Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Jun 16, 2016).
Objective: The purposes of this research were to assess relationships between social support and objective and subjective recovery in a sample of adults with serious mental illness and to examine self-efficacy as a potential mediator of these relationships. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Jun 20, 2016).
Objective: Individuals living with serious mental illnesses are key stakeholders in user experience design and the development of the WorkingWell mobile app to enhance on-the-job follow-along support. In this study, Individual Placement and Support (IPS) consumers identify challenges in sustaining employment, provide data regarding their use of technology, and suggest technology-based solutions for coping on the job to inform app development. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Research has highlighted the importance of recovery as defined by the service user, and suggests a link to negative emotion, although little is known about the role of negative emotion in predicting subjective recovery.
Aims- To investigate longitudinal predictors of variability in recovery scores with a focus on the role of negative emotion. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Individual placement and support (IPS) is a vocational rehabilitation programme that was developed in the USA to improve employment outcomes for people with severe mental illness. Its ability to be generalised to other countries and its effectiveness in varying economic conditions remains to be ascertained.
Aims- To investigate whether IPS is effective across international settings and in different economic conditions. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The service is being delivered by a partnership between local health and social care providers to provide intensive community support for patients in Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham. The new community services have been commissioned by Central London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), together with the West London and Hammersmith & Fulham CCGs.
The ReFleCT service is a recovery focused, pre-discharge intervention which has improved and supports the transfer of service users’ ongoing care from mental health services to GP services.
ReFleCT is client-led and developed primarily for people with chronic mental health difficulties to improve their transition to GP care. Frontline staff identify what matters in terms of life goals, hopes and desires and that offers invaluable support to clients and multidisciplinary team staff during the transition.
Working with Anxiety is a new film exploring how anxiety affects the ability to work and carry out other day to day activities, and highlights key ways to aid recovery.
The treatment of patients with a severe mental disorder is generally not good enough. The aim of this article was to illustrate some alternative approaches for better understanding and treatment for the individual, besides seeing and interpreting the symptoms.
A music project that helps people with mental health issues has held its seventh annual event, the Back Door Music Project.
The Musical Madness scheme uses music to develop confidence, self-esteem, skills and interests, which helps service users on their journey to discharge and helps to tackle the stigma around mental health.
Over the last six months, service users from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Rehabilitation and High Support Directorate (RHSD), have written, recorded or selected music and poems to accompany a pop video which they filmed and edited.
Angela Glascott, College Coordinator said: “We are different to all other recovery colleges as we are entirely peer led. This makes us nationally unique within the NHS. Everyone who works here or delivers courses has lived experience. We deliver courses that people are personally invested in which gives a real sense of meaning.”
“All course facilitators and contributors offer their time for free, they do it because they have a passion and a real belief in recovery. Forming relationships heals, feeling connected heals. We are building a community of people in recovery. Everyone who comes here is courageous and we’re providing somewhere for people to feel safe.”
Tyneside Recovery College will become a hub for peer led opportunities. Approximately 150 people are participating in the courses, workshops and peer support groups that are provided by the Recovery College and its many partners in the third sector. Everyone who works there has their own experience of recovery and survival. Courses have been developed around what people have already found helpful in their own recovery.
Mersey Care NHS Trust have saved the historic Carnegie building at the former Walton Library and transformed it into the state-of-the-art ‘Life Rooms Walton’, a new centre for learning, recovery, health and wellbeing.
The stunning new centre has retained the historic exterior while the interior has been extensively refurbished into a state-of-the-art centre which will revolutionise the way people recover from and manage their mental health. It will also serve the wider community of Walton with a variety of new and exciting services that challenges stigma and promotes positive mental health and wellbeing.
Leading mental health trust Mersey Care have also retained some of the popular library services for the local community at the much-loved building on Evered Avenue, off Rice Lane, Walton, which was opened in 1911, with the £8,000 cost being paid by Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
The building has become available as part of Liverpool City Council’s reduction in library services and Michael Crilly, Mersey Care’s Director of Social Inclusion and Participation, said: “People have been scared they’d lose their library so it’s good to be able to reassure them that some of those services will be retained, including an electronic ordering service for books that are not in stock.”
Three patients from a mental health unit in Lincoln have completed their Level 3 Supervising Food Safety in Catering as part of a therapeutical programme offered by staff.
Charlotte, Jay and Adam all volunteer at Coffee Beanz - a non-profit café run by staff and patients from Discovery House, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s mental health rehabilitation unit.
A new ‘Recovery and Wellbeing College’ which sees people who have life experience of mental health support and mentor others in how to take care of themselves is being extended after proving a success.
Humber NHS Foundation Trust, which established the college, has pledged to continue funding for summer workshops and new courses in the autumn, with a view to running it long term, after courses have given ‘hope and inspiration’ to those in need of support.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s (CFT) Transport Team has commissioned Sunshine Mobile Valeting, part of the Brandon Trust, to help people with a learning disability gain access to paid employment.
