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Leading from the front: putting the people back into people management
- Author:
- LOCKETT Helen
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 6(3), September 2010, pp.48-52.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, are common in the working population. This article suggests that every organisation should have a comprehensive strategy that promotes mental health, provides effective return to work support and proactively responds to mental ill health in the workplace at an early stage. The article describes the scale of the issue and draws on leadership research to explore how this could be used in the workplace to build a culture able to respond to and manage mental health effectively at work. It outlines how the Centre for Mental Health has addressed some of these issues by working with the Australian charity, beyondblue: the national depression initiative. The Centre has made beyondblue's highly successful National Workplace Programme available in the UK in order to build management competencies so that managers have the skills and knowledge to act.
Mental health care: from problems to solutions; an NHS perspective
- Author:
- MOORE Wendy
- Publisher:
- National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 20p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Research paper presenting the findings of a nationwide survey of senior NHS managers, revealing the pressures within mental health services, including pressures on resources, beds, staff, and on patients. Identifies three key action points which those in the service believe would significantly ease the difficulties.
Managing mental health: research into the management of mental health in the workplace and the information and guidance available to managers
- Author:
- DIFFLEY Ceri
- Publisher:
- The Work Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report reveals that mental health problems in the workplace are far greater than previously realised, and that many line-managers are ill-equipped to deal with them. To address this issue, mind out for mental health, the Department of Health's anti-stigma campaign, has also launched 'The Line Managers' Resource Pack - a practical guide to managing and supporting mental health in the workplace'.
Fighting for support
- Author:
- WHITE Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 30.12.98, 1998, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Mental health nurses may expect to encounter violent behaviour, but should they also have to fight for managerial support when they are attacked?. Reports on the issues.
Management of imminent violence: clinical practice guidelines to support mental health services
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS. Research Unit
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 111p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report presenting the findings of a comprehensive and systematic review of research into the management of violence in clinical settings. Sets guidelines for clinical practice to be implemented in hospitals and psychiatric units throughout the UK.
Rebuilding for safety
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.11.96, 1996, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Training has been identified in a new report as the foundation stone on which mental health services must be built. Reports on a blueprint for the future and tests professional reactions.
A special place for people in a special state of being: a conference report on crisis care in mental health
- Author:
- LINDOW Vivien
- Publisher:
- Bristol Survivor's Network
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Papers from a day organised by Bristol Survivors' Network, focusing in particular on a safe place to go during a 'mental health crisis'. Includes papers looking at the experience of mental health crisis, preventing a crisis, the behaviour and attitudes of mental health workers towards people experiencing a crisis, and hospitals and other existing crisis services. Other papers look at places to go that are not hospitals, examining: what is needed in a crisis house; the emotional atmosphere of a crisis house; medication; management arrangements; what kind of skills and support should be available; and issues about access to a safe house.
Values into action: tools for development and training
- Author:
- PAYNE Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Practice and Staff Development, 4(2), January 1995, pp.57-80.
- Publisher:
- PEPAR Publications
Summarises a number of packages that have a common aim of establishing a sound value base for services, particularly for older people and adults with learning difficulties and mental health problems.
Troubled youth in treatment homes: a handbook of therapeutic foster care
- Editors:
- MEADOWCROFT Pamela, TROUT Barbara A.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 213p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Looks at models of care for mentally and emotionally disturbed children and teenagers, and in particular at therapeutic foster care. Includes chapters on organisation and staffing; providing services to children in such care; and servicing their families.
The relationship between self-destructive behaviour and nursing home environment
- Authors:
- LOW L-F, DRAPER B., BRODATY H.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 8(1), January 2004, pp.29-33.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between self-destructive behaviour and nursing home environment. We performed a cross-sectional study comprising 647 residents in 11 nursing homes in Sydney, Australia using the Harmful Behaviours Scale (HBS), Abbreviated Mental Test Scale and the Resident Classification Index. The Directors of Nursing completed a questionnaire that rated physical design, staff and resident characteristics and demographics were obtained from nursing home records. On regression analysis a greater number of design features for frail and residents with dementia in general, and increased security measures were associated with greater HBS total score and risk-taking and passive self-harm subscales. A residential environment in which the residents were more functionally dependent and more likely to be in a shared room, managerial policies less geared towards managing difficult behaviour and less staff availability and training were associated with the 'uncooperativeness' factor. There were no significant predictors of the other two factors. The relationship between nursing home environment and self-destructive behaviours and the environment is complex and there needs to be an individualized approach to placement.