Positive Ageing: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Consumers Robert D Hill Positive Ageing: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Consumers Wiley 256 £19.99 0 393 70453 X 039370453X Reviewer: Lorraine Morgan, chair of the practitioner network on ageing and staff tutor, Faculty of Health and Social Care, the Open University, Wales

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 22-22
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Open University ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Positive Ageing

scholarly journals Experiences of mental health professionals supporting front-line health and social care workers during COVID-19: qualitative study

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Billings ◽  
Camilla Biggs ◽  
Brian Chi Fung Ching ◽  
Vasiliki Gkofa ◽  
David Singleton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Clinical Pathways ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Health And Social Care

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a well-documented impact on the mental health of front-line health and social care workers (HSCWs). However, little attention has been paid to the experiences of, and impact on, the mental health professionals who were rapidly tasked with supporting them. Aims We set out to redress this gap by qualitatively exploring UK mental health professionals’ experiences, views and needs while working to support the well-being of front-line HSCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method Mental health professionals working in roles supporting front-line HSCWs were recruited purposively and interviewed remotely. Transcripts of the interviews were analysed by the research team following the principles of reflexive thematic analysis. Results We completed interviews with 28 mental health professionals from varied professional backgrounds, career stages and settings across the UK. Mental health professionals were motivated and driven to develop new clinical pathways to support HSCWs they perceived as colleagues and many experienced professional growth. However, this also came at some costs, as they took on additional responsibilities and increased workloads, were anxious and uncertain about how best to support this workforce and tended to neglect their own health and well-being. Many were professionally isolated and were affected vicariously by the traumas and moral injuries that healthcare workers talked about in sessions. Conclusions This research highlights the urgent need to consider the mental well-being, training and support of mental health professionals who are supporting front-line workers.

scholarly journals The therapeutic power of volunteering

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colette Fegan ◽  
Sarah Cook
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
List Type ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

SummaryThere is growing evidence from smaller evaluative studies in the USA and anecdotal papers in the UK that supported volunteering can help recovery and can be a pathway into paid work for people with serious and fluctuating mental health conditions. It allows the person to take risks and test out a working environment. This opportunity can integrate their experience of mental illness into a valued identity and provides opportunities to engage with a world of work. We recommend that mental health professionals consider ways of providing volunteering opportunities as part of a recovery-oriented service within their organisations.LEARNING OBJECTIVESAppreciate the benefits patients gain from volunteering.Understand the principles of a supported volunteering scheme.Appreciate the potential value to the patient of volunteering within health and social care settings.

Counter-rhetoric and sources of enduring conflict in contested organizational fields: A case study of mental health professionals

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-356
Author(s):  
Robin Fincham ◽  
Tom Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Organizational Fields ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Multiple Groups

Abstract As a means by which actors justify beliefs and practices, rhetoric has a key institutional role. In contested settings, where multiple groups and the logics associated with them interact, research has highlighted rhetorical strategies that exploit rival systems. The account we develop expands on these ideas and suggests they embrace forms of counter-rhetoric, or arguments that delegitimize a rival’s logic and refine and reframe others’ values. We use these categories to explore the case of a local mental health service, an area of health policy known for problematic diagnosis and treatment. Here groups of medical and social-care providers were required to work together in a system of intensive inter-professional relations and clashing logics. Our analysis focuses on this interaction, exploring the language-based nature of logics and sources of conflict between logics that are asserted in counter-rhetorical forms.

For Forensic Mental Health Professionals

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-350
Author(s):  
Paul D. Lipsitt
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Forensic Mental Health
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