Inpatients at Lime Walk Rehabilitation Unit have been constructing and decorating furniture to be displayed at Macclesfield’s Barnaby Festival later this week.
Chairs, tables, birdhouses and mosaics have all been created to be displayed at the local event. The group have also created more than 30 signs that will be placed around the town to advertise each exhibition.
The work is part of the event’s ‘Yardens Project’, hosted by community group Reach Out and Recover (ROAR) to showcase the work of a variety of local people recovering from mental health trauma, addiction or personal issues.
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) recently joined together with local charity The Bren Project, Cheshire West and Chester Council and Chester Constabulary to give people accessing mental health services the opportunity to refurbish and recycle a second hand bike, as part of a course to develop practical skills.
Remission is a common outcome of short-term trials and the main goal of acute and longterm treatment. The longitudinal stability of remission has rarely been investigated under naturalistic treatment conditions.
Early on in the implementation of personalisation reforms in social care, mental health stood out as a tricky customer, but with potential to benefit enormously from person-centred practice, recovery and personal budgets.
There’s now quite a bit of research, much of it covered in National Elf Service blogs, revealing more on the trickiness and benefits of personal budgets and recovery in mental health.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (May 12, 2016).
Objective: The overall aim of this article is to examine the self-defined role of romantic relationships, intimacy and sexuality in recovery from severe mental illness.
In the UK, concerns about safety and fragmented community mental health care led to the development of the care programme approach in England and care and treatment planning in Wales. These systems require service users to have a care coordinator, written care plan and regular reviews of their care. Processes are required to be collaborative, recovery-focused and personalised but have rarely been researched. We aimed to obtain the views and experiences of stakeholders involved in community mental health care and identify factors that facilitate or act as barriers to personalised, collaborative, recovery-focused care.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (May 5, 2016).
Objective: This study examined the impact of a Recovery College, an educational service model focusing specifically on health care to engage people’s hope, agency, and opportunities for recovery. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
This review focused specifically on goal striving (moving towards a goal) rather than goal setting and how the bridge between goal intentions and behaviour can be overcome.
The meta-analysis looked at the effect of if-then intentions on goal attainment on individuals with a clinical mental health diagnosis.
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This study examines the long-term effects of evidence-based supported employment services on three vocational outcomes: labor force participation, earnings, and attainment of Social Security Administration (SSA) nonbeneficiary status through suspension or termination of disability cash payments due to work (NSTW). Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
In the latest of a series of blogs on the NHS Learning Disability Employment Programme, dad Trevor Clower reflects on the positive impact it’s had on the life of his son, Scott
Spirituality has received increased attention in the psychiatric literature; however, it remains underexplored on a global level. Knowledge about spirituality of persons with schizophrenia is often hampered by positive and negative symptoms, which limit their expression of spiritual needs and shift mental-health professionals’ focus from spiritual care to symptom control. Differences in the ways that the two parties understand spirituality may create different expectations and further hinder the provision of high-quality holistic care. This study investigated the meaning and roles of spirituality from the perspectives of persons with schizophrenia and mental-health professionals.
My name is Zara, and my illness struck me at the tender age of 18 and carried on into my adult life. An illness like psychosis challenges your sense of self and how you relate to others and the world around you. I am now passionate about education around psychosis and extinguishing stigma. Here are some of the ways life is different after you've experienced psychosis.
NHS England’s Improving Rehabilitation Services Programme Lead explains why guidance published today is a vital new tool for commissioners, patients, their families, clinicians and provider organisations:
In response to commissioners’ requests for support and guidance, today sees the publication of Commissioning Guidance for Rehabilitation.
Mindfulness-based therapy can benefit people with drug-resistant epilepsy. This article concerns 60 people, each receiving either four bi-weekly sessions of therapy or social support. They were included in randomised controlled trials to assess their quality of life in epilepsy inventory (QOLEI) score level, seizure patterns, mood levels and neurocognitive functions. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 39.1 (Mar 2016): 77-80.
Topic: This contribution describes a personal recovery journey and highlights the importance of growth and renewal of self-determination as a critical part of recovery from mental health challenges.Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
the evidence for patient benefits within secure psychiatric hospitals are somewhat limited (Davies et al., 2007; Maden et al., 1999). Whilst single studies have examined the outcomes of discharged patients in several countries (Steels et al., 1998; Yoshikawa et al., 2007), there is a need to synthesise these reports, present information on all adverse outcomes and also to provide some comparative information to contextualize these findings.
The authors of the present study (Fazel et al, 2016) therefore chose to conduct a systematic review of studies that have tracked patients after being discharged from a secure psychiatric hospital for criminal behaviour, readmission to psychiatric hospitals and mortality.
