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Involving service users in training
- Author:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Journal article citation:
- Care the Journal of Practice and Development, 7(2), May 1999, pp.5-11.
- Publisher:
- Pepar
This article presents an exhortation to managers, trainers and educators in mental health services to enable service user involvement to become part of the mainstream of all training and staff development programmes.
Attitudes of mental health professionals to co-morbidity between mental health problems and substance misuse
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Kelwyn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(6), December 1999, pp.605-613.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health professionals are required to address the increasing problem of alcohol and substance misuse amongst the mentally ill (co-morbidity) at a time when services for this population are under review. Describes a survey of mental health professionals in Bristol to assess attitudes towards co-morbidity and professional roles. The findings argue for a re-appraisal of the way in which multi-disciplinary teams are trained to deal with the problems of alcohol and drug misuse.
A critical appraisal of violent incident measures
- Author:
- BOWERS Len
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(4), August 1999, pp.339-349.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Instrumentation for the recording of violence incidents in psychiatric wards for the purpose of research remain rudimentary and underdeveloped. This article provides a critical review of the currently available research tools. All have potentially fatal handicaps which have not been identified in previous reviews, the most serious of which is the conflation of severity of a violent incident with the outcome in terms of injury.
Assertive outreach: implications for the development of the model in the United Kingdom
- Authors:
- HEMMING Mark, MORGAN Steve, O'HALLORAN Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(2), April 1999, pp.141-147.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The model of assertive outreach is currently being widely debated in the United Kingdom, with many services keen to include this model of practice within current mental health services frameworks. This article defines assertive outreach services, reviews evidence and identifies critical elements in services provision. Argues that positive outcomes will be dependent on these critical elements being included in the development of assertive outreach services.
Psychoeducation
- Author:
- FADDEN Grainne
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, March 1999, p.16.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Looks at a West Midlands initiative to train mental health professionals to work in effective partnership with users and their families.
Mental health care failure in England
- Authors:
- BURNS Tom, RIEBE Stefan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174, March 1999, pp.191-192.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The past few years have seen mental health services in England subjected to an unprecedented barrage of criticism. This article responds to this criticism from the point of view of psychiatry.
Face to face with fear
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.1.99, 1999, pp.18-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Following the killing of Wandsworth social worker Jenny Morrison last year, risk assessment procedures are being re-examined and low level violence is being taken more seriously. Examines some of the questions raised by this latest tragedy.
Clinical management of women who self-wound: a survey of mental health professionals' preferred strategies
- Authors:
- HUBAND Nick, TANTAM Digby
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(5), October 1999, pp.473-487.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This study aimed to evaluate professional opinion on various strategies for the clinical management of self-wounding in female patients. The strategies of maintaining regular discussion amongst involved staff and of encouraging the client to ventilate unexpressed feelings were seen as the most helpful, with medication and hospital admission regarded as unhelpful.
Sharing and caring
- Author:
- WHITE Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.7.99, 1999, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A pilot project has been set up in Warwickshire to deal with social care clients who may pose a threat to members of the public. Examines how an inter-agency protocol will share information and ideas to enable all agencies to take the right course of action.
Comparing practice patterns of consumer and non-consumer mental health service providers
- Authors:
- PAULSON Robert, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 35(3), June 1999, pp.251-269.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Compares the practice patterns of consumer and non-consumer providers of assertive community treatment in the United States using both quantitative and qualitative data collected as part of a randomised controlled trial.