The Nursing Roadmap for Quality: a signposting map for nursing

The Nursing Roadmap for Quality: a signposting map for nursing, March 2o10, Department of Health Click on the title above to access the full-text of this report Abstract: The Nursing Roadmap for Quality has been designed help nurses and their teams understand the elements of the quality framework that relate to nursing practice. The purpose [...]

Working it out: employment for people with a mental health condition

Working it out: employment for people with a mental health condition   March 2010, Click on the title above to access the full-text of this briefing Abstract: The link between employment and positive mental health is an issue of great importance for the NHS, both in terms of supporting service users to recover from mental health [...]

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 [...]

A 12-Month Follow-Up Evaluation of Integrated Treatment for Homeless Individuals With Co-Occurring Disorders

A 12-Month Follow-Up Evaluation of Integrated Treatment for Homeless Individuals With Co-Occurring Disorders , Journal of Social Service Research, Vol. 35(4)  2009, pp. 322 – 335 Kathleen A. Moore Florida Mental Health Institute, Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, Tampa Abstract: This study examined the effectiveness of the Comprehensive, Continuous, Integrated [...]

Harm Reduction for Drug Abusing Ex-Offenders: Outcome of the California Prevention and Education Project MORE Project

Harm Reduction for Drug Abusing Ex-Offenders: Outcome of the California Prevention and Education Project MORE Project , Journal of Evidence – Based Social Work, Volume 7, Issue 1 & 2 January 2010 , pages 15 – 29 Benjamin P. Bowser Department of Sociology and Social Services, California State University, Hayward, California, USA Abstract: MORE was a [...]

Adult mental health in a changing international context: the relevance to social work

Adult mental health in a changing international context: the relevance to social work, British Journal of Social Work , 2009 Dec; 39(8): 1615-22 Ramon, S Anglia Ruskin University, Department of Social Work, Cambridge University of Hertfordshire, Centre for Mental Health Recovery, Hatfield, UK Abstract: This critical commentary surveys the field of mental health social work [...]

Dignity in Care – SCIE Guide 15

Dignity in Care  SCIE,  March 2009 Click on the title to gain access to the full-text Abstract: SCIE aims to improve the experience of people who use social care by developing and promoting knowledge about good practice. Using knowledge gathered from diverse sources and a broad range of people and organisations, we develop resources that [...]

Paying the piper and calling the tune: power and the direct payment relationship

Paying the piper and calling the tune: power and the direct payment relationship, British Journal of Social Work, 40(1), January 2010, pp.188-206 LEECE Janet Dr Janet Leece is a registered social worker who has worked in social care for many years, both as a social work practitioner and, later, as a Commissioning Officer. She is also [...]

Prioritising need in the context of Putting People First: a whole system approach to eligibility for social care – guidance on eligibility criteria for adult social care, England 2010

Prioritising need in the context of Putting People First: a whole system approach to eligibility for social care – guidance on eligibility criteria for adult social care, England 2010, Feb 2010, Department of Health Impact assessment of the revision of the Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) guidance Click on the titles above to access [...]

Personalisation briefing: Implications for community learning disability staff

Personalisation briefing: Implications for community learning disability staff,  SCIE, March 2010 Click on the title above to access the full-text of this briefing Abstract: This At a glance briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for community-based health and social care staff supporting people with a learning disability. Personalisation means thinking about care and [...]

Adult social care improves again

Adult social care improves again,  Nursing & Residential Care, 2010 Feb; 12 (2): 59 Whittle B Abstract: Latest reports show a continuing improvement in standards but areas of concern remain.  The Care Quality Commission has released its first major statement on the quality of adult social care in England to a mixed reaction from the [...]

Workplace Violence towards Social Workers: The Australian Experience

Workplace Violence towards Social Workers: The Australian Experience, British Journal of Social Work 2010 40(1):257-271 Stella Koritsas, Jan Coles and Malcolm Boyle Stella Koritsas is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria, and her research interests include violence and behaviour. Jan Coles is a Senior Research Fellow with Child Abuse Research [...]

