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Working with mental illness: a community-based approach
- Author:
- TILBURY Derek
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 152p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Focusing on fundamentals of practice involving mental illness and ongoing work based in the community, this book looks at the impact good social work can have on the quality of life of sufferers, their families and carers. It examines attitudes to what constitutes mental health and mental illness and perceptions of psychiatric services, and practice issues such as the dynamics and outcomes of decisions about whether a client has a mental illness, face-to-face transactions between a person with mental illness and the social worker, the social worker's activities on behalf of a client or sufferer, including securing an appropriate environment and establishing the place of the sufferer within it by securing a routine, and work with families affected.
A new dawn: the changing face of mental health services in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Author:
- MAGLAJLIC Reima Ana
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(12), August 2001, pp.401-404.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Bosnia and Herzegovina is gradually pulling itself back from the destruction of the 1992-1996 war. To replace the destroyed mental hospitals the World Bank provided funding for a network of community mental health centres across the country. Educational initiatives have been introduced to provide staff - including, importantly, nurses and social workers - with the necessary training and skills to work in the community setting.
The Clubhouse Model of community support for adults with mental illness: an emerging opportunity for social work education
- Authors:
- JACKSON Robert L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Education, 32(2), Summer 1996, pp.173-180.
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
The Clubhouse Model of community support is enjoying renewed interest among American social workers and social work educators concerned with alternatives to traditional forms of community mental health treatment and rehabilitation. Describes the model and its underlying congruence with social work theory and practice. Findings of the National Task Analysis Study of Social Work Practice are presented that suggest an increasingly important role for social workers and social work educators in the continued growth of this practice model.
Resilience, mental health and Assertive Community Treatment
- Authors:
- HURLEY Dermot J., O’REILLY Richard L.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 15(6), 2017, pp.730-748.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Clinicians try to promote resilience by building an effective therapeutic relationship with their clients. Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an established approach for providing services to individuals with severe mental illness who have not fared well in the regular mental health system. This work underscores the importance of a resilient therapeutic relationship in preventing relapse and assuring adherence to therapeutic outcomes. Persistent psychiatric illness takes a toll on the resilience of the client, while the relationship work takes a toll on the resilience of the clinician. This article explores the concept of relational resilience between clinician and client as a dynamic process of shared success and failure, progress and regression through cycles of crisis, stabilisation, relapse, and partial recovery. This is a qualitative study exploring how ACT clinicians promote and sustain resilience and is based on interviews with social workers, nurses, occupational and recreational therapists, coordinators, and psychiatrists. (Publisher abstract)
Treading a fine line
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.5.99, 1999, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Finds out how social worker Diane Bradbury Harris is coping with a mentally ill person who wants to live independently but is refusing to maintain contact with their consultant, take their medication or co-operate in the care planning process can really benefit from independent living.
A will to live
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.4.99, 1999, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A social workers talks to the author about the dilemma she faced when she tried to find an alternative to sectioning a man with a young family who had tried the hang himself, and was intent on further suicide attempts.
Healthcare professionals to child and adolescent mental health professionals: developing a generic profession
- Author:
- DUNCAN John
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 8(2), June 2003, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Describes the experience in Lanarkshire of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) workforce development and the crucial role played by generic child and adolescent mental health clinicians. The article describes how the service has continued to develop despite national shortages of specialist child mental health professionals in all disciplines. Focuses on the emergence of a new generic professional group whose backgrounds include specialist nursing, occupational therapy and social work.
Lines of resistance: exploring professionals' views of compulsory community supervision
- Authors:
- PINFOLD Vanessa, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 11(2), April 2002, pp.117-190.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Proposals to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 include the introduction of powers to compulsorily treat patients living in the community. This study assesses mental health professionals' attitudes towards supervised discharge orders (SDOs) and guardianship. Results found clear differences in professional attitudes towards these measures, and resistance to their use was based upon both pragmatic decision-making and philosophical objections. In general, social care professionals hold more positive views of both SDOs and Guardianship than health care professionals. All professional groups rate Guardianship, which emphasises patient welfare, more highly than SDOs, and psychiatrists are most in favour of introducing additional powers to enforce medication compliance in the community. Resistance to compulsory community supervision appears to be connected to the absence of training and direct experience of the powers. Negative attitudes towards mental health legislation are shared between colleagues.
Model behaviour
- Author:
- JAMES Adam
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 21.9.00, 2000, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
A group of nurses who believe the medical model of treatment is failing people with mental illness have helped develop an innovative home treatment service for third client group.
'Eccentric' - or a danger to health?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.6.99, 1999, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Talks to a social worker, Roger Parke, who had to address the problem of twin brothers whose hoarding of rubbish endangered their health.