates some aspects of care reprovision for psychogeriatric patients. Seven hospital wards are compared with four community settings, established as part of the reprovision programme for Friern Hospital in London. Each facility was assessed for policy and programme, social climate and physical characteristics; staff attitudes in regard to their tasks, training needs and job satisfaction were also explored.
Need to know
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.2.98, 1998, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a Hertfordshire initiative that is applying the area child protection committee model to mental health risk management.
From rhetoric to reality: perspectives of mental health users on the development of a user forum in South and East Belfast
- Authors:
- McCULLOUGH Billy, HASSON Felicity
- Journal article citation:
- Breakthrough, 2(3), 1998, pp.5-14.
The concept of empowerment for users of mental health services is regularly debated. This article seeks to evaluate the developing process and difficulties of a user forum set up in South and East Belfast based on collaborative arrangements between statutory Social Services and a voluntary agency, the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health (NIAMH). The research focuses specifically on the views of users through a series of interviews with already established groups and individuals from within the community and hospital.