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Learning helps young adults to cope with disability
- Author:
- AYLWARD Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 14(2), October 2002, pp.11-12.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
Looks at research conducted by the Young Adult Learners Partnership (YALP), funded by the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. The research aims to raise the profile of learning provision for young adults with mental health problems and highlight the contribution the learning skills sector can make.
Young people's experience of recovery and wellbeing following a suicide attempt
- Authors:
- COGGAN Carolyn, BENNETT Sara
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Now: the Practice Journal of Child, Youth and Family, 23, December 2002, pp.15-22.
- Publisher:
- Child, Youth and Family (Department of Child, Youth and Family Services, Te Tari Awhina I te Tamaiti, te Rangatahi, tae atu ki te Whanau)
Discusses evidence that young people (15-24) in New Zealand are at increased suicide risk compared with other OECD countries. Describes analysis of interviews with young people who had attempted suicide. Findings showed most intended to end their lives, though some sought to attract attention. Extracts express the sense of the impact and the enormous change in sense of self and relationships. Concludes developing a sense of resistance to future suicidal behaviours is complex and time-consuming.
Acute in-patient psychiatric care for young people with severe mental illness: recommendations for commissioners, child and adolescent psychiatrists and general psychiatrists
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 11p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
There is widespread recognition that the care of young people presenting with acute, severe mental illness is often unsatisfactory. This can involve a lack of any suitable bed, undue delay, or an inappropriate admission to an adult or paediatric bed. In fact, in England and Wales, some 600 young people are inappropriately placed each year on adult or paediatric wards. The report notes that the principles of specialist provision for adolescents with serious mental illness should include: prompt admission; a suitably safe and appropriately staffed ward environment (which conforms to the agreed standards); geographical proximity to the family home (enabling frequent visits and appropriate family interventions); and minimisation of health and safety risks from other patients and availability of drugs and alcohol. The key recommendations are that: young people aged under 16 years should not be admitted to adult psychiatric wards; those aged 16 or 17 years can be considered for admission to adult psychiatric wards when no suitable specialist adolescent psychiatric bed is available they have severe mental illness; acceptable standards of care are met; health commissioners need to develop appropriate services inappropriate admissions should be considered as a sign of inadequate resources and treated as an untoward or critical incident. The report concludes that significant investment and development are needed to provide acute in-patient and community services for adolescents with severe mental illness in line with Government priorities.
The learning needs of young adults with mental health difficulties
- Author:
- AYLWARD Nicola
- Publisher:
- Young Adult Learners Partnership
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
This briefing outlines the learning needs of young adults (aged 16-25) with mental health difficulties and the role that the learning and skills sector can play in enabling these young adults to progress. The information given is based upon the findings of initial research and is reinforced by research undertaken by other organisations and by quantitative and anecdotal evidence from the various development projects and funds that both NIACE and NYA have managed.
Breaking barriers
- Author:
- WILSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 61, November 2002, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
The Department of Health's publication of the "Breaking Down the Barriers" strategy for development sets out to identify practical ways in which existing counseling provision can be improved and increased. Crucially, the strategy seeks to promote the benefits of joint working between statutory services, and young people's information and counseling services.
Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal prospective study
- Authors:
- ARSENEAULT Louise, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 23.11.02, 2002, pp.1212-1213.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Although most young people use cannabis in adolescence without harm, a vulnerable minority experience harmful outcomes. A tenth of the cannabis users by age 15 in our sample (3/29) developed schizophreniform disorder by age 26 compared with 3% of the remaining cohort (22/730). Our findings suggest that cannabis use among psychologically vulnerable adolescents should be strongly discouraged by parents, teachers, and health practitioners. Policy makers and law makers should concentrate on delaying onset of cannabis use.
Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study
- Authors:
- PATON George C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 23.11.02, 2002, pp.1195-1198.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
The purpose of this article is to determine whether cannabis use in adolescence predisposes to higher rates of depression and anxiety in young adulthood. Weekly or more frequent cannabis use in teenagers predicted an approximately twofold increase in risk for later depression and anxiety after adjustment for potential baseline confounders. In contrast, depression and anxiety in teenagers predicted neither later weekly nor daily cannabis use. Frequent cannabis use in teenage girls predicts later depression and anxiety, with daily users carrying the highest risk. Given recent increasing levels of cannabis use, measures to reduce frequent and heavy recreational use seem warranted.
The enemy within
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.11.02, 2002, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Highlights how many teenagers are frightened to admit they are suffering from mental health problems due to the stigma attached.
The drugs don't work
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.10.02, 2002, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how mental health services are being challenged by the use of drugs by young people with mental health problems.
Family fears
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.10.02, 2002, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how failure to provide adequate mental health services for children and young people can impact on their families.