A Feasibility Study to Implement and Evaluate a Third Sector Mental Health Recovery Programme to Support the Transition to Community Living from Acute Mental Health Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-71
Author(s):  
Stacey Davies ◽  
Andrea Davies ◽  
Jason Cockings ◽  
Amy Beasley ◽  
Rhiannon Luke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
Community Living

MINDing the gap: Service users’ perspectives of the differences in mental health care between statutory and non-statutory organisations

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S340-S340
Author(s):  
S. McAndrew ◽  
T. Warne ◽  
E. Beaumont ◽  
A. Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Sunday Morning ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

IntroductionIn the UK, almost 50% of illness diagnosed among working age adults is mental distress, depression and chronic anxiety being the two most prevalent illnesses. However, only 24% of those diagnosed receive appropriate interventions within the National Health Service (NHS). In light of this, third sector organisations, such as MIND, are left to fill the gap in providing therapeutic care. This paper reports on an evaluative study of what Mind offers as opposed to statutory services from a service user perspective.AimAn exploration of the differences in mental health care between statutory and non-statutory organisations.ObjectivesTo identify how service users experienced MIND's counselling service. To establish the benefits and disadvantages of mental health care within statutory and non-statutory services. To identify the impact of mental health care from non-statutory services.MethodThis qualitative research project, adopted a case study approach. Using one to one narrative interviews, data from 12 participants, five males and seven females were collected. Following transcription, each narrative was analysed individually, with thematic analysis being used across all 12 interviews.ResultsSix themes were identified; mindful of the gap; easing like sunday morning; magic moments; love is in the air; lighting up a future and changing the status quo.ConclusionMind plays a significant role in enabling those with psychological problems to move towards building a better future. Findings suggest statutory services can learn important lessons from non-statutory organisations not least how best to provide cohesive, collaborative and compassionate mental health care for those in distress.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Stepped care mental health service in Australian primary care: codesign and feasibility study

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Anderson ◽  
Kathleen O'Moore ◽  
Mariam Faraj ◽  
Judith Proudfoot
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Translational Research ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Stepped Care ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Practice Staff

Objective In 2015, the Australian Government introduced several mental health reforms, including the requirement that Primary Health Networks (PHNs) provide stepped care services for Australians with mental health needs such as anxiety and depression. This paper reports on the development and feasibility study of StepCare, an online stepped mental healthcare service in general practice that screens patients, provides immediate feedback to patients and general practitioners (GPs), transmits stepped treatment recommendations to GPs and monitors patients’ progress, including notification of deterioration. Methods The present codesign and feasibility study in one PHN examined: (1) the acceptability and feasibility of StepCare to GPs, practice staff and patients; (2) the impact of StepCare on clinical practice; and (3) the barriers to and facilitators of implementation. Results Thirty-two GPs, 22 practice staff and 418 patients participated in the study. Overall, patients, practice staff and GPs found StepCare acceptable and feasible, commending its privacy, the mental health screening, monitoring and feedback. They also made suggestions for service improvements. GPs reported that StepCare helped with their identification and management of patients with common mental health issues. Conclusions Preliminary data suggest that StepCare may be acceptable and feasible in Australian general practice, helping GPs identify and manage common mental health problems in their patients. The study provides implications for policy and practice, and points the way to future translational research into stepped mental health care. What is known about the topic? Depression and anxiety are common illnesses in primary care and GPs are ideally placed to implement stepped care approaches enabling early detection and accessible, effective care. What does this paper add? Developed in and for general practice, StepCare is the first fully integrated stepped approach to primary mental health care in Australia. As a first step in a translational research program evaluating the effectiveness of StepCare, this paper reports data regarding the feasibility and acceptability of the service. What are the implications for practitioners? Integrated into the workflow of general practice, StepCare is an online service that helps GPs detect new cases of depression and anxiety, provide evidence-based stepped care treatments and monitor patients’ progress.

scholarly journals Feasibility study on mental health‐care effects of plant installations in office spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kahori Genjo ◽  
Hiroshi Matsumoto ◽  
Nobuaki Ogata ◽  
Takaoki Nakano
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Feasibility Study

scholarly journals Conversational agents and the making of mental health recovery

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 205520762096617
Author(s):  
Robert Meadows ◽  
Christine Hine ◽  
Eleanor Suddaby
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Personal Recovery ◽  
Point Of Departure

Background Artificial intelligence (AI) is said to be “transforming mental health”. AI-based technologies and technique are now considered to have uses in almost every domain of mental health care: including decision-making, assessment and healthcare management. What remains underexplored is whether/how mental health recovery is situated within these discussions and practices. Method Taking conversational agents as our point of departure, we explore the ways official online materials explain and make sense of chatbots, their imagined functionality and value for (potential) users. We focus on three chatbots for mental health: Woebot, Wysa and Tess. Findings “Recovery” is largely missing as an overt focus across materials. However, analysis does reveal themes that speak to the struggles over practice, expertise and evidence that the concept of recovery articulates. We discuss these under the headings “troubled clinical responsibility”, “extended virtue of (technological) self-care” and “altered ontologies and psychopathologies of time”. Conclusions Ultimately, we argue that alongside more traditional forms of recovery, chatbots may be shaped by, and shaping, an increasingly individualised form of a “personal recovery imperative”.

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

Pediatricians' Mental Health Care Role Suggested

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
DOUG BRUNK
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care

Primary Care Collaboration on Mental Health Care Urged

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (21) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
MARY ELLEN SCHNEIDER
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care

Handbook of Person-Centered Mental Health Care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nosheen Akhtar ◽  
Cheryl Forchuk ◽  
Katherine McKay ◽  
Sandra Fisman ◽  
Abraham Rudnick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care

Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Scale to Assess the Therapeutic Relationship in Community Mental Health Care (D-STAR)

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Loos ◽  
Reinhold Kilian ◽  
Thomas Becker ◽  
Birgit Janssen ◽  
Harald Freyberger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Community Mental Health Care ◽  
German Version

Objective: There are presently no instruments available in German language to assess the therapeutic relationship in psychiatric care. This study validates the German version of the Scale to Assess the Therapeutic Relationship in Community Mental Health Care (D-STAR). Method: 460 persons with severe mental illness and 154 clinicians who had participated in a multicenter RCT testing a discharge planning intervention completed the D-STAR. Psychometric properties were established via item analysis, analyses of missing values, internal consistency, and confirmatory factor analysis. Furthermore, convergent validity was scrutinized via calculating correlations of the D-STAR scales with two measures of treatment satisfaction. Results: As in the original English version, fit indices of a 3-factor model of the therapeutic relationship were only moderate. However, the feasibility and internal consistency of the D-STAR was good, and correlations with other measures suggested reasonable convergent validity. Conclusions: The psychometric properties of the D-STAR are acceptable. Its use can be recommended in German-speaking countries to assess the therapeutic relationship in both routine care and research.

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