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All talk: experiencing user-led research
- Authors:
- GILLARD Steve, STACEY Estelle
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 9(2), May 2005, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The authors, of Slough User-Led Consultation (SULC) describe the benefits of people with experience of mental health problems undertaking research if the service users being interviewed are to feel able to talk freely and openly about their views and experiences of services.
Women and mental health: turning rhetoric into reality: sharing practice perspectives and strategies for action on women's mental health: notes from study day 2nd March 2005
- Authors:
- KNOWLES Karen, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Perspectives Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 110p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents the findings from the study day on women’s mental health in March 2005 at the London Voluntary Resource Centre in Holloway, North London. This event was hosted jointly by the Social Perspectives Network (SPN) and the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (SCMH) The emphasis in these papers given to listening to women’s stories and believing them is particularly relevant following the recent publication of the Kerr / Haslam Inquiry’. The main aim of the day was to create an environment in which information could be exchanged and practical strategies for delivering gender sensitive services explored.
Cash in their hands
- Authors:
- COLDHAM Tina, NEWBIGGING Karen, VICK Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2005, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article reports on a project undertaken by the Health and Social Care Advisory Service (HASCAS), and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, to explore the barriers to implementing direct payments in mental health and the ways in which take up of direct payments by people experiencing direct payments could be increased. The project used focus groups to facilitate dialogue between mental health professionals and service users about the potential offered by direct payments to give more choice and control to service users. The project also aimed to target people from black and minority communities. Summarises some of the main findings.
Psychiatric advance directives: qualitative study of informed deliberations by mental health service users
- Authors:
- AMERING Michaela, STASTNY Peter, HOPPER Kim
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 186(3), March 2005, pp.247-252.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Established legal mandates and high expectations for psychiatric advance directives are not matched by empirical evidence documenting their actual implementation. This study explored the interests, concerns and planning activities of informed mental health service users contemplating such directives. Standard qualitative research techniques were used: field observations, interviews, focus groups, archival research and key informant interviews; 33 persons participated in the interviews and focus groups. Transcripts were coded and analysed for thematic content, and results were member-checked. Training set in motion labour-intensive projects: conceptualising how a psychiatric advance directive would work in one’s life, mobilising resources, reviewing past experiences and assessing risks. Especially meaningful was the prospect of being treated as a responsible agent in future interactions with the mental health system. Advance directives are best thought of as complex planning tools for future psychiatric crisis management, rather than focal interventions to enhance compliance. Research is needed to explore the institutional response to this prospective decision-sharing initiative.
We did it our way
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, BEALES Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 136, November 2005, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The authors show how a group of long-term, current mental health service users with minimal previous experience were able to undertake good-quality research, given the opportunity and proper support. They report on the group Service User Research and Evaluation (SURE) and their research on service user views of the services of the Mental After Care Association (MACA's).
Desirable outcomes of of WORKSTEP: user and provider views
- Authors:
- MEAH Angela, THORNTON Patricia
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 110p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In this report disabled people said it was important to set themselves goals and experience achieving them. Achieving things through their jobs, they said, encouraged them to set goals outside work, like learning to travel independently or to drive. Going to work gave disabled people the chance to meet new people and make friends. This was especially important to people with learning disabilities who complained of feeling bored when ‘stuck at home’. The routine of work was important to people with mental health conditions. They said it offered a distraction from their condition and gave them a sense of an ‘ordinary life’. Disabled people said that having a job was a sign of ‘wellness’ and getting on with life.
How patients in New Zealand view community treatment orders
- Authors:
- GIBBS Anita, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 14(4), August 2005, pp.357-368.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
New Zealand operates a well-embedded community treatment order scheme for patients with serious mental disorders. A similar scheme may be enacted for England and Wales. This study aimed to explore the views of patients with recent experience of community treatment orders. All patients in one region under an order in the last 2 years, not readmitted to hospital for at least 6 months, were included, subject to their capacity and consent. Forty-two patients out of 84 potential participants were interviewed. The majority of patients were generally supportive of the community treatment order, especially if the alternative was hospital. Many valued the access to services and sense of security obtained, and attributed improvements in their health to treatment under the order. They also experienced reduced choice about medication and restrictions on residence and travel. For a minority this meant they were strongly opposed to the order, but for most the restrictions did not unduly hinder them. The majority of patients viewed the order as a helpful step towards community stability. The usefulness of community treatment orders is accepted by most patients under them in NZ, as well as by most psychiatrists. Critical factors include the quality of therapeutic relationships and the structure provided for community mental health care.
We want to be able to work
- Author:
- MORGAN Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, October 2005, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Highland Users Group is a network of people who use mental health services in the Highlands. This article reports on discussions within the group (meetings were held in 11 of their 13 branches, with 83 people taking part in discussions) too investigate why so few of the group were in employment.
Using an action research approach to involving service users in the assessment of professional competence
- Author:
- BAILEY Di
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 8(2), June 2005, pp.165-179.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper reports on a piece of action research that has involved people who use mental health services in systematically providing feedback from a user perspective on participants' assessed work completed for one module of a masters' training programme in mental health. In an attempt to improve professional practice and include people who were accessing mental health services in so doing, it outlines how users were trained to provide feedback and the training methods employed. The findings summarise the kind of issues users raised in their feedback to participants about the evidence professionals provided to demonstrate their learning from the training programme. A focus group interview with professionals provides a contrasting insight into the participants' experience of having their work commented upon from a user perspective. The paper draws on the experience of a five-year external evaluation of an interdisciplinary programme in community mental health at Birmingham University in the UK which has highlighted the involvement of people who use mental health services as a particular innovation in the design, delivery and evaluation of the curriculum.
Minority voices: research into the access and acceptability of services for the mental health of young people from black and minority ethnic groups
- Authors:
- STREET Cathy, et al
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research focuses on exploring the awareness and experiences of young people from Black and minority ethnic groups in using child and adolescent mental health services. A particular aim was to look at the barriers preventing these young people from accessing help. Data was gathered from an in-depth study in four sample areas of services for the mental health of Black and minority ethnic young people, and included focus groups and individual interviews with young people. Key findings revealed a very mixed picture of activity, suggesting that some parts of the country are quite active in developing services for young people from Black and minority ethnic groups - and of forging links with community services - whereas others have little or no specific provision. Also, a wide range of concerns about existing mental health service provision and problems in accessing services was reported by both young people and staff alike. The report is aimed at policy-makers, service commissioners and those working with young people from Black and minority ethnic communities.