The costs of change: a case study of the process of implementing individual budgets across pilot local authorities in England

The costs of change: a case study of the process of implementing individual budgets across pilot local authorities in England, Health & Social Care in the Community, Jan 2010, Volume 18 Issue 1, Pages 51 - 58 Karen Jones, Ann Netten Karen Jones BSc (Hons) MSc PhD and Ann Netten BA (Hons) PhD Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of [...]

The Cochrane library and the treatment of major depression in children and youth: an overview of reviews

The Cochrane library and the treatment of major depression in children and youth: an overview of reviews,  Evidence-Based Child Health: A Cochrane Review Journal, Volume 4, Issue 4, Date: December 2009, Pages: 1336-1350  Suzanne Zinck, Alexa Bagnell, Kenneth Bond, Amanda S. Newton Click on the title above to gain direct full-text access Abstract: Background Major depression (MDD) in children [...]

Teachers’ Recognition of Children’s Mental Health Problems

Teachers’ Recognition of Children’s Mental Health Problems, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2010 Maria E. Loades, Kiki Mastroyannopoulou School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, Faculty of Health, University of East Anglia, Elizabeth Fry Building, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK Abstract: Background: Teachers have a significant role to play in identifying children with mental health problems. However, [...]

Anxiety disorders in older adults: a comprehensive review

Anxiety disorders in older adults: a comprehensive review, Depression and Anxiety Volume 27, Issue 2, Date: February 2010, Pages: 190-211 Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor, Natalie Castriotta, Eric J. Lenze, Melinda A. Stanley, Michelle G. Craske Abstract: This review aims to address issues unique to older adults with anxiety disorders in order to inform potential changes in the DSM-V. Prevalence and [...]

The Assessment of Executive Functioning in Children

The Assessment of Executive Functioning in Children, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2010 Lucy A. Henry, Caroline Bettenay  Department of Psychology, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA Abstract: Background: Executive functioning is increasingly seen as incorporating several component sub-skills and clinical assessments should reflect this complexity. Method: Tools for assessing executive functioning in [...]

Improving Mental Well-being Through Impact Assessment – Toolkits to download

Improving Mental Well-being Through Impact Assessment  2009, NMHDU, Mental Well-being Impact Assessment: A Toolkit Mental Health Improvement: Evidence and Practice Click on the title to acces the full-text to access the full-text Abstract: Making a local impact on mental well-being. The work of MWIA enables local areas, organisations and projects to look in detail at [...]

Prediction of psychosis in adolescents and young adults at high risk: results from the prospective European prediction of psychosis study.

Prediction of psychosis in adolescents and young adults at high risk: results from the prospective European prediction of psychosis study, Archives of  General Psychiatry, 2010 Mar;67(3):241-51 Ruhrman, et al. Abstract: CONTEXT: Indicated prevention is currently regarded as the most promising strategy to attenuate, delay, or even avert psychosis. Existing criteria need improvement in terms of [...]

Most Read Article – The NHS and Community Care Act, 1990: Recent government policy and legislation

The NHS and Community Care Act, 1990: Recent government policy and legislation, The Psychiatrist (1994) 18: 13-17 Graham Thornicroft, Sentor Lecturer PRiSM, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, Consultant Community Psychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ Abstract: The National Health Service and Community Care Act, 1990, enacts some provisions contained [...]

Use of psychotropic medication among psychiatric out-patients with personality disorder

Use of psychotropic medication among psychiatric out-patients with personality disorder, The Psychiatrist 2010 34: 83-86 Elena Baker-Glenn, Mark Steels, and Chris Evans Elena Baker-Glenn is Specialty Registrar at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Nottingham Abstract: Aims and method This survey was conducted to ascertain the use of psychotropic medication in the treatment of patients with a [...]

Treating personality disorder in community mental health teams

Treating personality disorder in community mental health teams, The Psychiatrist (2010) 34: 86-88 Conor Duggan is Professor of Forensic Mental Health, University of Nottingham, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Commentary on… Use of psychotropic medication among psychiatric out-patients with personality disorder Abstract: Although personality disorders are prevalent conditions and the cause of [...]