scholarly journals User and carer involvement in mental health training

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gill Livingston ◽  
Claudia Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Mental Health Training ◽  
User Training ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Voluntary Organisations

National policy in the UK emphasises the importance of involving service users and caregivers in all types of mental health provision. The training of mental health care and social service professionals has always relied on seeing patients, but the patients' role has usually been a passive one. This is now changing, and service users and carers are becoming active educators in professional training, benefiting both the teachers and those taught. Provision is still very variable and is dependent on local initiatives. Voluntary organisations are active in this field, and there are now two academic posts for service users in the UK. This article explores the current forms of service user training, its benefits and drawbacks, and makes recommendations for future work.

Mental Health Training: Revolution in Professional Training

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Metalef ◽  
Karl Pottharst ◽  
Mortimer Appley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Mental Health Training ◽  
Health Training

scholarly journals Observations from a small country: mental health policy, services and nursing in Wales

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ben Hannigan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Health Need ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Wales is a small country, with an ageing population, high levels of population health need and an economy with a significant reliance on public services. Its health system attracts little attention, with analyses tending to underplay the differences between the four countries of the UK. This paper helps redress this via a case study of Welsh mental health policy, services and nursing practice. Distinctively, successive devolved governments in Wales have emphasised public planning and provision. Wales also has primary legislation addressing sustainability and future generations, safe nurse staffing and rights of access to mental health services. However, in a context in which gaps always exist between national policy, local services and face-to-face care, evidence points to the existence of tension between Welsh policy aspirations and realities. Mental health nurses in Wales have produced a framework for action, which describes practice exemplars and looks forward to a secure future for the profession. With policy, however enlightened, lacking the singular potency to bring about intended change, nurses as the largest of the professional groups involved in mental health care have opportunities to make a difference in Wales through leadership, influence and collective action.

scholarly journals How ‘culture bound’ is ‘cultural psychiatry’?

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sushrut Jadhav
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
North America ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Mental Health Training ◽  
Cultural Psychiatry ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
The Uk

Cultural psychiatry as a clinical specialty sprung mainly from Europe and North America, in order to respond to growing concerns of ethnic minorities in high-income countries. Academic psychiatrists pursuing comparative international studies on mental health, together with medical anthropologists conducting clinical ethnographies, contributed to its theoretical basis (Kleinman, 1987; Littlewood, 1990). What at first appeared to be a marginal specialty is no longer so. For example, the UK alone has witnessed a steady growth of the field, as evidenced by its mandatory inclusion in mental health training curricula, and the existence of several taught masters courses, academic positions in universities and three dedicated journals, as well as, more recently, lead papers in mainstream publications that have debated the cultural position of ‘biology’ itself (Timimi & Taylor, 2004). Additionally, with a proliferation of clinical jobs for ‘ethnic minority’ services in hospital trusts across the country, there is ample scope for employment. The overall evidence indicates that ‘cultural psychiatry’ in the UK is now a specialty in its own right.

scholarly journals Typology of psychiatric emergency services in the United Kingdom: a narrative literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Opeyemi Odejimi ◽  
Dhruba Bagchi ◽  
George Tadros
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emergency Service ◽  
Psychiatric Emergency ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Narrative Literature ◽  
Narrative Literature Review ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Background Mental health crisis requiring emergency access to psychiatric service can occur at any time. Psychiatric Emergency Service (PES) is described as one that provides an immediate response to an individual in crisis within the first 24 h. Presently, several types of PESs are available in the United Kingdom (UK) with the aim of providing prompt and effective assessment and management of patients. Therefore, this study aims to provide a detailed narrative literature review of the various types of Psychiatric Emergency Service (PES) currently available in the UK. Method Electronic search of five key databases (MEDLINE, PsychINFO, EMBASE, AMED and PUBMED) was conducted. Studies were included if it described a mental health service in the UK that provides immediate response in mental health crisis within the first 24 h. Excluded studies did not describe a PES, non-English, and were not conducted in UK. Results Nine types of PESs were found. Amongst the 9 services, more papers described crisis resolution home treatment. Majority of the papers reported services within England than other countries within the UK. Conclusion All types of PESs were described as beneficial, particularly to mental health service users, but not without some shortcomings. There is a need to continue carrying out methodological research that evaluate impact, cost-effectiveness as well as identify methods of optimising the beneficial outcomes of the various types of PESs. This may help inform researchers, policy makers and commissioners, service users and carers, service providers and many more on how to ensure current and future PESs meet the needs as well as aid recovery during crisis.

