Looks at a small study into first-episode psychosis in younger adults that highlights the importance of combining early diagnosis with sensitive information and services. The research, from Gloucestershre Partnership NHS Trust, used a mixture of postal questionnaires and face-to-face interviews with 23 service users, 10 carers and 15 GPs.
Looks at a small study into first-episode psychosis in younger adults that highlights the importance of combining early diagnosis with sensitive information and services. The research, from Gloucestershre Partnership NHS Trust, used a mixture of postal questionnaires and face-to-face interviews with 23 service users, 10 carers and 15 GPs.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, parents, treatment, therapy and treatment, user views, young people, access to services, general practitioners;
Reports on the Behaviour Resource Service which offers severely damaged young people in Southampton an alternative to the prospect of life in a psychiatric hospital or years of residential care. The service is a child and adolescent mental health innovations project originally funded by the Department of Health with matching local funding.
Reports on the Behaviour Resource Service which offers severely damaged young people in Southampton an alternative to the prospect of life in a psychiatric hospital or years of residential care. The service is a child and adolescent mental health innovations project originally funded by the Department of Health with matching local funding.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, intervention, mental health problems, mental health services, multidisciplinary services, treatment, therapy and treatment, young people, challenging behaviour, children;
About three per cent of people experience a psychotic episode, which makes it more common than diabetes . Chances are a first experience will happen to young people aged between 16 and 25. The confusion and distress about what is happening to them could even prove fatal. Between 10 and 15 per cent of people with psychosis commit suicide, two-thirds of them within five years of the first episode. Delays in engaging with services, averaging between one and two years, almost inevitably increase the risk of harm and can result in prolonged hospitalisation and thus higher costs. Delays can also contribute to unemployment, low self-esteem and loss of accommodation which, in turn, lead to a life spent in and around the revolving door of repeated relapse.
About three per cent of people experience a psychotic episode, which makes it more common than diabetes . Chances are a first experience will happen to young people aged between 16 and 25. The confusion and distress about what is happening to them could even prove fatal. Between 10 and 15 per cent of people with psychosis commit suicide, two-thirds of them within five years of the first episode. Delays in engaging with services, averaging between one and two years, almost inevitably increase the risk of harm and can result in prolonged hospitalisation and thus higher costs. Delays can also contribute to unemployment, low self-esteem and loss of accommodation which, in turn, lead to a life spent in and around the revolving door of repeated relapse.
Subject terms:
keyworkers, mental health problems, mental health services, severe mental health problems, social care provision, suicide, treatment, therapy and treatment, young people;
Consistency, an essential prop to achieving potential, is all too often an alien concept for looked-after children. And this is especially the case for those young people who have social, emotional and behavioural problems, and whose needs cannot be met effectively by existing foster carers. It was to tackle these problems that Wirral social services, in north west England, adopted therapeutic fostering - a targeted service offered in partnership with the child and adolescent mental health service (Camhs) team.
Consistency, an essential prop to achieving potential, is all too often an alien concept for looked-after children. And this is especially the case for those young people who have social, emotional and behavioural problems, and whose needs cannot be met effectively by existing foster carers. It was to tackle these problems that Wirral social services, in north west England, adopted therapeutic fostering - a targeted service offered in partnership with the child and adolescent mental health service (Camhs) team.
Subject terms:
looked after children, mental health problems, social services, therapies, therapy and treatment, autistic spectrum conditions, carers, child and adolescent mental health services, children, community mental health services, foster care, foster carers;