scholarly journals SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AND DEMENTIA: TRAINING AGING AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 1074-1074
Author(s):  
D.L. White ◽  
S. Hasworth
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Service Providers

A spatial analysis of Los Angeles County’s burden of serious mental illness in relation to public mental health service providers

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-239
Author(s):  
Sarah Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health Service Providers

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify regions of Los Angeles County with high burdens of serious mental illness and determine whether these regions align with those experiencing the greatest economic hardship. Design/methodology/approach This cross-sectional study analyzed the estimated prevalence of serious mental illness and the locations of publicly funded mental health service providers within each census tract of Los Angeles County. The burden of serious mental illness was calculated for each census tract using these variables and an optimized hot spot analysis was conducted to determine which regions were the most underserved in terms of serious mental illness. Findings There is a significantly higher burden of serious mental illness in Southeastern Los Angeles and Pomona Valley than in the rest of Los Angeles County (p = 0.01). The same can be said regarding the Lancaster-Palmdale area and San Fernando Valley (p = 0.05). These areas do appear to align with the areas of Los Angeles County with an economic hardship index in the fourth quartile. Originality/value Mental health initiatives targeting the four hot spot regions should be given priority by the County of Los Angeles. This is especially true when allocating funds from Proposition 63, which aims to address mental health disparities in underserved, unserved or inappropriately served populations.

scholarly journals Canadian Service Providers’ Perceptions of Barriers and Support Gaps in Housing and Mental Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Kerman ◽  
Reena Sirohi ◽  
Susan Eckerle Curwood ◽  
John Trainor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Canadian Study ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Lasting Change

People experiencing mental illness and homelessness face numerous barriers to becoming housed. Service providers who work with this population also encounter challenges to meeting service users’ needs, yet their perspectives have been only minimally studied. Using survey data from a pan-Canadian study, this article explores the barriers and facilitators to fostering lasting change in housing and mental health according to 96 housing providers and 186 community-based mental health service providers. Findings show that the perspectives of mental health service providers are largely consistent with those of housing providers, and identify a range of support gaps and barriers.

Trends in mental health service use by age among adults with serious mental illness

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 71-73
Author(s):  
Natasha E. Latzman ◽  
Heather Ringeisen ◽  
Valerie L. Forman–Hoffman ◽  
Breda Munoz ◽  
Shari Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Mental Health Service Use ◽  
Health Service Use

Monitoring the physical health of individuals with serious mental illness

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-115
Author(s):  
Majella Cahill ◽  
Anne Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Psychiatric Service ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Effective Models

AbstractDeveloping effective models of identifying and managing physical ill health amongst mental health service users has become an increasing concern for psychiatric service providers. This article sets out the general professional and Irish statutory obligations to provide physical health monitoring services for individuals with serious mental illness. Review and summary statements are provided in relation to the currently available guidelines on physical health monitoring.

Towards disabled futures: Non-realist embodiment in puppetry1

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Petra Kuppers
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Experimental Poetics ◽  
Hospital Practices

This article engages disability puppetry as plays of transactional object relations, opening into speculative realms, articulating new alignments of embodied and enminded difference. The examples here range from hospital practices via art/life pain-related somatic explorations to experimental poetics of classroom and gallery installations, and from there to small local theatres working in collaboration with mental health service providers. In all of these sites, disability and puppetry have much to say to one another, offering connection and new forms of meaning-making, using non-realist conventions to make new worlds in which disability stays present.

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