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Targeting community mental health services [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1994
EDITOR, - We agree with the conclusions drawn by Alison S Conway and colleagues1 and would like to comment on several aspects of their results. A community based mental health service may be in a position to facilitate admissions, even though it has “avoiding admissions” as one of its goals, but we think that rather than quantifying admissions, finer ...
N Purandare, M Lock, N Gandhi, S Holmes
openaire   +3 more sources

Motivations and experiences of volunteers and patients in mental health befriending: a thematic analysis

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2019
Background Volunteers frequently participate in befriending schemes with people with mental illness. This study aimed to explore the motivations and experiences of volunteer befrienders engaging in these schemes in addition to the experiences of ...
Megan Cassidy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fidelity to an evidence-based model for crisis resolution teams: a cross-sectional multicentre study in Norway

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2021
Background Crisis resolution teams (CRTs) are specialized multidisciplinary teams intended to provide assessment and short-term outpatient or home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission for people experiencing a mental health crisis. In Norway,
N. Hasselberg   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Current Capacity and Future Implementation of Mental Health Services in U.S. LGBTQ Community Centers.

open access: yesPsychiatric Services, 2021
OBJECTIVE Since the beginning of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights movement, LGBTQ community centers have been on the front lines of mental health care for sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) across the United States ...
J. Pachankis   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A mixed methods exploration of the role of multi-family groups in community treatment of patients with depression and anxiety in Pakistan

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2021
Background An open, non-controlled trial was conducted to explore the feasibility, experiences and outcomes of multi-family groups in community mental health care of patients with depression and anxiety.
Saniya Saleem   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Associated with Patient Satisfaction of Community Mental Health Services: A Multilevel Approach

open access: yesCommunity mental health journal, 2019
Community care is increasingly the mainstay of mental healthcare provision in many countries and patient satisfaction is an important barometer of quality of patient care.
Niccolò Stamboglis, R. Jacobs
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Feasibility and acceptability of group music therapy vs wait-list control for treatment of patients with long-term depression (the SYNCHRONY trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

open access: yesTrials, 2017
Background Depression is of significant global concern. Despite a range of effective treatment options it is estimated that around one in five diagnosed with an acute depressive episode continue to experience enduring symptoms for more than 2 years ...
Catherine Elizabeth Carr   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Promotion of Mental Health Rehabilitation in China: Community- Based Mental-Health Services

open access: yesConsortium Psychiatricum, 2020
Community-based mental health services are important for the treatment and recovery of patients with mental health disorders. The Chinese government has made the establishment of a highly efficient community-based health service an enduring priority. Since
Youwei Zhu, Xu Li, Min Zhao
doaj   +1 more source

Community Mental Health Services for Autistic Adults: Good News and Bad News.

open access: yesAutism in Adulthood, 2019
Many autistic adults experience psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression. However, autistic adults often do not receive effective and affordable mental health (MH) treatment. Untreated psychiatric conditions in autistic adults are associated
Brenna B. Maddox, V. Gaus
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Co-production in community mental health services: blurred boundaries or a game of pretend?

open access: yesSociology of Health and Illness, 2018
The concept of co-production suggests a collaborative production of public welfare services, across boundaries of participant categories, for example professionals, service users, peer-workers and volunteers. While co-production has been embraced in most
Sine Kirkegaard, Ditte Andersen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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