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Pusateri, Cassandra G. "Mental Health Services in Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3160.
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Jefferies, Natalie. "Young people moving on from child and adolescent mental health services to adult mental health services." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3715/.
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There is a sound evidence base on the effects of the therapeutic alliance on outcome in psychotherapy for adults. In comparison, there is a smaller amount of literature on the effects of the therapeutic alliance on outcomes for adolescents. Adolescents rarely are seen individually for therapy and instead are often seen by family therapists as part of a system with other members of the family. At present, it is uncertain what the effects of the therapeutic alliance on outcome for adolescents in family therapy are. This paper presents a systematic review that aims to investigate the effects of the therapeutic alliance on outcome in adolescents in family therapy and what factors influence the therapeutic alliance with adolescents in family therapy. A systematic review of electronic databases was carried out using a quality assurance checklist adapted from the American Academy of Neurology Clinical Practice Guidelines (2004). This checklist was used as it assessed aspects of the studies’ theoretical basis, design, measures, analysis and results. Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria and were reviewed. The findings of this review suggest that the therapeutic alliance affects outcome for adolescents in family therapy. The presence of identifiable features of the therapeutic alliance, such as task, goal and bond can strengthen the therapeutic alliance with adolescents. Research into this area is still in its preliminary stages. However, important factors have been identified that affect outcome. Further research is necessary before more substantial claims of the therapeutic alliance on outcome can be made. The limitations of this review are presented, followed by clinical, training and supervision implications and suggestions for future research.
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Harley, Judith Ann. "Mental Health Consumers' Perspectives on Traditional Mental Health Services Versus Peer-Run Services: A Qualitative Study." Ashland University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1352125523.
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Jones, Siobhan. "Adolescent engagement in mental health services." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2016. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/14807/.
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Despite older adolescence being a risk period for the development of mental health concerns, mental health service engagement is low amongst 16-18 year olds. As therapeutic attendance is linked to clinical outcome, it is important to understand engagement in this population. There is a paucity of research looking specifically at the older adolescent engagement phenomenon. Previous qualitative research into adolescent experiences has provided rich and detailed results. Ten 16-18 years olds, engaged in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, were recruited from two London-based services. Each young person was interviewed in order to understand their personal experience of engaging in mental health services. Interviews were transcribed and underwent Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Analysis produced twelve subthemes subsumed within five superordinate themes: engagement begins at help seeking, strength of inner resolve, evolution of the self, in the clinic room, and, existing within service walls: physical and policy-based boundaries. Themes are discussed in detail. Conclusions are drawn in relation to previous theory and research. When considering 16-18 year understandings of the engagement phenomena, key elements include: clinician and service developmental appropriateness, negotiation of developmental tasks in relation to engagement, experience of the physical building environment, and awareness of service policy limitations. Suggestions for clinical practice in relation to engagement facilitators and threat are made, and recommendations for future research proposed.
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Curtis, Kathryn. "Mental health services and American expatriates." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/670.
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Lovell, Jonathan. "Self-disclosure in mental health services." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19278/.
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Sharing lived experience of mental health experiences by mental health practitioners is a topic of increasing relevance in statutory UK mental health settings, in part because of the rise in recent years of the employment of peer workers who share their lived experience by default. Literature to date has suggested that self-disclosure can have a range of benefits and risks, but existing studies have tended to focus on general rather than mental health disclosure, have not taken place in statutory settings, have studied a narrow section of the workforce, or have used analogue methodology. The current study used quantitative and qualitative methods through surveys and focus groups to explore statutory UK mental health practitioners’ and service-users’ views about the helpfulness of sharing personal mental health lived experience versus other types of lived experience. Service-users indicated that personal mental health lived experience was the most helpful disclosure topic, was valued when disclosed by all types of qualified practitioner, but it was shared least often. Practitioners who rate disclosure as helpful may be more reflective than practitioners who rate disclosure as unhelpful. Practitioners may be deterred from disclosing by a range of pressures, including risk of negative disclosure effects; adherence to therapeutic models; negative judgements from colleagues; pre-qualifying training; and perceived direction from professional codes of conduct and ethics. Despite perceived risks associated with hypothetical disclosure, most practitioners disclosed to some extent. Respondents gave almost 500 examples of real life disclosures which were almost exclusively helpful. It is recommended that practitioners are afforded greater autonomy, respect and permission to make decisions about disclosure without fear of judgment about professionalism. Training and guidance may be beneficial to help practitioners make best use of disclosures in statutory mental health service delivery.
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Murphy, K. "Recovery-orientation in mental health services." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2012. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/11184/.
