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In recovery: the making of mental health policy
- Author:
- JACOBSON Nora
- Publisher:
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 208p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Nashville, TN
For hundreds of years, people diagnosed with mental illness were thought to be hopeless cases, destined to suffer inevitable deterioration. Beginning in the early 1990s, however, providers and policymakers in mental health systems came to promote recovery as their goal. But what does recovery truly mean? Traditionally, recovery was defined as symptom abatement or a return to a normal state of health, but as activists, mental health professionals, and policymakers sought to develop “recovery-oriented” systems, other meanings emerged. This analysis describes the complexes of ideas that have defined recovery in various contexts over time. The first meaning, “recovery-as-evidence,” involves the theories, statistics, therapies, legislation, and myriad other factors that constituted the first one hundred years of mental health services provision in the United States. “Recovery-as-experience” brought the voices of patients into the conversation, while “recovery-as-ideology” drew on both recovery-as-evidence and recovery-as-experience to rally support for specific approaches and service-delivery models. This in turn became the basis for “recovery-as-policy,” which developed as assorted representative bodies, such as commissions and task forces, planned reforms of the mental health system. Finally, “recovery-as-politics” emerged as reformers confronted harsh economic realities and entrenched ideas about evidence, experience, and ideology.
Card carriers
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.7.95, 1995, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Increasing numbers of people with mental health problems are experiencing adverse side effects from prescribed drugs. Reports on the practice implications of a new yellow card scheme to give users a voice.
Mental illness: policies for prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and care
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health and Social Security. Mental Health Division
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security
- Publication year:
- 1983
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Bulimia nervosa: comprehensive analysis of treatment, policy, and social work ethics
- Author:
- BERNACCHI Dana Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 62(2), 2017, pp.174-180.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Bulimia nervosa is an often debilitating eating disorder with a biopsychosocial set of risk factors. Those presenting are at an increased mortality rate and often have physical health complications as well as harmful cognitions related to self-esteem and overall self-concept. This article examines treatment, policy, and social work ethics as they relate to bulimia nervosa. A comprehensive cognitive–behavioural approach including psychoeducation, self-monitoring, exposure therapy, interpersonal therapy, body image therapy, energy balance training, and relapse prevention is recommended as evidence-based practice for treating bulimia nervosa. Authors identify health care policy and analyse it as a common barrier to treatment access. They also review ethical principles of competency and social justice as they relate to social work practitioners working with those diagnosed with bulimia nervosa. (Edited publisher abstract)
Implementation of positive behavioural support in a medium secure mental health service: a service development
- Authors:
- DAVIES Bronwen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health Training Education and Practice, 11(3), 2016, pp.156-161.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to detail the implementation and evaluation of positive behavioural support within a medium secure mental health service. Design/methodology/approach: Information regarding the policy context, service context and the processes supporting PBS interventions are outlined. Findings: PBS has historically been applied within child services in USA and learning disability services in UK. Originality/value: Forensic mental health is a new area of implementation and is in line with current policy promoting its use across a number of service contexts. (Publisher abstract)
The experimental research on well-being since 2004
- Author:
- CAAN Woody
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 14(4), 2015, pp.211-2013.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the claim by the Chief Medical Officer for England that "There is virtually no robust, peer-reviewed evidence to support a ‘well-being’ approach to mental health". Design/methodology/approach: Secondary research using research literature from two widely available databases, Scopus and Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts. Randomised controlled trials were sought that focused on 'well-being' (including well-being or wellness), from 2004 to the present. Findings: With both clinical samples and non-clinical populations, a variety of experimental trials were found. Studies were identified with both positive benefits and no benefits from intervention. The most numerous type of paper reported positive benefits for clinical patients. Research limitations/implications: Only a single reader classified the studies in this investigation, so the inter-rater reliability may be limited. Only two databases were searched. However, future work (such as that in progress by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing) may find an abundance of evidence on mental well-being. Practical implications: In many settings, well-being can improve after intervention. Social implications: What is measured as 'well-being' may need to take into account the perspective of the specific population being studied. Originality/value: This small-scale study was undertaken to inform policy in the new Public Mental Health Network. (Publisher abstract)
“Why can’t they be in the community?” a policy and practice analysis of transforming care for offenders with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- ALEXANDER Regi T., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 9(3), 2015, pp.139-148.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe key policy and practice issues regarding a significant subgroup of people with intellectual disability – those with offending behaviour being treated in forensic hospitals. Design/methodology/approach: The reasons why psychiatrists continue to be involved in the treatment of people with intellectual disability and mental health or behavioural problems and the factors that may lead to patients needing hospital admission are examined. Using two illustrative examples, three key questions – containment vs treatment, hospital care vs conditional discharge and hospital treatment vs using deprivation of liberty safeguards usage in the community are explored. Findings: Patients with intellectual disability, mental health problems and offending behaviours who are treated within forensic inpatient units tend to have long lengths of stay. The key variable that mediates this length of stay is the risk that they pose to themselves or others. Clinicians work within the framework of mental health law and have to be mindful that pragmatic solutions to hasten discharge into the community may not fall within the law. Originality/value: This paper makes practical suggestions for the future on how to best integrate hospital and community care for people with intellectual disability, mental health and offending behaviours. (Publisher abstract)
Mix 'n' match?
- Author:
- JOHNSTONE Lucy
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 110, July 2001, p.16.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Argues that the National Service Framework does not do enough to challenge a biomedical view of mental ill-health.
Drug debate intensifies
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.6.01, May 2001, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Mental health campaigners are demanding that quality of life considerations should prevail over issues of cost in the debate about who should get new anti-psychotic drugs.
Special treatment
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 14.1.98, 1998, pp.29-32.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Presents the views of a number of mental health practitioners on whether statutory mental health services should give priority to treating people with a personality disorder.