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A toolkit for mental health promotion in the workplace: Trent mental health in the workplace project
- Author:
- HUGHES Sarah
- Publisher:
- Mentality
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Toolkit provides a framework for developing a mental health promotion policy in the workplace. The Toolkit makes the case for investment, information on what works and some practical examples of ways forward. The Toolkit has been developed to assist organisations to: promote mental health in the workplace; understand what may be affecting their employees' mental health; offer assistance to employees experiencing mental health problems; and promote a positive approach to employing people with mental health problems.
Double the drama
- Author:
- MILLER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.12.02, 2002, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Profiles an innovative drama workshop which helps staff empathise with their clients who both misuse drugs and have mental health problems. It was one of the winners of the recent Community Care awards.
Redressing the imbalance
- Author:
- DOUBLE Duncan B.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2002, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Argues that if there is to be a meaningful challenge to the biomedical model in mental health services it needs to be supported by training and support for frontline staff.
Professional dilemma
- Author:
- SMITH Simon Lawton
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.4.02, 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at moves to improve the status and professionalism of community mental health support workers. Asks whether this could undermine their relationship with clients.
How to ensure your service is responsive to the needs of carers: a guide and action planning tool for managers and staff working in the health service in Newcastle
- Author:
- NEWCASTLE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE. Newcastle Carers project
- Publisher:
- Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service. Newcastle Carers Project
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This guide and action planning tool aims to assist staff working in the health service to implement carer related elements in various government guidance. This includes 'Caring for carers', 'National framework for mental health', 'National framework for older people', NHS plan 2001 and 'Valuing people'.
Work satisfaction, stress, quality of care and morale of older people in a nursing home
- Authors:
- REDFERN Sally, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 10(6), November 2002, pp.512-517.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aim in this study, which was carried out in one nursing home for older people, was to determine the feasibility of working with care workers and very frail service users to investigate links between the levels of work satisfaction and stress of the staff, and the quality of care and morale of the residents. The findings revealed a staff group with a fairly high level of job dissatisfaction and stress, who were, nevertheless, very committed to the nursing home. The morale of the residents was good although the residents rated the home atmosphere lower than the staff did.
National care standards: care homes for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Outlines the national care standards for mental health problems in Scotland. Contents: before moving in, standards one to six; settling in, standards seven to eleven; day to day life, standards twelve to eighteen; choosing to leave or move on, standard nineteen.
Modernising the workhorse: getting the best from service users
- Author:
- SNOW Rose
- Journal article citation:
- MCC Building Knowledge for Integrated Care, 10(4), August 2002, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
It is argued that discriminatory attitudes to (ex) service users may threaten modernisation as they limit and shrink the workhorse and prevent committed workers form succeeding. This article summarises the report of the first National Conference of Survivor Workers which gives senior managers the knowledge needed to increase the size and capability of the workhorse.
Young people's secure units face staff and services problems survey finds
- Author:
- PEARCE Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.02, 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the findings of a Community Care Changing Minds survey which found a lack of co-operation between services for young people in secure accommodation.
A videotape-based training method for improving the detection of depression in residents of long-term care facilities
- Authors:
- WOOD Stacey, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 42(1), February 2002, pp.114-121.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article reviews the effectiveness of a new training program for improving nursing staffs' detection of depression within long-term care facilities. The course was designed to increase recognition of the Minimal Data Set (MDS) Mood Trigger items, to be brief, and to rely on images rather than didactics. This study used a delayed intervention design. Twenty nurses from two facilities participated in all four sessions of the study. Staff exposed to the intervention (Site 1) improved significantly in their ability to detect mood symptoms in videotaped patients after completing the training course compared with those exposed to the delayed intervention (Site 2). Improvement in detection skills at Site 2 following the training confirmed the intervention's utility. The improvement was demonstrated across levels of staff (licensed and unlicensed). Maintenance of skills was demonstrated at the 4-month follow-up. Staff successfully improved knowledge and skill of MDS mood triggers. This method may lend itself to other MDS domains.