BBC Radio 4 have broadcast a podcast from author Horatio Clare detailing his experiences of being detained under the Mental Health Act.
Listen to Horatio’s story of being admitted into our inpatient services online. [first story on podcast]
This paper details a case study which explains how a woman with a mild learning disability was helped to confront overwhelming anxiety which she referred to as “the gremlin.” The client described how “the gremlin” was having an influence over her ability to manage in stressful situations and cope with change. A narrative approach was utilised which focussed on reducing the influence of “the gremlin.” . To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Idea To create a carer’s passport that provides details of the main carer and gives them greater access to assist in providing care. The carer’s passport opens up hospital wards to carers of patients living with Alzheimer’s or one of the other forms of dementia and has been adopted successfully at other hospitals.
Person-Centered Integrated Care (PC-IC) is believed to improve outcomes and experience for persons with multiple long-term and complex conditions. No broad consensus exists regarding how to capture the patient-experienced quality of PC-IC. Most PC-IC evaluation tools focus on care events or care in general. Building on others’ and our previous work, we outlined a 4-stage goal-oriented PC-IC process ideal: 1) Personalized goal setting 2) Care planning aligned with goals 3) Care delivery according to plan, and 4) Evaluation of goal attainment. We aimed to explore, apply, refine and operationalize this quality of care framework.
This study aims to provide effect size estimates of the impact of two cognitive rehabilitation interventions provided to patients with mild cognitive impairment: computerized brain fitness exercise and memory support system on support partners' outcomes of depression, anxiety, quality of life, and partner burden. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Positive Step North Somerset's psychological therapies (IAPT) service has helped more than 500 carers with therapy and support since launching three years ago.
The service is jointly run between our Trust and charity Second Step and is made up of 14 psychotherapists and 15 wellness advisors, providing psychological therapies for people with common mental health issues such as anxiety or panic, trauma, obsessions and depression.
Rates of re-traumatisation among mental ill-health patients have risen significantly over the past decade and clinical guidelines place mental health nurses at the heart of their care. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
To provide an update of recent studies of the incidence and impact of parental substance use disorders (SUDs) on children, and to identify effective treatment programs to assist parents with SUDs and their children.. MPFT staff can use the OVID link, or you can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
This report addresses service user and survivor views about ways of understanding madness and distress, but in particular about the potential of a social model.
Criticisms of a purely biomedical model for understanding mental illness (in which mental illness is assumed to exist as a disease with biomedical origins) have been around for some years now, dating at least as far back as the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1960s and 70s. Decades of research have failed to confirm biomedical explanations for mental illness (Bishop, 2014; Middleton, 2013; Thomas, 2013). However, the biomedical model appears to remain strong and well, dictating both the nature of our services and the research paradigm that dominates our evidence-based treatments (Faulkner, 2015).
Often absent from this debate are the voices of service users and survivors and this is where the strength of this report lies. In engaging with service users and survivors over a two-stage period, the authors have demonstrated that people living with mental distress are well able to enter the debate and engage with these complex issues.
People with mental health problems are often left behind, forgotten and excluded• Little is known or written from a service user perspective about experiences of psychiatry, mental health nursing, Mental Health Tribunals and alternative ap-proaches (such as counselling, peer support, psychological and recovery ap-proaches, cognitive behavioural therapy—CBT and creative/art/music/drama/horticultural/dance therapies)
Free access. An article in the UK article The Telegraph suggests that events in a person’s life can lead to mental illness (March 28, 2016 by Sarah Knapton, Science Editor, The Telegraph) Most of the information I have read about mental illness implies that mental illness is most often associated with genes, but this new information tells me that it should not be genetics getting all the research.
Recently, I thought of the UK article again when in my home town, a gunman, with seemingly no cause, opened fired and killed a police officer at the local bus station. I wondered what events in his life may have led to this horribly sad situation.
The article and the recent shooting caused me to reflect on what events in my own life might have led to my diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Open access. Most of patients with dementia are cared for by family members. Caring for people with dementia is challenging; approximately 30–55% of caregivers suffered from anxiety or depressive symptoms. A range of studies have shown that psychosocial interventions are effective and can improve caregivers’ quality of life, reduce their care burden, and ease their anxiety or depressive symptoms. However, information on the acceptability of these interventions, despite being crucial, is under-reported.
Journal of Family Psychology (Apr 11, 2019). DOI:10.1037/fam0000527
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at risk for poor couple relationship quality. The goal of the current study was to understand actor and partner associations between daily level of parenting stress and perceived couple interactions using a 14-day daily diary in 186 families of children with ASD. A comparison group of 182 families of children without a neurodevelopmental disability was included to determine if actor and partner associations differed in a context of child ASD.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The recovery process of a psychiatric patient is related to his primary informal caregiver's style of coping with stress. There is insufficient literature on validations of instruments that measure coping styles in this population. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
To explore the coping strategies used by affected family members of a relative with substance misuse. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
The Carers Hub is a single point of contact for carers and their families in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. This August they have organised Hub Clubs for adults and young carers across the region