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Policy initiatives are calling for mental health services to change their ways of working to prioritising the promotion of service users’ personal recovery. This requires a major re-negotiation of working practices and the relationship between service users and staff/services and their respective social positions. Preliminary research has shown that change has been problematic. The present study aimed to explore the construction of recovery and the positioning of service users and staff during the adoption of recovery-oriented practices in a community support and recovery team. Transcripts of two rounds of focus groups with service users (n=9) and staff (n=5) held six months apart, service user care plans and Recovery Star notes were analysed using a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. The study found that recovery was constructed as clinical/medical and personal recovery, at different times and in tension with each other. These constructions positioned service users as dependent, passive and hopeless or empowered and hopeful, and staff as helpless or facilitative. It was also apparent that a discourse of personal recovery was not available to service users. Staff oscillated between the constructions of recovery as medical and personal resulting in different subject positions and opportunities for action. The study concluded that adopting a recovery-orientation in services should lead to service users being positioned as more influential in decisions about their treatment and modes of support from the service, and services less likely to dictate their treatment. However, this can only happen if the recovery-orientation constitutes a widely shared discourse with all its assumptions and associated practices. The problematic aspects of the medical discourse and how it can position people socially and how those positions impact on the potential for personal recovery needs to be highlighted.
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Baker, Stephanie. "Staff and service user experiences of forensic mental health services." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/90135/.
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This thesis consists of three chapters. Chapter one is a systematic review of the qualitative literature examining the experiences of clinicians working in mental health services with forensic service users (FSU). Following systematic searches and a process of quality assessment, a total of 14 articles were included and their findings were systematically compared. Staff members experienced both positive and negative emotional responses to their work, there are conflicting aspects to their role and additional challenges within the organisational context. Implications for clinical practice and further research are discussed. Chapter two uses Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to consider the experiences of FSUs diagnosed with Personality Disorder (PD) in Forensic Services and the meaning given to recovery within their accounts. The findings discuss the disempowered position of FSU participants and suggest that feeling safe within relationships in their environment is important for those with this diagnosis. There was evidence in their accounts of attempts to establish new identities but there also appeared to be multiple barriers to this. Chapter three offers a reflective account of the researcher’s experience of carrying out this study. It demonstrates the reflexive strategies used that allowed the competing subjective roles alongside that of ‘researcher’, to be examined and their influence on the research process explored.
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Jormfeldt, Henrika. "Dimensions of Health among Patients in Mental Health Services." Doctoral thesis, Lund University, Sweden, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-16873.
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Empirical studies focusing on the subjective experience of health among patients in contact with the mental health services are rare and most questionnaires are based on a medical model that emphasizes objectively observed disease-oriented health indicators. In studies I and II perceptions of the concept of health among patients and nurses in mental health services were explored and described using a phenomenographic approach. The perceptions and description categories that emerged from these studies were transformed into a number of items forming a questionnaire intended to measure subjectively experienced health among patients in mental health services. In study III, a randomly selected sample was used to test the psychometric properties of the new Health Questionnaire. A factor analysis revealed three factors labelled Autonomy, Social Involvement and Comprehensibility. The purpose of study IV was to examine the construct validity of the Health Questionnaire. The hypothesis was that subjectively experienced health would be positively associated to self-esteem, empowerment and quality of life, and negatively associated to psychiatric symptoms, perceived stigmatization experiences and perceived attitudes of devaluation and discrimination. This hypothesis was mainly confirmed insofar that overall health was positively correlated to self-esteem, empowerment and quality of life and negatively correlated to symptoms, attitudes of devaluation and discrimination and rejection experiences. The results of this thesis show that health is more than just an absence of disease and support a focus on health promotion interventions in mental health care.Medicine doktorsexamen
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Sandbulte, Natalie J. "Rural communities and mental health care." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p088-0180.
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Mitchell, Penelope Fay. "Mental health care roles and capacities of non-medical primary health and social care services : an organisational systems analysis /." Connect to thesis, 2007. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00003854.
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Ohaeri, Frances Ahunna. "Parental satisfaction with child mental health services." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3343.
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The purpose of this study was to identify to what degree specific factors influence the level of satisfaction experienced by foster parents whose foster children are recieving mental health services from agencies that they have been referred to by a Coming of Age Foster Family Agency.
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Crepaz-Keay, David. "Effective mental health service user involvement : establishing a consensus on indicators of effective involvement in mental health services." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2014. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13932/.
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Mental health service user involvement had been UK government policy since the early 1990s. This dissertation explored the current state of policy and practice in mental health service user involvement by reviewing peer reviewed literature. A number of potential indicators of effective involvement were drawn from the literature. A discrepancy was found between policy and practice and the concept of indicators of effective involvement was proposed to support the process of enabling practice to develop to match policy expectations. A number of approaches to developing indicators were explored, with the explicit aim of introducing greater mental health service user ownership of the concept of effective involvement. In order to ensure both broad engagement and a degree of consensus, the Delphi process was chosen. An expert panel of mental health service users from England was recruited against a person specification co-developed with the National Survivor User Network (NSUN, an England wide, national network led by and for mental health service users). The 38 panel members represented a spread of ages and came from every region of the country. They have experience of and expertise in involvement at a strategic, operational and individual level. The panel completed two rounds of a Delphi process using an online tool. The panel reached consensus on 21 indicators of effective mental health service user involvement. There was a clear preference for collaborative involvement where service users and professionals worked together in a partnership that was as equal as possible. The chosen indicators have already influenced a number of international, national and local initiatives and have been used to support the development national standards for service user involvement in England.
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Iveson, Claire. "From primary care to mental health services:." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490634.
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Beecham, Jennifer Kate. "Community mental health services : resources and costs." Thesis, University of Kent, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319222.
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Rodriguez, Adriana. "Stakeholder Views on Children’s Mental Health Services." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2891.
