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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)
Strategies for encouraging and maintaining hope among people living with serious mental illness
- Authors:
- DARLINGTON Yvonne, BLAND Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 52(3), September 1999, pp.17-23.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reports part of the results of a study of hope in mental illness. It focuses on the mental health worker's role in fostering and maintaining a sense of hope in people with serious mental illness. Approaches identified include: working within the client's frame of reference, focusing on the client's strengths, acknowledging small gains, making links to past gains, being genuine, helping clients to understand their illness, understanding the importance of achievement and holding on to hope when the client has none.
Best Interests: guidance on determining the best interests of adults who lack the capacity to make a decision (or decisions) for themselves (England and Wales)
- Author:
- JOYCE Theresa
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance has been written in order to give additional information and support to people who may have to participate in making decisions on behalf of adults who lack the capacity to do so for themselves. This includes staff working in health or social care (such as doctors, nurses, dentists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, residential and care home managers, care staff, support workers) and carers, families and advocates.
Leeds united
- Authors:
- WALKER Dawn, HEXT Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.11.01, 2001, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on an inter-agency initiative in Leeds which has seen social workers trained to provide therapeutic services in child and family work.
Attachment theory and post-traumatic stress disorder
- Author:
- SABLE Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Analytic Social Work, 2(4), 1995, pp.89-109.
Attachment theory is applied to understanding and treatment of the anxiety condition of post-traumatic stress disorder in adults. The secure base of a therapeutic relationship provides an opportunity to review experiences relevant to current distress in order to affirm emotional reactions and come to terms with distressing events. Implications for prevention are discussed.
Managing care in the community: analysis of a training workshop
- Authors:
- FOSTER Angela, GRESPI Lorenzo
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 8(2), 1994, pp.169-183.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Managing mental illness in the community is an anxiety provoking business. Yet the legislative emphasis on business management and rapid re-structuring both creates anxiety in workers and carers and appears to devalue those traditional psychotherapeutic skills which facilitate the containment of anxiety. Anxieties that are put out of mind (not contained) have damaging and dangerous consequences for carers, users, and members of the public. Describes a ten-week workshop with the task of providing a safe, constructive setting where the anxieties generated by community care of the adult mentally ill could be identified, addressed and thought about.