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Acute solutions and beyond: lessons on service users involvement
- Author:
- LEA Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health Workforce Development, 1(2), 2006, pp.34-37.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This article describes how service user involvement at all levels can offer a different route for the provision of good quality care for people experiencing mental distress. Taking examples of service users involvement in the acute solutions project, from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, the paper demonstrates how effective involvement can bring about measurable change in service provision and patient satisfaction. Examining the benefits, barriers to, and practicalities of service users involvement, it is argued that placing involvement at the centre offers solutions to the persistent problems found in mental health services. Workers who value and facilitate effective service user involvement enable social inclusion, change service users' status and enrich their own lives and practice.
Pushed into the shadows: young people's experiences of adult mental health facilities
- Author:
- PARKER Camilla
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 233, February 2007, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
This article summaries and comments on the report 'Pushed into the Shadows: young people's experience of adult mental health facilities'. The report is based on the findings of a consultation, carried out by YoungMinds, with young people who had been admitted on to adult in-patient psychiatric facilities. The focus of the Consultation was to find out from young people what their experiences were and what they thought need to be done in order to address the problems that they had identified in relation to mental health services.
Is anybody listening?
- Author:
- WARNER Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 15.3.01, 2001, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that service users are unhappy with many aspects of inpatient mental health care and looks at how nurses can help.
Adult acute themed visit report: visit and monitoring report
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 61
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report details findings from visits to 47 mental health admission wards providing care to adults across Scotland, which were conducted to find out whether people receiving care felt their rights were being respected, identify any good practice and provide recommendations for practice. The visits reviewed the care of 323 patients and spoke to 41 carers and hospital staff. The report summarises key findings in the areas of: hospital admission, feeling safe, care planning, recovery, peer support, discharge planning, activities, consent to treatment and advance statements. The report found positive and negative findings. It identifies improvements in the physical environment, found wards were taking a more recovery-focused approach, and also found more peer support workers in wards since the last themed visit. However, the report also identifies a number of areas for improvement. These included: level of safety, with almost one in five patients spoken to reporting feeling unsafe; access to activities, with fewer than half of patients spoken to said they had the opportunity to exercise; and delays in accessing social work services affecting discharge planning. A series of recommendations are included. (Edited publisher abstract)
What in-patients want: a qualitative study of what's important to mental health service users in their recovery (Wayfinder Partnership)
- Authors:
- BREDSKI Joanna, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 20(1), 2015, pp.1-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the facilitators of recovery in in-patient psychiatric rehabilitation from the service users’ perspective. Design/methodology/approach: Interviews with 31 in-patients in rehabilitation wards at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital were coded and analysed thematically at an interpretive level using an inductive approach. Findings: The dominant themes identified were hope, agency, relationships and opportunity (ie environmental resources available on and off the ward such as employment and leisure time). It total, 20 subthemes were identified. Agency was more important to men than women and agency, hope and relationships were all more important to detained patients. Research limitations/implications: Interview data were collected in writing rather than taped. The results may not be transferrable to patient populations with significantly different demographic or service factors. Practical implications: Services need to target interventions at the areas identified by service users as important in their recovery. The findings suggest both environmental and relational aspects of care that may optimise recovery. Services also need to be able to measure the quality of the care they provide. A brief, culturally valid and psychometrically assessed instrument for measuring the recovery orientation of services is required. Originality/value: The conceptual framework identified in this paper can be used to develop a service user self-report measure of the recovery orientation of services. (Edited publisher abstract)
On the inside: a narrative review of mental health inpatient services
- Authors:
- GLASBY Jon, LESTER Helen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 35(6), September 2005, pp.863-879.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper describes and discusses the results of a narrative review of inpatient mental health services in the UK. Four main themes emerge from the review: the growing pressure on inpatient hospital services; the negative experience of inpatient services reported by many service users; the problematic nature of hospital discharge; and possible alternatives to hospital admission. This review also suggests that a failure to recognize and act on what appears to be happening in hospitals could result in inpatient care once again being subject to the scrutiny and criticism that cast a shadow over psychiatric services in the 1960s and 1970s. To stop this happening, current government policy is right to focus attention back onto acute care through new guidance and by commissioning research. However, changes also need to take place at a practice level so that front line workers are familiar with conditions in local acute services and can challenge unacceptable behaviour/services in support of their service users. With current changes in the make-up of local mental health services and a greater emphasis on partnership working between health and social care, it may be that social care practitioners can do this not only from the outside, but increasingly ‘on the inside’ (from within integrated health and social care organizations).
A can of madness
- Author:
- PEGLER Jason
- Publisher:
- Chipmunkapublishing
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 300p.
- Place of publication:
- Brentwood
The author offers his readers a unique opportunity to emphasize with sufferers of the condition known as Manic depression ( Bi-Polar disorder) in this compelling account of his ordeal with this illness. The author takes the reader through his personal transformation from an uncouth teenager taking ecstasy to someone who grows up realising that they can use their own past pain, get better and help other people. The book was written using excerpts of a diary written at the time of the author’s flights into mania and his descents into depression. The author recounts a dizzying, dark and sometimes euphoric journey through a world of elation, despair, binge drinking, drugs, raves, and psychiatric wards.
Scare in the community
- Author:
- SIMPSON Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 98(39), September 2002, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article looks at the reaction to the government's draft mental health Bill. It considers whether a patient would be comfortable telling his/her GP about any mental health problem if compulsory detention becomes more widespread.
First year strategy for NIMHE: meeting the implementation challenge in mental health
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The NIMHE is a new organisation based within the modernisation agency of the Department of Health. Its aim is to provide the quality of life for people of all ages who experience mental distress. Working beyond the NHS, the MIME provides a gateway to learning and development, through the establishment of local centres and national programmes of work.
Turned upside down: services for young people in crisis
- Authors:
- LEON Lucy, SMITH Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 51, March 2001, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Describes the results of a new research project which, through listening to the experiences of young people who have survived a mental health crisis, aims to promote the development of community-based crisis services for 16-25-year-olds.