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Identification of evidence-based treatments (EBTs) has been an important development; however recently, some shortcomings of the approach have been highlighted. These complexities have led to a surge in transportability research in mental health services science with goals of identifying needed strategies to encourage the adoption of innovations. The mental health system ecological (MHSE) model is an approach necessary to assist with closing this gap effectively as it integrates mental health contexts: client-level, provider-level, intervention-specific, service delivery, organizational, and service system characteristics. The aim of this study is to use the MHSE model to examine perspectives of mental health stakeholders on their needs. Data consists of qualitative transcripts from parent, therapist, and administrator interviews/focus groups. Mixed methods were used to develop and analyze codes according to the MHSE model. Results suggested that stakeholder groups mentioned needs relevant to the group of interest and thus have implications for future dissemination efforts.
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McGill, Fox Eileen. "Mental health services and late-onset depression." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2361.
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Belt, Leslie Marie, and Leslie Paul Schellbach. "Perceptions of mental health services among marines." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3141.
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Soto, Sally Alejandra. "Utilization of Mental Health Services Among Hispanics." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/359.
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In the United States, Hispanics have the same prevalence of mental illness as any other group however researchers have found that they are less likely to seek mental health services. This population’s lack of mental health utilization is due to various barriers hindering the population’s need for help, a substantial for social work practitioners. To better understand the factors that lead up to that, the current study explored and identified perceptions toward seeking and receiving mental health services among Hispanic members. Using a qualitative data collection, ten participants were interviewed to elicit their perceptions about mental health services ranging from what they believed addressed their lack of seeking services and what they thought about services. Data analysis revealed five core themes among the participants’ responses: Closeness to Family as a reason for people not seeking professional help. Another theme found was environment as a reason for Mental Illness making them feel that there is no need to seek services since they can simply remove the environmental stressor and the illness will seize to exist. Existing support systems were found such as involvement in church as a form of therapy, they talked about their faith providing them a form of support for stressors. Shared culture was a theme that was found to be a necessity for therapy, they felt they did not seek services because they felt mental health practitioners would not validate their culture. The final theme was access and that theme encompassed : not knowing mental health services existed in their community, to lack of Spanish speaking clinicians. The recognition of these themes could potentially guide social work practitioners’ when they are trying to engage the Hispanic community to receive mental health services. Social workers can be aware of the obstacles toward engaging this population into professional therapy, by having an understanding of what they believe about therapy and helping to alleviate or use some of those perceptions as a form of engagement and validating existing strengths that the population has causing them to feel professional services are not needed.
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Kipping, Cheryl Joan. "Stress and coping in mental health nurses." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/stress-and-coping-in-mental-health-nurses(233e7fff-f064-48c0-b626-4ff18eef9e40).html.
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Pang, Pui-yan Helen. "An exploratory study of mental health services in Guangzhou /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13117105.
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White, Bradley Patrick. "Mental Health and Mental Health Treatment Experiences of Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons:." Thesis, Boston College, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109141.
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Thesis advisor: Susan Kelly-WeederBackground: Stigma, discrimination, and victimization are common occurrences in the lives of TGGD persons (e.g. non-binary, genderqueer, agender, and other non-cisgender identities) in the U.S., including occurrences in healthcare settings. Additionally, TGGD people in the U.S. experience numerous disparities related to physical health, mental health, substance use, and health risk behaviors. Suicide prevalence data provide the strongest and most urgent indication that healthcare organizations, and mental health providers specifically, are not optimally meeting the needs of this marginalized, at-risk population. TGGD persons have experiences of stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings, and these experiences are directly associated with provider behaviors, staff cultural competence, and institutional policies/practices. Minority Stress Theory suggests that experiences of stigma are directly linked to health outcomes and health disparities. It also suggests disparities may be mitigated by one’s internal coping skills and by level of support available from affirming others. Purpose: This dissertation’s research sought to better understand the relationship between stigma/discrimination and sexual/gender minority (SGM) population health and to better understand the experiences of TGGD persons who receive mental health services in the United States. Therefore, this dissertation begins to address this critical need and fill the gap in science. Three discrete manuscripts are proposed to fully explicate three concepts: 1) How state-level policies may affect SGM mental health (a secondary data analysis); 2) A comprehensive understanding of TGGD persons’ mental healthcare experiences (an integrative review); and 3) TGGD persons’ inpatient mental healthcare experiences (a qualitative study). Methods: First, we conducted a secondary data analysis examining state-level inclusivity for SGM populations, and relationships with indicators of mental health and health risk behaviors in those states; we sought to determine whether and to what extent there is a relationship between states’ SGM policies and practices, and the mental health and health risk behaviors of those states’ SGM residents. Second, we conducted an integrative review examining the mental health treatment experiences of TGGD adults; we sought to synthesize and characterize the existing health literature regarding the mental health experiences of TGGD adults. Third, we conducted a qualitative descriptive study examining the inpatient mental health and substance disorder treatment experiences of TGGD adults; we sought to better understand the inpatient mental health and/or substance treatment experiences of TGGD persons and to identify and characterize facilitators of/barriers to gender-affirming care in inpatient mental health and/or substance treatment settings. Results: In Chapter Two of this dissertation, an ecological secondary analysis of the BRFSS data set showed statistically significant relationships between LGBTQ persons’ state of residence and self-reported mental health symptoms and risk behaviors of the LGBTQ persons who live there. Restrictive state policy environments were shown to function as a distal stress factor and inclusive state policy environments were shown to function as a resilience factor. In Chapter Three of this dissertation, integrative review results suggest that TGGD persons experience incidents of stigma and discrimination in mental health treatment settings. In Chapter Four of this dissertation, participants reported both stigmatizing aspects and welcoming/affirming aspects of inpatient mental health/substance treatment experiences. Conclusions: This dissertation explored the mental health of TGGD persons through a Minority Stress Theory conceptual framework, including potential distal stress factors, proximal stress factors, and resiliency factors. This program of research has made substantial and meaningful contributions towards an enhanced understanding of TGGD mental health experiences, sources of TGGD stigma, and sources of coping/resiliency. In each chapter, findings suggested the presence of MST concepts of distal stress factors, proximal stress factors, and resiliency factors. Nursing remains underrepresented in health literature, and dissertation results highlight ample opportunities to advance TGGD population health through nursing practice, nursing education, nursing scholarship, and nursing policy
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Senior, Jane. "The development of prison mental health services based on a community mental health model." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:85467.
