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Adopting innovations: lessons learned from a peer-based hospital diversion programme
- Authors:
- BURNS-LYNCH Bill, SALZER Mark S.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 37(6), December 2001, pp.511-521.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Moves to bridge the gap between research and practice have heightened interest in how service innovations are adopted. This paper reports on a peer-based hospital diversion programme in the USA that provided short-term respite care, clinical monitoring, connection or re-connection to other mental health services, and peer support. The programme was successful in providing services to the target population and was viewed as highly desirable by service recipients and clinical agencies. However, full adoption of this innovation was not realised and it closed barely a year after opening. Lessons learned from both the "life" and "death" of this programme offered.
Turned upside down: developing community-based crisis services for 16-25-year-olds experiencing a mental health crisis
- Authors:
- SMITH Karen, LEON Lucy
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of research aimed at developing models of community-based crisis service for young people aged 16-24 years. Surveys the views of young people with experience of mental health crisis on their experiences and the kind of services they would like. Outlines possible models for crisis services, with examples of existing projects, and draws up recommendations for future practice, with particular regard to user involvement.
This is madness too: critical perspectives on mental health services
- Editors:
- NEWNES Craig, HOLMES Guy, DUNN Cailzie
- Publisher:
- PCCS Books
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 202p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Ross-on-Wye
Offers a compassionate scholarly critique of the treatment of children, government policy, the use of anti-depressants and other areas fundamental to mental health services. The book brings together the views of service users and professionals. Contents include: The lunatics have taken over the asylum; risk and dangerousness; rights and wrongs; an end to madness.