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Therapeutic residential care for children and youth: a consensus statement of the International Work Group on Therapeutic Residential Care
- Authors:
- WHITTAKER James K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 33(2), 2016, pp.89-106.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Sets out the principles and values that should underpin therapeutic residential care. This consensus statement adopts, as a useful starting point, Whittaker, Del Valle, & Holmes’ definition of therapeutic residential care, which is understood to involve ‘the planful use of a purposefully constructed, multi-dimensional living environment designed to enhance or provide treatment, education, socialization, support, and protection to children and youth with identified mental health or behavioral needs in partnership with their families and in collaboration with a full spectrum of community-based formal and informal helping resources.’ The principles include: ‘primum non nocere’ (first, do no harm), which entails that ‘Safety First’ should be the guiding principle in the design and implementation of all TRC programmes; a hallmark of TRC programmes—in whatever particular cultural expression they assume—is to strive constantly to forge and maintain strong and vital family linkages; services are fully anchored in the communities, cultures, and web of social relationships that define and inform the children and families we serve; TRC is at its core informed by a culture that stresses learning through living and where the heart of teaching occurs in a series of deeply personal, human relationships; the ultimate epistemological goal for therapeutic residential care is the identification of a group of evidence-based models or strategies for practice that are effective in achieving desired outcomes for youth and families, replicable from one site to another, and scalable. (Edited publisher abstract)
Clubbing around the Wight
- Authors:
- COLE Andrew, NICHOLLS Ralph
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(1), September 1999, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article describes the Isle of Wight's unique travelling memory club for older people with organic mental illness.
Strategies for helping young adults with severe mental disorders
- Author:
- LURIE Abraham
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 25(3), 1997, pp.37-48.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Severe mental illness is defined in terms of psychosocial development and attention is given to socio-economic forces in these patients' lives. The difficulties faced by young, severely mentally ill people in the US is discussed, and data regarding prevalence and treatment strategies are outlined with implications for individual and family therapy modalities.
A therapeutic group in the community for the elderly with functional psychiatric illnesses
- Authors:
- PROCTER Elizabeth Ann, ALWAR Lutchmee
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(1), January 1995, pp.33-36.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes a closed therapeutic group run in a community setting for the elderly with functional psychiatric illnesses. The aim of the group was to promote mental health and self-confidence and to reduce psychiatric morbidity. Suggests that such groups may be an effective means both of improving mental health and of utilizing limited health service resources, and warrant further research.
Travelling companions
- Author:
- PRANCE Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 3.2.93, 1993, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on a movement to move from administrative and brokerage-centred care management models in the U.S., and the need to develop long-term therapeutic relationships between care managers and clients, building on client strengths, and stressing interdependence.
Experiencing psychiatry: user's views of services
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anne, PILGRIM David, LACEY Ron
- Publisher:
- MacMillan/MIND
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 205p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes mainstream mental health services through the experiences and views of people who have used them. In includes views on: community living; professional and other staff; and treatment (including drug therapy).
Needs assessment for persons with severe mental illness: what services are needed for successful community living?
- Authors:
- FORD Janet, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 28(6), December 1992, pp.491-503.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Presents the results of a survey of 90 community mental health agency case managers in Ohio, which assessed community support and residential needs of over 1400 of their clients. Medication monitoring and therapy were rated high priority needs, and psychosocial treatment, day and vocational activities also ranked high. Survey responses regarding residential services indicated a need for more supported and supervised options.
An evaluation of community-based psychiatric care for people with treated long-term mental illness
- Authors:
- WILKINSON Greg, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 167, July 1995, pp.26-37.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The Buckingham Mental Health Service aimed to provide general practitioner based and comprehensive domiciliary care for people with long-term mental illness. Reports on an evaluation of this integrated, multidisciplinary, community-based care for a cohort of people with treated long term mental illness over two years in a field set in a semi-rural setting. Concludes that this form of service provision is viable in a semi-rural setting: patients receiving pharmaco-therapy and regular psycho-social treatments remained relatively stable on clinical and social measures over two years.
Physiotherapy in mental health: a practical approach
- Authors:
- EVERETT Tina, DENNIS Maureen, RICKETTS Eirian
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 435p.,tables,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Challenges the artificial divide between mind and body and suggests that the physiotherapist has a role to play in promoting mental health. Looks at psychiatric illnesses and models of mental disorder and goes on to look at practical ways physiotherapy can help. Part 3 looks at physiotherapy in specific areas such as: child psychiatry; eating disorders; substance misuse; post traumatic stress disorder; forensic psychiatry; dementia; and mental illness in old age.
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.