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Eldridge, Sarah Marie. "The Barriers To Mental Health Services: How Facility Factors Impact Perceived Barriers To Mental Health Services In Nursing Facilities." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1409246124.
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Goldberg, Looney Lisa. "Military Service Members’ and Veterans’ Preferred Approach to Mental Health Services." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3608.
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Mental health services are greatly underutilized by military service members and veterans. Among the reasons for this underutilization is that the services offered may not be a good fit for the specific problems facing service members/veterans and/or their families. The current study presented service members with descriptions of several approaches to treatment and asked them to indicate the likelihood of using each. Service members indicated the highest likelihood for using self-directed services, followed by individual treatment with a professional. They reported being least likely to use group approaches. These results may inform decisions about the implementation and dissemination of information about existing and new services.
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Miller, James P. "Analysis of inpatient psychiatric hospital diversion projects in Pennsylvania." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1993. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1993.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2951. Abstract precedes thesis as 4 preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 75).
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Palmer-Erbs, Jung Victoria Katherine. "Interactive competence and mental health service utilization among the severely mentally ill." Thesis, Boston University, 1992. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/34649.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityPLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
The American Psychiatric Association criteria for differential psychiatric diagnoses (DSM III-R) do not exhaust the list of socially problematic behaviors displayed by the mentally ill. The extent to which such behaviors influence a person's "career" as a deinstitutionalized patient is the major topic of this study. Fiscal crises and changing public commitments have reduced support to those with severe mental illness who are deinstitutionalized, increasing the importance of understanding how degrees of competence at activities of daily living and the extent of socially problematic behaviors affect their participation in the community. The concept Interactive Competence was developed on the basis of the writer's clinical experience and a review of the literature on community adjustment of persons with severe mental illness. The concept characterizes the social functioning of persons diagnosed as mentally ill, and includes demonstration of self-care (ADL) skills and self-management skills (trouble in relationships). Secondary analysis was performed on data from a 1984 probability sample of clients in Community Support Programs for seriously mentally ill adults. Factor analysis reduced items in the original instrument, The Uniform Client Data Instrument, to scales measuring Interactive Competence. Only persons with the diagnosis of Schizophrenia or Affective Disorders were studied (n=824 of 1053), excluding diagnoses which were diverse in nature and infrequent in occurrence. Bivariate correlation and regression techniques were used to test the major hypotheses: 1) Schizophrenics demonstrate less Interactive Competence than those with the diagnosis of Affective Disorder; 2) the greater the chronicity (length of time in the social role as a patient from point of first diagnosis) the less Interactive Competence; 3) lower level of Interactive Competence is associated with a lower level of mental health service utilization. Monitoring Interactive Competence self-care (ADL) skills and selfmanagement skills (trouble in relationships) provides new insights about the service utilization of the severely mentally ill and their families. Schizophrenics had less the Interactive Competence than those with Affective Disorders; those with lower scores on Interactive Competence used more services; family involvement influenced clients' use of crisis assistance services and urgent care services.
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Muga, Florence Adhiambo. "Community mental health in Kenya : an improbable dream?" Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263918.
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Prior, Pauline Mary. "Mental health policy in Northern Ireland 1921-1991." Thesis, University of York, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306559.
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D'Antonio, Pamela L. "Deinstitutionalization and its implications on mental health emergency services in Berks County." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1993. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1993.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2937. Abstract precedes thesis title page as [2] preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-61).
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Foster, Juliet L. "The social representations of mental illness held by clients of the mental health services." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270929.
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Woodbridge-Dodd, Kim. "A discursive study of how mental health social workers constructed their professional selves within the context of National Health Service mental health services." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2017. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/9721/.
