scholarly journals Restraining good practice: Reviewing evidence of the effects of restraint from the perspective of service users and mental health professionals in the United Kingdom (UK)

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Cusack ◽  
S. McAndrew ◽  
F. Cusack ◽  
T. Warne
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Service Users ◽  
The United Kingdom

Now they’re listening: involvement in clinical psychology training

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Laura Lea ◽  
Sue Holttum ◽  
Victoria Butters ◽  
Diana Byrne ◽  
Helen Cable ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Service User ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Psychology Training ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Clinical Psychology Training ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe 2014/2015 UK requirement for involvement of service users and carers in training mental health professionals has prompted the authors to review the work of involvement in clinical psychology training in the university programme. Have the voices of service users and carers been heard? The paper aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approachThe authors update the paper of 2011 in which the authors described the challenges of inclusion and the specific approaches the authors take to involvement. The authors do this in the context of the recent change to UK standards for service user and carer involvement, and recent developments in relation to partnership working and co-production in mental healthcare. The authors describe the work carried out by the authors – members of a service user involvement group at a UK university – to ensure the voices of people affected by mental health difficulties are included in all aspects of training.FindingsCareful work and the need for dedicated time is required to enable inclusive, effective and comprehensive participation in a mental health training programme. It is apparent that there is a group of service users whose voice is less heard: those who are training to be mental health workers.Social implicationsFor some people, involvement has increased. Trainee mental health professionals’ own experience of distress may need more recognition and valuing.Originality/valueThe authors are in a unique position to review a service-user-led project, which has run for 12 years, whose aim has been to embed involvement in training. The authors can identify both achievements and challenges.

scholarly journals Young Parents’ Experiences of Pregnancy and Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Moltrecht ◽  
Louise J. Dalton ◽  
Jeffrey R. Hanna ◽  
Clare Law ◽  
Elizabeth Rapa
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Young Parents ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Parents Experiences

Abstract Young parents (aged 16-24 years) in the perinatal period are at an increased risk of poor mental health especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, due to multiple risk factors including social and economic instability. COVID-19 related restrictions had profound implications for the delivery of perinatal care services and other support structures for young parents. Investigating young parents’ experiences during the pandemic, including their perceived challenges and needs, is important to inform good practice and provide appropriate support for young parents. Qualitative interviews were conducted with young parents (n=21) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom from February – May 2021. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Three key themes were identified to describe parents’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents reported specific COVID-19 related anxieties and stressors, including worries around contracting the virus and increased feelings of distress due to uncertainty created by the implications of the pandemic. Parents described feeling alone both at home and during antenatal appointments and highlighted the absence of social support as a major area of concern. Also, parents felt their perinatal care had been disrupted by the pandemic and experienced difficulties accessing care online or over the phone. This study highlights the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young parents, including their mental wellbeing and the perinatal support they were able to access. Insights from this study can inform the support and services offered to families going forward. Specifically, the findings emphasise the importance of (a) supporting both parents during perinatal appointments, (b) providing parents with mental health support early on and (c) finding ways to facilitate communication pathways between professionals and parents.

Working with interpreters

2021 ◽  
pp. 335-342
Author(s):  
Rachel Tribe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Cultural Brokers ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Psychiatrists will come into contact with service users who do not use English or the language of the country to which they have migrated. The professional responsibilities of all mental health professionals carry an obligation to serve all members of our communities equitably and impartially; this will include people who have migrated and are not fluent in the language of their chosen country of migration. Working with interpreters and cultural brokers can be an enriching and informative experience for psychiatrists, which can lead to the development of new knowledge. This is in addition to the challenging of what may be taken-for-granted knowledge, as well as the development of additional skills and ways of thinking about mental health. Interpreters and cultural brokers can, in addition to translating the language, explain relevant cultural factors, which are important to the clinical work and the meaning-making of service users and gain additional perspectives.

scholarly journals An Instrument to Measure Mental Health Professionals’ Beliefs and Attitudes towards Service Users’ Rights

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Eiroa-Orosa ◽  
Laura Limiñana-Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
High Concordance ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

We aimed at developing and validating a scale on the beliefs and attitudes of mental health professionals towards services users’ rights in order to provide a valid evaluation instrument for training activities with heterogeneous mental health professional groups. Items were extracted from a review of previous instruments, as well as from several focus groups which have been conducted with different mental health stakeholders, including mental health service users. The preliminary scale consisted of 44 items and was administered to 480 mental health professionals. After eliminating non-discriminant and low weighting items, a final scale of 25 items was obtained. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses produced a four-factor solution consisting of the following four dimensions; system criticism/justifying beliefs, freedom/coercion, empowerment/paternalism, and tolerance/discrimination. The scale shows high concordance with our theoretical model as well as adequate parameters of explained variance, model fit, and internal reliability. Additional work is required to assess the cultural equivalence and psychometrics of this tool in other settings and populations, including health students.

scholarly journals International mental health outcomes and benchmarking using the FACE approach

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Elzinga ◽  
Fiona Meredith & Paul Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Similar Treatment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
The Face

This article describes and compares the nature and severity of problems encountered by persons receiving mental healthservices in the United Kingdom and Australia, and the outcome of their treatment. The perspective of service providersand service users in the two countries was strikingly similar. Treatment was effective in alleviating problems withsocial circumstances, and in increasing adaptive and interpersonal functioning. Treatment was less effective inaddressing psychological or physical problems. Service users in the United Kingdom were more involved in developingtheir treatment care plan than those in Australia. The study demonstrates how data required for benchmarking andoutcome evaluation purposes can be generated as part of routine clinical processes.

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