Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock is setting out his ambition for every patient in the country to have access to social prescribing schemes on the NHS as readily as they do medical care.
Social prescribing involves helping patients to improve their health, wellbeing and social welfare by connecting them to community services. This can include activities such as art and singing classes.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Oct 10, 2019). DOI:10.1037/prj0000389
Objective: Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), an illness self-management intervention used internationally, enhances perceived recovery for adults with psychiatric disabilities, but the magnitude of positive change is modest at best. As part of a larger study about how adults with serious mental illness learn and use illness self-management strategies through WRAP, this paper reports on an investigation of the relationship between problem-solving and perceived recovery for WRAP users and addresses the question: To what extent is the degree of problem-solving confidence associated with the degree of perceived recovery for WRAP users? . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Sally McManus writes her debut elf blog on a recent national cohort study of multiple adverse outcomes following first discharge from psychiatric care.
A new NHS service has launched to help people with learning disabilities and/or autism moving back into the community from a forensic hospital.
The Forensic Outreach Liaison Service (FOLS) supports people aged 18 years and above who have a learning disability or autism (or both) that are at risk of or have come in to contact with the criminal justice system or been admitted to a secure hospital setting.
eople experiencing serious mental illness in Herefordshire will be helped to find work thanks to NHS-funded Employment Specialists.
NHS funding has been award to 2gether NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Landau, a central England-based charity located in Herefordshire, which supports people with barriers into work through a voluntary scheme.
A successful pilot scheme has already been running in the county, with it being rolled out fully in July.
Open access journal. Internet-based interventions can make self-management and recovery-oriented information and tools more accessible for people experiencing severe mental illness, including psychosis. The aim of this scoping review was to identify and describe emerging joint uses of these Internet-based interventions by service users experiencing psychosis and mental health workers. It also investigated how using these Internet-based interventions influenced interactions between service users and workers and whether recovery-oriented working practices were elicited.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (May 9, 2019). DOI:10.1037/prj0000365
Objective: People with mental illness frequently have trouble obtaining and keeping competitive employment and struggle with on-the-job performance. To address these issues, the manualized, group-based, 12-session Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Work Success (CBTw) intervention was developed and tested in an open trial. Although posttreatment work outcomes were promising, lasting effects associated with the intervention are unknown.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. Service providers throughout Europe have identified the need to define how high-quality community-based mental health care looks to organize their own services and to inform governments, commissioners and funders. In 2016, representatives of mental health care service providers, networks, umbrella organizations and knowledge institutes in Europe came together to establish the European Community Mental Health Services Provider (EUCOMS) Network. This network developed a shared vision on the principles and key elements of community mental health care in different contexts. The result is a comprehensive consensus paper, of which this position paper is an outline.
With this paper the network wants to contribute to the discussion on how to improve structures in mental healthcare, and to narrow the gap between evidence, policy and practice in Europe.
There is growing evidence to support recovery and rehabilitation services and interventions for people with severe mental illness (SMI). However, those from ethnic minority communities face inequitable outcomes and access to mental health services and poorer functional outcomes. This article reviews the evidence and discusses facilitators and barriers in the recovery journey of people with SMI from ethnic minority groups. Although there is limited evidence for specific interventions for ethnic minority patients, areas for future study and action are discussed.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (May 27, 2019). DOI:10.1037/prj0000368
Objective: The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a structured approach to illness self-management that is widely used within mental health services. This systematic review identifies, appraises, and meta-analyzes quantitative evidence from experimental or quasi-experimental comparison group designs for effects of WRAP on measures reflecting personal recovery and clinical symptomatology.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.