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Since the 1990s there have been continued drives in England to integrate National Health Services and Local Authorities’ social care within a single mental health service, with the aim of bringing about improvements in health and social care (Local Government Association et al., 2016). This is underpinned by the belief that through bringing the different professional health (such as psychiatrists and mental health nurses) and social care disciplines together, people in need will have a single point of access to a range of skills and knowledge, that no one system could deliver alone (Cooper, 2017). However, the very unique professional approaches that have been stated as the reason to place social workers in NHS Mental Health Services have been the ones that mental health social workers have struggled to hold onto in this setting (Allen et al., 2016). This is a thesis of how mental health social workers constructed a professional self within the context of the NHS mental health services. I used a Foucauldian approach and the notion that professional identity is a socially constructed sense of self, produced from discourses, subject positions and a process of subjectification. Twelve social workers were interviewed; seven mental health social workers and five social workers who held positions as managers or educationalists. I asked social workers questions about their professional identity, their answers provided a rich source of ‘talk’ that I could analyse using Parker’s steps to discourse analysis. The findings discuss the nature of social work as a profession, generic and specialist social work, and suggests a typology of subject positions drawn from the mental health social workers’ discourses. These findings provide a useful resource to support critical social work practice, both as an example of how Foucauldian theory and concepts can be a rich toolbox for understanding practice in complex settings, and through the use of the typology of subject positions as a source to prompt self-reflection for mental health social workers’ practice.
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Morris, Desiree Lin. "MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTION: DOES AN EXPEDITED PROCESS INCREASE ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/640.
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Child maltreatment negatively impacts physical, emotional, and the health and well-being of a person, often with lifelong implications. The importance of this study derives from the very necessity of mental health services for children who have suffered trauma. Children’s Assessment Centers (CAC) assess and refer children who have experienced abuse to a therapist in the community. This study examines the use of an enhanced referral process used to connect some CAC clients more quickly to therapeutic services in the community. The study examined whether children who received this expedited referral service were more likely than children who received the standard referral process to see a therapist within three months. The study used data provided by one CAC in California. The CAC provided information on clients who received either the expedited or standard referral process within a 3-month period in 2017. The researcher then contacted the clients’ caregivers to ask whether the child saw a therapist within 3-months of the child’s referral from the CAC. The study used a Chi-square test to analyze whether children who received an expedited referral to mental health services were more likely than children who received the standard referral to receive mental health services within three months. Results indicated no statistically significant difference in access to mental health services for the two groups. However, during data collection, the researcher learned that some children were already engaged in therapy at the time they received the referral, perhaps rendering the referral unnecessary. Implications for social work practice, policy, and research are discussed.
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Lee, John. "Purchasing, providing and participating in mental health services." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/336986.
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This thesis examines the implications of the changes introduced by the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 for mental health services. It focuses on two main issues. Firstly, the impact on mental health services of the 'market' system of purchasers and providers introduced by the 1990 Act. Second.ly, the extent to which the 1990 changes had led to any increase in user participation and involvement in the planning and delivery of psychiatric services. Analysis of the existing theoretical literature found that there had been little research which focused on the specific implications of health care 'markets' for mental health services. In addition, much of the work on the development of psychiatry had not focused on the role of the local context in influencing the nature of mental health service provision. In this thesis these issues are explored through a case study of the mental health services of one English county. Semistructured, qualitative interviews were und.ertaken with managers, professionals and individuals in purchaser, provider and voluntary sector organisations. People using community mental health services in the county were also interviewed. This contrasts with many previous studies which have tended to concentrate exclusively on users of in-patient services. The study found that local circumstances played a significant role in the relationships between those purchasing, providing and participating in mental health services. The imminent closure of a large Victorian psychiatric hospital and the uncertainty about which services would replace it had been a source of tension between the newly formed purchaser and provider organisations in the county under study. The lack of any strong existing groups in the local area representing users of mental health services was also significant. It meant that increased user participation in the county after the 1990 Act was reliant on initiatives by managers and professionals rather than organised pressure from user groups and users themselves. The variety of different local mental health agencies purchasing and providing mental health services in the county called for a degree of cooperation between organisations which conflicted with the competition encouraged by the 'market' system introduced by the 1990 Act. The focus, first, on psychiatric services in the examination of 'markets' and, second, the importance of the local context in mental health service development provides the basis for the study's contribution to theoretical and policy debates both about the 1990 Act and psychiatric services in general.
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Yankovskyy, Shelly. "Mental health policy and services in Tampa, Florida." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001176.
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Riebe, Jason D. "The provision of mental health services in schools." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005riebej.pdf.
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Chong, Susan. "Chinese women's experiences of accessing mental health services." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42184.
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Research worldwide has found the existence of factors adversely influencing Chinese communities’ access to mental health services. Stigma, shame and ‘loss of face’ have played a major role in the underutilization of mental health services by Chinese communities. However, there is little research available in Canada that examines mental health and the general adult Chinese population, particularly gender effects. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine Chinese women’s experiences of access to mental health services in an urban context in British Columbia. This study was to seek the perspective of Chinese women and providers as to what were the challenges to and facilitators of Chinese women’s access to mental health services. Interpretive description was used as the research method for this study and enabled an analytic framework formulated from existing knowledge in the field. This assisted in developing knowledge about Chinese women’s illness experiences related to access of mental health services. Purposive sampling was used. In-depth interviews with 7 Chinese women, 2 non Chinese women and 2 health care providers were conducted and the data analyzed. Five themes emerged through the data: 1) stigma and mental illness, 2) social supports: connections with families and friends and the double edged sword, 3) language and access, 4) lack of coordinated, seamless care and the intersection with mental health literacy and 5) health care providers and peer support: navigating mental health services. From these findings, several recommendations were made to reduce stigma and improve access to mental health service. Nurses need to provide culturally competent care, for example, by using professional interpreters when appropriate. In addition, nurses need to be aware of mental health services and other relevant resources inside and outside of the health care system. Nurses are in a good position to provide education to increase mental health literacy and reduce stigma. Also, nurses can advocate and collaborate with community agencies, policy decision-markers and other health care professionals to enhance access to services.
