The emergence of recovery, alongside significant focus on risk management, creates potential for conflicting influences in mental health care. Although evidence has critiqued risk assessment, there is a lack of research that seeks to explore how professionals make decisions within these apparently incompatible agendas.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Social and occupational impairments contribute to the burden of psychosis and depression. There is a need for risk stratification tools to inform personalized functional-disability preventive strategies for individuals in at-risk and early phases of these illnesses.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Developing person‐centred recovery‐oriented care is a challenge in mental health systems, particularly psychiatric hospitals.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (Nov 8, 2018). DOI:10.1037/ort0000316
Individuals with psychiatric disabilities who are involved in the criminal justice system face a number of challenges to community integration upon release. There is a critical need to develop and evaluate interventions for these individuals that connect them to the community by enhancing naturalistic social connections and helping them to participate meaningfully in valued roles. The purposes of this article are to describe, provide a theoretical rationale, and propose a conceptual model for the use of a particular restorative justice model, circles of support and accountability, to meet this need. We describe the principles of restorative justice (repairing harm, stakeholder involvement, and the transformation of community and governmental roles and relationships) and how these map on to elements of the circles intervention.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
The inaugural Exercise Professionals for Mental Health (EPMH) Conference, organised by the Exercise Professionals for Mental Health Network, was an opportunity for qualified exercise professionals working in mental health settings to share best practice, research and learning and to establish guidance and standards for services to work towards to ensure safe effective evidence based practices are being adhered to throughout the country.
The role – delivered in partnership between our Trust, Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) – has addressed a gap in support that meant people with complex mental health conditions were encountering barriers when trying to return to accommodation in the community.
NHS England, NHS Employers and the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) are running two half-day workshops to help support NHS organisations to employ more people with a learning disability.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Vol. 41, Iss. 4, (Dec 2018): 341-350. DOI:10.1037/prj0000320
Objective: This article describes the development and testing of the Functional Recovery tool (FR tool), a short instrument for assessing functional recovery during routine outcome monitoring of people living with serious mental illnesses.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Taking part in regular physical activity is linked to a more positive outlook on general health in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to a new report.
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Dec 17, 2018). DOI:10.1037/prj0000340
Objective: Hope is a key component of personal recovery. There is limited evidence regarding the association of hope with the level of functioning in individuals with psychosis. It is also not clear which dimensions of hope are most strongly related to clinical recovery. Thus, this study aims to explore the relationships of hope and its dimensions with various indicators of clinical recovery such as overall psychopathology, depression and global functioning among people with psychotic disorders.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has said that it is increasingly concerned about the use of locked rehabilitation wards for people with serious mental health problems, which were stopping them getting better as quickly as possible. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Conclusions: Qualitative findings suggest that many, but not all, clients will be interested in using technology to support mental health needs. The variability in type and quality of technology owned by participants suggests the need to design for a range of functionality in the development of mental health tools. Findings also suggest thinking broadly about using existing platforms and widely available tools to support consumers in mental health recovery.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Dec 27, 2018). DOI:10.1037/prj0000337
Objective: A growing body of literature indicates that mobile health (mHealth) interventions that utilize smartphones for illness management are feasible, acceptable, and clinically promising. In this study, we examine how individuals with serious mental illness use a mHealth intervention—FOCUS—to self-manage their illnesses. Additionally, we explored participant perceptions of the intervention’s impact on their subjective illness experience.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Rehabilitation Psychology (Dec 20, 2018). DOI:10.1037/rep0000255
Purpose/Objective: Effective treatment for postconcussive symptoms (PCS) immediately following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) includes reassurance, support, education about mTBI, and symptom management. However, effective treatments for chronic postconcussive-like symptoms, particularly with mental health comorbidities, remain unclear. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
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Recovery-oriented practice promotes the strengths and recovery potential of individuals. We aimed to establish whether individuals who access mental health services where staff have received the REFOCUS-PULSAR intervention, an adaptation of the UK's REFOCUS recovery-oriented staff intervention for use in Australia, show increased recovery compared with people using non-intervention services.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
In The Lancet Psychiatry, Graham Meadows and colleagues 1 report the findings of a trial of the REFOCUS-PULSAR specialist care intervention, an adaptation of the UK's REFOCUS recovery-oriented staff intervention 2 for use in Australia. The study was designed to examine a training intervention in recovery-oriented practices for community mental health teams using a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised controlled design.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Conclusions: Mental health service recipients currently use general functions such as listening to music and calling friends to support recovery. Nevertheless, they reported interest in trying more specific illness-management apps.
