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Out of sight, out of mind: why less-well off, middle-aged men don't get the support they need
- Author:
- SAMARITANS
- Publisher:
- Samaritans
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 35
- Place of publication:
- Ewell
This research, conducted by Revealing Reality for the Samaritans, aims to improve understanding of the type of support that may help less well-off, middle-aged men and reduce their risk of suicide. It also explores how community-based support services can be made more appealing and effective for them. It brings together the findings of a rapid evidence review and in-depth qualitative research with 16 less well-off middle-aged men across the UK and Ireland who had experience of feeling low or suicidal. The men were interviewed about the challenges they faced, the events which lead them to crisis point and what helped these men when they came into contact with support services. Key areas identified included: the opportunity to contribute, a feeling of inclusivity, the chance to work towards common goals, and peer support and feeling like they had shared experience with other people. (Edited publisher abstract)
Preventing prison suicide: perspectives from the inside
- Authors:
- HOWARD LEAGUE FOR PENAL REFORM, CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Howard League for Penal Reform
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 8
- Place of publication:
- London
Focuses on the views and lived experience of those with current or past experience of prison, examining what contributes to vulnerability and risk of suicide. In 2014 there was a marked increase in suicides in English and Welsh prisons, when 89 prisoners took their own lives. This was the highest number of suicides since 2007. In 2015 another 89 prisoners took their own lives. The number of suicides in prisons has remained high for two years, and by the end of March 2016 there had already been 27 self-inflicted deaths in prisons. The report highlights that staff shortages have increased the risk of suicide and that relationships between staff and prisoners are key as prisoners need to feel supported, cared for and able to confide in and trust staff. Drawing on findings from focus groups with both current and former prisoners, the briefing reports that prisoners described a culture where, on the whole, distress was not believed or responded to with compassion. In particular, arrival, being released and transferred were all cited as times when prisoners felt most vulnerable. Staff inexperience and lack of training around mental health were seen as a significant factor in increasing risk while mental health services in prison were mainly seen by prisoners as providers of medication. Conversely, wellbeing groups, the chaplaincy and imams, peer mentor schemes and listening schemes were perceived as helpful. The briefing argues that change needs to happen across the system to recognise the influence of the prison environment on people’s vulnerability. Prisons should be enabling environments, striving to be a psychologically informed environment with an emphasis on the quality of relationships. (Edited publisher abstract)
The day the voices stopped: a memoir of madness and hope
- Authors:
- STEELE Ken, BERMAN Claire
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 257p.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Steele died at 51, just after completing this highly personal but clear-headed account of his life as a schizophrenic. His parents' denial of his illness, which struck suddenly when he was 14, hampered them and him in seeking help and in understanding the dangers his condition might entail, and thus his experience of his illness was punctuated by several suicide attempts and violent attacks. There were also a few bright spots - the occasional knowledgeable, sympathetic doctor or positive and educational hospital programme, amid the despair and hopelessness that usually surrounded him. During the 32 years that interior voices overwhelmed his thoughts and actions, Steele moved back and forth across the country and in and out of hospitals and worked at odd jobs, including an unfortunate stint of prostitution. His account of the day the voices stopped will surely remain with everyone who reads it, and the whole book should inform and affect other victims of severe mental illness and their families.
Sunbathing in the rain: a cheerful book about depression
- Author:
- LEWIS Gwyneth
- Publisher:
- Flamingo
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 245p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book is a contribution to the debate about, and understanding of, depression. For we are living in what could well be called The Age Of Depression. More people than ever now experience the disease either directly or indirectly and many feel they have nowhere to turn. Lewis herself was one of those who felt alienated and totally alone at the height of her suffering. "Depression is a disease of the imagination. This means that the depressive suffers from a faulty mechanism in the way he or she pictures reality,” writes Lewis. “But the depressive remains the forger of his or her life.” By drawing on her own experiences of battling with her affliction, by highlighting ways of coping, ways of truth-telling, ways of thriving in a straight-forward, robust fashion, she retraces the steps of a journey that nearly killed her the first time around.
First year strategy for NIMHE: meeting the implementation challenge in mental health
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The NIMHE is a new organisation based within the modernisation agency of the Department of Health. Its aim is to provide the quality of life for people of all ages who experience mental distress. Working beyond the NHS, the MIME provides a gateway to learning and development, through the establishment of local centres and national programmes of work.
You don't know what it's like
- Author:
- CASTILLO Heather
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(2), October 2000, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Personality disorder has become synonymous with violence and inhumanity. But the experiences of people with the diagnosis tell a very different story.
Specialist Health and Resilient Environment (SHARE) service: evaluation report
- Authors:
- CALDERON Ana, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 79
- Place of publication:
- London
An evaluation of SHARE (Specialist Health and Resilient Environment), which provides support to young people (aged 11 to 17) at risk of becoming involved with statutory social care services due to emotional and behavioural problems. The main aim of the project was a reduction in the number of young people becoming engaged in statutory social care services due to parents or carers being unable to manage the presenting risk in relation to complex mental health issues. The service uses a multi-professional team, which includes advanced mental health practitioners, social workers and key workers and a new integrated duty system with a single assessment of need and single care pathway. It services supports young people and their family, and also aims to improve access to psychiatric and psychological services. The evaluation, carried out by researchers at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and York Consulting, examines the effectiveness of the project in providing young people with access to psychiatric and psychological services. Evidence from the evaluation suggests that SHARE was successful in reducing the numbers of children involved with services, including becoming a Child in Need and requiring short term breaks and becoming looked after (LAC) by the local authority. (Edited publisher abstract)
Delivering for mental health
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
A delivery plan for mental health in Scotland is presented. A functional approach is used that focuses on the key elements of services that need to be in place at each point in a journey of care so that clinicians, service users and carers can be clear about what needs to be delivered. In any service there should be a description of the purpose of the service, the target population, as well as arrangements for standardised joint assessment, referral, admission and discharge, and a range of interventions and therapies which meet the range of needs within the community. The document covers: improvement of the patient and carer experience of mental health services, how to respond better to depression, anxiety and stress, improving the physical health of people with mental illness, better management of long-term mental health conditions, early detection and intervention in self-harm and suicide prevention, better management of admission to, and discharge from, hospital, and child and adolescent mental health services.
Temperament or trauma? Users' views on the nature and treatment of personality disorder
- Author:
- CASTILLO Heather
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(2), October 2000, pp.53-58.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The controversial diagnosis of personality disorder has become almost exclusively associated with negative connotations of violence, aggression and anti-social behaviour. People with this diagnosis carry a heavy burden of social prejudice, rejection by statutory services, and even the threat of indefinite detention. The article describers a unique research study in which people diagnosed with personality disorder interviewed others to collect evidence of what it is like to have such a diagnosis, the actual problems people experience, and what they find helpful.
Ethnicity: an agenda for mental health
- Editors:
- BHUGRA Dinesh, VEENA Bahl
- Publishers:
- Gaskell, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 202p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets the scene for identifying and meeting the mental health needs of black and minority ethnic people. Includes chapters on: ethnicity; a national perspective on mental illness; cultural aspects of mental disorder in primary care; pathways into care; epidemiological factors in research with ethnic minorities; risk factors for psychosis in the UK African-Caribbean population; common mental disorders among African-Caribbean general practice attenders in Brixton, London; ethnicity and alcohol misuse; child psychiatry; cross cultural approaches to dementia and depression in older adults; suicide; postnatal depression in Japanese women who have given birth in England; forensic psychiatry; joint working; user views of mental health services; NHS services for black patients; alternatives to institutional psychiatry; and the role of general practitioners.