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Burbach, Frank Robert. "Developing systemically-oriented secondary care mental health services." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1599.
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Research has indicated that offering support and services for people who experience mental health problems and their families is a complex and contested area. Despite the controversies surrounding therapeutic interventions with families, it has now been recognised that relatives and other supporters of people with mental health problems should be included in their care. Whole- family interventions and partnership working with carers and families is now central to secondary care UK mental health policies and clinical practice guidelines. However, for many families/ carers this remains an aspiration rather than a reality. The way in which we successfully developed family focused mental health practice, as well as specialist family interventions (FI) for people who have been given a diagnosis of psychosis, has therefore aroused considerable interest. The Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has adopted a Strategy to Enhance Working Partnerships with Carers and Families, developed best practice guidance and has established two complementary workforce development projects - the development of specialist family intervention services and the widespread training of mental health staff to create a ‘triangle of care’ with service users and their families. This has resulted in widespread adoption of systemically informed, ‘whole-family’ practice. In response to the widespread difficulties experienced following other staff- training initiatives we developed specialist family interventions (FI) services by means of an innovative one-year course delivered in partnership with Plymouth University. This training initiative has been widely acknowledged for its novel integration of psycho-educational and systemic approaches and the effective in-situ, multi-disciplinary service development model. An advantage of this approach is that by the end of the course a local FI Service has been established and staff experience fewer difficulties in applying their new skills than people trained in other programmes. We then ensure the continued development of clinical skills by means of a service structure that emphasises on-going supervision. Regular audits of the service and in-depth research studies clearly indicate that the service is effective and highly valued by users. Our ‘cognitive-interactional’ approach, which integrates systemic therapy with psychosocial interventions (individual- and family-CBT) within a collaborative therapeutic relationship, enables us to meet the needs of families in a flexible, tailored manner. The FI teams are able to deliver early interventions for people with first episode psychosis, as well as meeting the NICE guidelines for people with longstanding symptoms. Recognising that many families do not require formal family interventions/ therapy, we also have been designing ‘stepped-care’ family intervention services. We have developed, and extensively evaluated, short training packages to enhance working partnerships with families throughout our mental health services. We have used this three-day package to train a range of community and inpatient teams. We have also encouraged family- inclusive practice with the establishment of a trustwide steering group, practice guidelines and the establishment of ‘family liaison’ posts to facilitate family meetings on inpatient units, as part of the assessment process. Both training initiatives explicitly focus on developing systemic thinking, by integrating CBT and systemic therapy. The involvement of families/ carers in the design and delivery of both training initiatives is also crucial.
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Mann, Kelly. "Looked after adolescents' experience of mental health services." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/14331.
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The main aim of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of looked after adolescents' views of what help they needed for their mental health difficulties and their experience of the mental health services that are currently available to them. It was hoped that this investigation would provide ideas to improve current service provision. Semi-structured interviews were used to interview six females aged 13-17 years from a Looked After Children (LAC) Team, which is part of a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was employed to analyse the accounts generated in the interviews. The results indicated a number of mental health as well as social difficulties for the participants. They described a variety of emotional and behavioural difficulties, which included experiencing depression, self-harming behaviour and eating difficulties. Relationships also seemed to be an area of difficulty that featured for this sample of young people. With regards to mental health services, the participants' talked about having a positive experience, feeling supported, their relationship with their therapist and their ambivalence about receiving services. Whilst positive experiences were discussed the participants' were also able to reflect on negative aspects of the service, and consequently ideas for service improvement were generated.
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Hurford, Grace. "Power and politics in UK mental health services." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369239.
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Majumder, Pallab. "Unaccompanied refugee minors' experiences of mental health services." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31991.
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Background: The current evidence shows that unaccompanied refugee minors have poorer adjustment and greater psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Despite the availability of some treatment options, there have been widespread concerns about poor access and utilization of mental health services in this population. Very limited research evidence is available on their perceptions and experiences of treatment for mental illness and mental health services. Research aims: The aims of this research were to explore the unaccompanied refugee minors’ experiences of mental health service, the factors contributing to the experiences and their perceived ways of improving these services. Methods: A clinical sample of 15 unaccompanied refugee minors and their carers were recruited from consecutive referrals to a specialist Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) team for looked after children. Young people and their carers were interviewed using a semi structured interview schedule. Interviews were audio taped, transcribed verbatim and analysed by a thematic framework. Results: The main emerging themes related to participants’ understanding of mental health, experiences of services and interventions, and suggestions for future improvement. Young persons’ limited knowledge of mental health services, lack of trust and fear of stigma were perceived as main factors affecting their engagement. They preferred not to talk about their past at this stage, but rather expected clinicians to help them address their present needs. Activity-based interventions were favoured over talking treatments. Strategies to engage the young persons, and connecting with other agencies and communities were recommended by the participants. Conclusions: The findings provide support for the role that preparation, engagement, and communication between agencies and communities may play in the unaccompanied refugee minors’ experience. These findings are discussed in the context of previous evidence. Clinical and service implications as well as recommendations for future research are considered.