Mental health care in London

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (S2) ◽  
pp. s274-s278 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. De Ponte ◽  
G. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Mental Health Staff ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Occupancy Rates

AbstractAimTo describe principles and characteristics of mental health care in London.MethodBased on existing data, service provision, number of professionals working in services, funding arrangements, pathways intocare, user/carer involvement and specific issues are reported.ResultsLondon experiences high levels of need and use of mental health services compared to England as a whole. Inpatient andcompulsory admissions are considerably higher than the national average. Despite having more psychiatric beds and mental health staff, London has higher bed occupancy rates and staffing shortages. At the same time there is a trend away from institutionalised care to care in the community.ConclusionMental health services in the UK are undergoing considerable reform. These changes will not remove the greater need formental health services in the capital, but national policy and funding lends support to cross-agency and pan-London work to tackle some of the problems characteristic of mental health in London. Whilst various issues of mental health care in London overlap with those in other European capitals, there also are some specific problems and features.

Mental health and deafness: An investigation of current residential services and service users throughout the UK

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 627-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy McClelland ◽  
Daniel Chisholm ◽  
Stephen Powell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Residential Services ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals The privatisation of remembering practices in contemporary inpatient mental healthcare: going beyond Agnes's Jacket

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven D. Brown ◽  
Paula Reavey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
First Century ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Collective Models ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Therapy Room ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Memory Practices

Abstract In this paper, we consider changes to memorial practices for mental health service users during the asylum period of the mid-nineteenth up to the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. The closing of large asylums in the UK has been largely welcomed by professionals and service-users alike, but their closure has led to a decrease in continuous and consistent care for those with enduring mental health challenges. Temporary and time-limited mental health services, largely dedicated to crisis management and risk reduction have failed to enable memory practices outside the therapy room. This is an unusual case of privatised memories being favoured over collective memorial activity. We argue that the collectivisation of service user memories, especially in institutions containing large numbers of long-stay patients, would benefit both staff and patients. The benefit would be in the development of awareness of how service users make sense of their past in relation to their present stay in hospital, how they might connect with others in similar positions and how they may connect with the world and others upon future release. This seems to us central to a project of recovery and yet is rarely practised in any mental health institution in the UK, despite being central to other forms of care provision, such as elderly and children's care services. We offer some suggestions on how collective models of memory in mental health might assist in this project of recovery and create greater visibility between past, present and future imaginings.

scholarly journals ‘Med 3’ rock and blues band to Trieste

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 509-510
Author(s):  
Rod Bale
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Medical Certificate ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City

On a recent visit to the UK, Dr Guiseppe Dell Acqua, a leading exponent of the Italian psychiatric reforms, heard the ‘Med 3’ band play and extended an invitation to visit Trieste and give a concert. ‘Med 3’, the name being an allusion to the medical certificate, were formed in 1992. A Mental Health Week was held in the City of Portsmouth that year. In association with the Arts Connection, a local organisation promoting the arts to a wide audience, and the Portsmouth Care Consortium who were organising the event, artists in many fields ran workshops for mental health service users. Guy and Emma Heape, session musicians, ran a workshop at the Social Service Mental Health Day Centre and it was so successful it led to a band being formed. The band achieved recognition by winning a Mental Health Task Force award in 1993. An invitation to accompany the band to Trieste was readily accepted.

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