For many people, telling your place of work about a mental health issue is a terrifying prospect. But employers can play a vital role in supporting recovery and raising awareness. Chris Lynch, a Rethink Mental Illness group coordinator from Cheshire, shares his story about how his employer Pizza Hut helped him through his illness...
There are a range of local and national organisations able to support NHS organisations committed to employing people with learning disabilities. In the second in a series of blogs from the NHS Learning Disability Employment Programme, St. George’s Hospital showcases Susie’s employment journey as well as some of the support they accessed:
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Feb 15, 2016).
Objective: This article presents findings from a naturalistic study that explored the impact of peer support participation on recovery-related outcomes over a 6-month period. In particular, this study hoped to fill gaps in the literature regarding the process through which personal change occurs in peer support organizations. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
There has been an increasing number of employer best practice guidelines (BPGs) for the return to work (RTW) from mental disorder-related disability leave. This systematic review addresses 2 questions: 1) What is the quality of the development and recommendations of these BPGs? and 2) What are the areas of agreement and discrepancy among the identified guidelines related to the RTW from mental illness-related disability leave? Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
We wanted to find out what helps and what hinders care planning for people with mental health problems to be collaborative, personalised and recovery-focused.
Implementation of recovery-oriented practice has proven to be challenging, and little is known about the extent to which recovery-oriented principles are integrated into mental health inpatient settings. This review of the literature examined the extent to which a recovery-oriented approach is an integrated part of mental health inpatient settings. Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library http://www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
More women at HMP Eastwood Park near Bristol are engaging with recovery programmes offered by our Trust, thanks to the introduction of peer mentors.
Peer mentors can give support and advice to prisoners by sharing their lived experiences and first-hand knowledge. Their success is due to the fact that they are able to communicate with women on a level that staff are unable to reach. This has resulted in more people wanting to engage with the drug and alcohol services available at the prison.
The Director of the NHS Learning Disability Employment Programme introduces a new series of blogs which aims to share perspectives on employing people with a learning disability in the NHS. Over the next few months we’ll be posting blogs on a wide range of topics from employers, carers, and people with a learning disability who are employed in the NHS, with the aim of sharing best practice and helping others find solutions to employing people within their organisations
Conclusions
The administrative elements of care co-ordination reduce opportunities for recovery-focused and personalised work. There were few shared understandings of recovery, which may limit shared goals. Conversations on risk appeared to be neglected and assessments kept from service users. A reluctance to engage in dialogue about risk management may work against opportunities for positive risk-taking as part of recovery-focused work.
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Open access. Aims and method- A retrospective evaluation was undertaken of the clinical and economic effectiveness of three in-patient rehabilitation units across one London National Health Service trust. Information on admission days and costs 2 years before and 2 years after the rehabilitation placement, length of rehabilitation placement and the discharge pathway was collected on 22 service users.
Results- There were statistically significant reductions in hospital admission days in the 2 years following rehabilitation compared with the 2 years before, further reflected in significantly lower bed costs. Longer length of rehabilitation placement was correlated with fewer admission days after the placement. A substantial proportion of the sample went into more independent living, some with no further admissions at follow-up.
Clinical implications- The findings suggest that in-patient rehabilitation is both clinically and cost effective: if benefits are sustained they will offset the cost of the rehabilitation placement.
Lyn Skipper, Recovery Lead at Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust nominated Justine Brown, Peer Support worker co-ordinator, and Service User (Peer Tutor) Nikki Sullivan. Here, Lyn describes the work that Justine and Nikki have been doing:
The occupational therapy and rehabilitation therapy services working at Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health Trust (WLHMT), have recently come together under one management structure. This merger led to the idea of measuring the work environment of both services to establish any differences or commonalities to provide a baseline measurement to inform future service developments. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The Health Foundation’s fourth film from its’ award winning series focuses on mental health.
The film follows Heather’s journey, from mental health patient to recovery student at Severn & Wye Recovery College, where she participated in peer support-which proved to be of significant value to her.
The Severn & Wye Recovery College, featured in the film, was set up by the 2gether Trust in 2013 to provide a new way to support people living with mental illness.
Supporting recovery is the aim of national mental health policy in many countries. However, only one measure of recovery has been developed in England: the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR), which measures recovery from the perspective of adult mental health service users with a psychosis diagnosis. Library Services do not currently have access to this journal, but you can request a copy of the article online and we will try to get a copy to you: http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
There is an emerging evidence base about best practice in supporting recovery. This is usually framed in relation to general principles, and specific pro-recovery interventions are lacking.
Aims:To develop a theoretically based and empirically defensible new pro-recovery manualised intervention – called the REFOCUS intervention. Library Services do not currently have access to this journal, but you can request a copy of the article online and we will try to get a copy to you: http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
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