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Quinn, Fenella. "Primary school-based mental health services : head-teachers' perspectives." Thesis, Regent's University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.646044.
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It is generally reported that around one in 10 children in the UK today suffer from some kind of mental health problem. It is of course compulsory for all children between the ages of five and 16 to partake in a certain amount of education, which in the vast majority of cases means school. Head teachers are statutorily obliged to safeguard the children in their care, which also means addressing their physical and mental health. Therefore schools are growing in their importance as sites of mental health care interventions. There is little or no published research which explores the phenomenon of on site mental health provision from the perspective of the head teachers, in terms of how it impacts them. For this study, five head teachers of mixed sex primary schools were interviewed about the mental health service that they had commissioned for their school. All five participants employed the same service. Using the interpretive phenomenological approach to analyse these interviews, five major themes were discovered: ambivalence towards the mental health service; mixed feelings towards mental health issues; that the mental health service helped alleviate heads’ sense of anxiety; the paradoxical nature of head teachers’ intersubjective experience; and that while head teachers like to describe themselves as part of a collective identity, they locate themselves as individuals when they feel the need to assert power. It is hoped that these findings might aid providers of mental health services to schools and children by providing a more sophisticated understanding both of head teachers’, and therefore commissioners’, anxieties and positive feelings about such services.
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Birmingham, Luke Stephen. "The mental health of newly remanded prisoners, the prison reception health screen and the resulting management of mental disorder at Durham prison." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/600.
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Recent cross-sectional studies have confirmed that the prevalence of mental disorder in English prisons is high but they provide little insight into the fate of the mentally disordered in prison. This thesis concentrates on a longitudinal study of mental disorder in 569 unconvicted adult male remand prisoners received into Durham prison between 1 October 1995 and 30 April 1996. Subjects were interviewed at reception by psychiatric researchers and monitored throughout the remand period. The data collected was used to establish the prevalence of mental disorder and substance misuse at reception into prison, effectiveness of prison reception screening, number of mentally disordered subjects identified and referred for psychiatric assessmentn, ature of psychiatric interventions, and final disposal of all subjects. Additional research was undertaken at Durham to evaluate health care provision at this prison, and, in order to comment on the generalisability of the findings, health care facilities at other prisons in England and Wales were investigated. More than a quarter of subjects at Durham prison were suffering from mental disorder. Serious disorders were especially prevalent and one in twenty remands was acutely psychotic. Drug and alcohol misuse was the norm. More than half of our subjects received current substance abuse or dependence diagnoses. Prison reception screening failed to identify nearly 80% of subjects with mental disorder, including 75% of those with acute psychosis. The treatment needs of the majority of mentally disordered subjects were overlooked in prison. Just over one quarter of mentally disordered subjects were referred for a psychiatric assessment. Contact with psychiatric services was frequently hampered by the prison regime and the actions of the courts. This resulted in acutely psychotic prisoners being released without adequate treatment or follow-up. Help for prisoners with drug and alcohol related problems was minimal. Detoxification regimes were insufficiently prescribed leaving the majority of subjects addicted to opiates, benzodiazepines and alcohol at risk of serious withdrawal. Inadequate resources, a lack of suitably trained health care staff, low morale and staff sickness hampered the delivery of effective health care at Durham prison. However, staff attitudes, institutionalised practices and negative responses from prisoners also made a significant contribution. Further inquiry indicates that Durham. prison is not unique in these respects. Problems of a similar nature are endemic in the Prison Health Service. Indeed, when the history of this organisation is traced it is apparent that such difficulties have plagued it throughout its existence.
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Rhodes, Anne E. "Gender, type of mental disorder and use of outpatient mental health services." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0002/NQ41293.pdf.
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Hemingway, C. A. "The regulation of women detained under mental health legislation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264817.
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Goodwin, Simon Christopher. "Community care : the reform of the mental health services?" Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387717.
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彭蓓欣 and Pui-yan Helen Pang. "An exploratory study of mental health services in Guangzhou." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249048.
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Tucker, Ian. "Deterritorialising mental health : unfolding service user experience." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/5445.
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Mental health has a long history of proving to be a tough concept to define. Multiple forms of knowledge and representation seek to inform as to the nature of mental health, all contributing to the production of immense complexity as to the experience of living with mental health difficulties. This thesis sets out to explore this, by getting as close as possible to mental health service users' actual experiences. A range of forms of knowledge that pertain to inform as to service users' experiences are explored, prior to analysing a corpus of interviews with service users. These are analysed through the development of a Deleuzian Discourse Analysis. Service users' experiences are analysed in terms of the relation between discursive and non-discursive factors, which include forms of mainstream psychiatric discursive practice, such as the application of diagnostic criteria and administration of treatments, along with how such practices are experienced in non-discursive dimensions of service user embodiment and space. The challenges facing service users are seen to operate around identity and control in relation to forms of psychiatric knowledge, along with presenting particular problems with regard to how user embodiment is felt, primarily in relation to psychiatric medication, and how these are driven into the production of service user spaces, i.e. day centres. Finally, a politics of affectivity is offered, as a way to unfold the complexity of service user experience, and to emphasise the existence and potential for change that can be gained through deterritorialising mental health.
