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Doing it for themselves
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2007, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Expert Patients Programme has been adapted for mental health services. The course, available nationally, runs over seven weeks and aims to help those with mental health problems self-manage their condition.
Present dangers
- Author:
- McNAMARA Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.10.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at why disabled people are vulnerable to depression and asks whether social care workers should be trained to spot it.
Common mental disorders: a bio-social model
- Authors:
- GOLDBERG David, HUXLEY Peter
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 210p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Combines insights from social psychiatry with recent findings in biological psychiatry and provides a model for common mental disorders. The physical processes which underlie states of depression and anxiety are described, together with the environmental factors that effect these processes. Concludes by discussing the implications of recent findings both for the future pattern of services and for training needs of mental health professionals.
Preventing and responding to depression, self-harm, and suicide in older people living in long term care settings: a systematic review
- Authors:
- GLEESON Helen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 23(11), 2019, pp.1467-1477.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Objective: The well documented demographic shift to an aging population means that more people will in future be in need of long term residential care. Previous research has reported an increased risk of mental health issues and suicidal ideation among older people living in residential care settings. However, there is little information on the actual prevalence of depression, self-harm, and suicidal behavior in this population, how it is measured and how care homes respond to these issues. Method: This systematic review of international literature addressed three research questions relating to; the prevalence of mental health problems in this population; how they are identified and; how care homes try to prevent or respond to mental health issues. Results: Findings showed higher reported rates of depression and suicidal behavior in care home residents compared to matched age groups in the community, variation in the use of standardised measures across studies and, interventions almost exclusively focused on increasing staff knowledge about mental health but with an absence of involvement of older people themselves in these programmes. Conclusion: The research discusses the implications of these findings in the context of addressing mental health difficulties experienced by older people in residential care and future research in this area. (Edited publisher abstract)
Do clinicians and clinical researchers do enough to foster social inclusion?
- Author:
- HOLTTUM Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 19(1), 2015, pp.5-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to raise questions about the social issues involved in mental and physical health. It highlights how, even where social issues are evident, clinicians and clinical researchers often focus mainly on individual people and what has gone wrong with them. This has the effect of making it less likely that social exclusion and adversity will be taken into account or that clinicians will help to change these. Design/methodology/approach: Three journal papers are summarised. The first one reports an attempt to test whether depression is a result of people feeling defeated and trapped. The second paper reports the results of analysing medical writing about domestic abuse. The third paper discusses the need for trainee clinicians to be made more aware of social conditions that affect people's lives. Findings: It does appear that people who feel defeated and trapped are more likely to become depressed. However, the life circumstances that lead to feeling trapped need more attention. Medical writing about domestic abuse may need to incorporate the broader context so that it is not just seen as a “women's problem”. It may be worth training clinicians about social conditions and how they might help to change them. Originality/value: These papers highlight important links between social exclusion and mental and physical health. There is a key role for clinicians and clinical researchers to be more part of the solution where they sometimes unwittingly help maintain the problems. (Publisher abstract)
Grouchy Old Men? Promoting older men's mental health and emotional well being
- Author:
- WILLIAMSON Toby
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 15(4), 2011, pp.164-176.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper provides an overview of key issues involved in older men's mental health and well-being, focusing on depression and suicide. It examines key mental health policy documents to see how far they address the mental health and well-being of older men. The paper goes on to describe a 2-year service improvement project called Grouchy Old Men? that finished in 2010. The project aimed to improve the mental health and well-being of older men, particularly those who were isolated and at risk of depression and suicide. To do this, the project worked collaboratively with individuals and organisations with an active issue in the issue. It used an organisational development approach based upon the concept of ‘change agent’ whereby the project aimed to act as a catalyst for change elsewhere. It did this through gathering and disseminating examples of good practice and by piloting a training module to raise awareness about the mental health of older men. An internal evaluation carried out at the end of the project and feedback from people who had participated in the training workshop indicated that the project had made a very positive impact.
A request for help
- Author:
- STREET Cathy
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 106, June 2010, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
The two-year QUEST study was undertaken by the charity Rethink, the Institute of Psychiatry and Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust (PCT), and informed by a UK wide survey of school nurses which explored their training needs. QUEST aimed to develop a multifaceted training resource about depression for school nurses in secondary schools and to examine how the intervention could enhance their knowledge and skills. In QUEST, groups of school nurses from 13 PCTs in London were offered a full day of training with a half day top up session with an experienced trainer in child and adolescent mental health and input from a young service user, using materials developed in consultation with young people and organisations working in the field. The impact of the training was analysed using a range of research tools. Findings from the study indicated that the training was successful in enhancing the knowledge of participants and increasing the nurses' professional confidence to work with young people with depression, that school nurses have limited time available to support pupils and many remain quite isolated from their local specialist child and adolescent mental health services, that there is a need to offer support and training about children and young people's mental health to staff in schools to enable early intervention and accessible mental health support, and that school nurses have a key role to play.
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.
Preventing and responding to depression, self-harm, and suicide in older people living in long term care settings: a systematic review
- Authors:
- GLEESON Helen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, early cite 4 November 2018,
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Objective: The well documented demographic shift to an ageing population means that more people will in future be in need of long term residential care. Previous research has reported an increased risk of mental health issues and suicidal ideation among older people living in residential care settings. However, there is little information on the actual prevalence of depression, self-harm, and suicidal behaviour in this population, how it is measured and how care homes respond to these issues. Method: This systematic review of international literature addressed three research questions relating to; the prevalence of mental health problems in this population; how they are identified and; how care homes try to prevent or respond to mental health issues. Results: Findings showed higher reported rates of depression and suicidal behaviour in care home residents compared to matched age groups in the community, variation in the use of standardised measures across studies and, interventions almost exclusively focused on increasing staff knowledge about mental health but with an absence of involvement of older people themselves in these programmes. Conclusion: Discuses the implications of these findings in the context of addressing mental health difficulties experienced by older people in residential care and future research in this area. (Edited publisher abstract)
Support workers’ mental health knowledge and confidence in relation to exposure, experience, work setting and training
- Authors:
- KILANSKA Ann, PRIEST Helena M.
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 8(4), 2014, pp.260-267.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: In the context of improved UK training programmes, this paper explores the factors that can predict support workers’ knowledge and confidence in recognising mental health problems in service users with intellectual disabilities. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 80 support workers (40 residential and 40 community-based) completed a questionnaire about their length of work experience, exposure to service users with additional mental health needs, training, general and specific mental health knowledge, and confidence in working with mental health issues. It was hypothesised that length of work experience, extent of training, and level of exposure would predict knowledge about mental health problems, and also predict confidence in working with people with mental health problems. It was further predicted that residential support workers would be more knowledgeable and confident than community workers. Findings: Results showed that level of exposure could predict knowledge about schizophrenia, but not about depression, anxiety, or dementia, while length of experience could predict overall mental health knowledge and confidence. Extent of training could only predict knowledge about anxiety, and work setting (residential or community) had no effect to on knowledge or confidence. Implications for practice and training are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)