Tackling problem drug use

Tackling problem drug use, NAO, March 2010 Click on the title above to access the full-text of this report Abstract: “Reduction in harm caused by problem drug use presents a complex and chronic challenge. This is being addressed by a series of strategies and programmes and very substantial resources: £1.2 billion a year.  It is [...]

Personal Health Budgets Toolkit – Downloads

Personal Health Budgets Toolkit – Downloads  Investing for Health – West Midlands NHS, Personal Health Budget Toolkits Click on the title above to access the page to download the tools Abstract: Toolkits for support planning, workforce, market development, finance and communications – West Midlands SHA Click on the two links above to access the toolkits [...]

Social Work – Useful Websites

Social Work – Useful Websites Below is a few useful websites for people working in Social Work or Mental Health SCIE – Social Care Institute for Excellence North West Commissioning RoadMap Joseph Rowntree Foundation SWAP – Social Policy & Social Work Social Work, Alcohol & Drugs DrugScope Click on the links above to access these [...]

Paths to Personalisation in Mental Health – Whole System, Whole Life Framework

Paths to Personalisation  March 2o10, National Mental Health Development Unit Click on the title above to access the full-text Abstract: This guide has been produced to help all those involved understand how things will need to be done differently to make personalisation a reality for people with mental health needs.  This is a whole system [...]

Integrating Care in Norfolk – Progress of a National Pilot.

Integrating Care in Norfolk – Progress of a National Pilot, Journal of Integrated Care, 2010, 18 (1) pp.  31-7 Helen Tucker Helen Tucker Associates Ltd., University of Warwick Abstract: As one of the 16 pilots in the Department of Health Integrated Care Organisation (ICO) programme, Norfolk is exploring ways of integrating primary, community and social [...]

Inclusion Health: improving the way we meet the primary healthcare needs of the socially excluded

Inclusion Health: improving the way we meet the primary healthcare needs of the socially excluded, March 2o10, Cabinet Office, Department of Health Evidence Pack – Inclusion Health Click on the title above to access the full-text of this report Abstract: Inclusion Health is a joint project between the Social Exclusion Task Force and the Department [...]

The Reflective Learning Model: Supervision of Social Work Students

The Reflective Learning Model: Supervision of Social Work Students , Social Work Education, Vol. 28,(8) December 2009 , pp.  919 – 933 Allyson Mary Davys Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand Abstract: A key task for the field education supervisor is to facilitate reflection in beginning practice, and to promote in the student a sense of [...]

Mental Health Workers Negotiating Risk on the Frontline – Winner of the Norman Smith Publication in Social Work Research Award 2009

Mental Health Workers Negotiating Risk on the Frontline , Australian Social Work, Vol.62 (4)  2009 , pp.  441 -459 Anne-Maree Sawyer School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Winner of the Norman Smith Publication in Social Work Research Award 2009 Abstract: Following deinstitutionalisation and the shift to models of community care, mental health practice [...]

Social professionals’ perceptions of activating citizenship

Social professionals’ perceptions of activating citizenship, European Journal of Social Work, Volume 13, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 73 – 90 Reeli Sirotkina; Hans van Ewijk Abstract: This article reports on qualitative research among 48 social professionals, managers and policymakers and their perceptions of activating citizenship, social work roles and responsibilities, carried out in [...]