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Duffy, Marina. "The impact of Ireland’s current Mental Health Policy on the profile of community mental Health Services." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10861.
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RESUMO: Em 2006, foi aprovada uma nova política governamental para a saúde mental intitulada “Uma Visão para a Mudança”, a qual está neste momento no sétimo ano de implementação. A política descreve um enquadramento para o desenvolvimento e promoção da saúde mental positiva para toda a Comunidade e para a prestação de serviços acessíveis, baseados na comunidade, serviços especializados para pessoas com doença mental. A implementação da política e o tornar a “Vision for Change” uma realidade têm sido problemáticos, com críticas consideráveis por parte dos intervenientes, relativas à lenta e desconexa implementação.
Este estudo fornece informação sobre as características dos serviços de três importantes tipos de instituições de saúde mental comunitária a nível nacional, nomeadamente Hospitais de Dia, Centros de Dia e residências comunitárias operantes 24 horas. A pesquisa analisa objetivos e funções, perfis dos pacientes, atividades terapêuticas, a eficácia das redes de comunicação e beneficia da perspectiva dos funcionários sobre o que mudou no terreno ao longo dos últimos sete anos.
As questões identificadas a partir das características dos três serviços dizem respeito a todos. Os participantes indicaram que o ethos da recuperação parece ter alcançado um papel mais central no tratamento do paciente na comunidade mas reconheceram que o desafio de integrar os princípios de recuperação na prática clínica se mantém presente. Parece ser reconhecida a importância da planificação do cuidado individual nos serviços comunitários e os entrevistados indicaram que existe um empenho para garantir o envolvimento do usuário do serviço. Há diferenças entre os „pontos de vista do pessoal‟ e os „pontos de vista dos representantes‟ sobre uma série de aspetos da prestação de serviços.
Este é o primeiro estudo irlandês deste género a examinar a prestação de serviços das três principais instituições comunitárias de saúde mental num só estudo. Estes serviços representam um enorme investimento em recursos, quer a nível monetário, quer humano. O estudo examinou os desafios e as questões fundamentais que lhe são aplicáveis e que têm impacto nestes três tipos de prestação de serviços. Também forneceu informações sobre os elementos de mudança positiva, os quais se começam a focar lentamente na prestação do serviço, assim como na importância da centralidade do utilizador do serviço e na promoção de um ethos da recuperação.----------ABSTRACT: In 2006, a new Government policy for mental health “A Vision for Change” was endorsed and is currently in the seventh year of implementation. The policy describes a comprehensive framework for building and fostering positive mental health across the entire community and for providing accessible, community based, specialist services for people with mental illness. The implementation of the policy and turning “Vision for Change” into reality has been problematic with considerable criticism from stakeholders concerning slow and disjointed implementation.
This study provides information on three key community mental health service settings, namely Day Hospitals, Day Centres and 24 Hour Community Residences at a national level. The research looks at aims and functions, patient profiles, therapeutic activities, effectiveness of key communication networks and gains an insight from staff on what has changed on the ground over the past seven years.
Issues identified from the three service settings pertain to all. Participants indicated that the recovery ethos appears to have moved to a more central role in patient care in the community but acknowledged that the challenge of integrating recovery principles in clinical practice remains present. The importance of individual care planning appears to be recognised in community services and respondents indicated that efforts are being made to ensure service user involvement. There were differences between „staff views‟ and „advocate views‟ on a number of aspects of service provision.
This is the first Irish study of its kind to examine service provision across the three main community mental health settings in one study. These services represent a huge investment in resources both on a monetary and human level. This study has examined the challenges and key issues which are applicable and impacting on all three types of service provision. It has also provided information on the elements of positive change, which are slowly embedding themselves in service provision such as the importance of the centricity of the service user and the promotion of a recovery ethos.
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Enriquez, Josue D. "LATINO MENTAL HEALTH: EXPLORING BARRIERS TOWARDS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AMONG THE LATINO COMMUNITY WITHIN SAN BERNARDINO." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/536.
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The research presented on this paper examined the impact that the number of barriers have towards the delay in getting treatment among the Latino population. Participants (N=31) at Family Solution Collaborative, answered questions presented to them via a self-administered questionnaire that contained questions that examined types of barriers and how they impact mental health services. An independent sample t-test was conducted assessing generation status and the sum of perceived barriers. A Pearson correlation, design was used, for the purpose of searching for a relationship between the number of years in the U.S. and age with the sum of perceived barriers. Results for all test conducted showed no significance between all variables. In conclusion, although findings for this study did not support past research it is important to address the limitations to continue to develop culturally appropriate programs to help reduce the disparity of Latinos within mental health services.