Falls are common among stroke survivors but many are not taught how to get up again. A technique from an association called Action for Rehabilitation Following Neurological Injury addresses this problem. We investigated the feasibility and safety of teaching this technique to stroke survivors. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Simon Bradstreet welcomes the findings of the REFOCUS-PULSAR trial, which evaluated recovery-oriented practice training in specialist mental health care.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Mar 7, 2019). DOI:10.1037/prj0000356
Objective: Recovery, defined as a personal process of living with mental illness, has become a prominent concept in mental health care. We aimed to map the state of the art of conceptualizing recovery, its promoting and impeding factors, recovery-oriented practice, and the assessment of recovery.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
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The Learning Disability Employment Programme recently held two webinars which were facilitated by the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) to help support NHS organisations to employ more people with a learning disability and/or autism. The webinars were recorded and are now available to watch anytime.
The Severn and Wye Recovery College has launched two new digital manuals.
The manuals were funded by the Health Foundation as a resource to be used both by the college and its students, and by other organisations and groups wishing to set up their own Recovery Colleges.
Open access. This study examined whether two types of provider communication considered important to quality of care (i.e., shows respect and explains understandably) are associated with mental health outcomes related to personal recovery (i.e., connectedness, hope, internalized stigma, life satisfaction, and empowerment). This study also tested whether these associations varied by the type of provider seen (i.e., mental health professional versus general medical doctor).
Open access. Involving mental health service users in planning and reviewing their care can help personalised care focused on recovery, with the aim of developing goals specific to the individual and designed to maximise achievements and social integration. We aimed to ascertain the views of service users, carers and staff in acute inpatient wards on factors that facilitated or acted as barriers to collaborative, recovery-focused care.
NHS England has announced a major expansion of a landmark scheme designed to help tens of thousands of patients with serious mental health problems who want to work, to find employment.
The voluntary scheme, known as Individual Placement and Support (IPS), is being rolled out to 28 new local NHS areas, meaning eight out of ten parts of England will have access to the programme.
The Trust was successful in its bid for funding from NHS England for the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) scheme, and will be recruiting employment specialists and an IPS team leader for the core and enhanced teams in Calderdale.
Service users who want paid work can be referred directly by their doctor or another mental health professional, and can also self-refer.
Employment specialists find suitable jobs matched to a person’s skills and interests, offer coaching around finding a job and preparing for interviews whilst providing tailored ongoing support when the person is in work. They can also speak to employers directly alongside the service user to identify well-suited roles – acting as a crucial link between patient, their employer and their clinical team.
The notion of personal recovery has become central to the delivery of mental health services; however, no published subjective recovery measure has been validated in an inpatient adolescent mental health sample. We aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Recovery Questionnaire for Young People (ReQuest‐YP) in this inpatient context. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (May 30, 2019). DOI:10.1037/prj0000367
Objective: The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the current provision and policy focus on Individual Placement and Support (IPS) in England. Method: This report reviews current and future national developments shaping the future direction of IPS in England. Results: Recent government policy announcements have led to an increased interest and focus on IPS nationally throughout England, leading to an expected growth in the numbers of people with a serious mental illness able to access employment support. Conclusions and Implications for Practice: England has the potential to become an exemplar of the supported employment approach and helping people with mental health problems get back to work, allowing individuals the opportunity to recover and access the benefits that employment can bring.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (May 27, 2019). DOI:10.1037/prj0000373
Objective: This study examined the types of goals set, the degree to which goals were achieved, and the factors influencing goal attainment for participants in a Recovery College, a recovery-based mental health education program that uses peer learning advisors to facilitate individual student learning plans.. To read the full article, log in using your 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Sally McManus writes her debut elf blog on a recent national cohort study of multiple adverse outcomes following first discharge from psychiatric care.
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.
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.