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Increasing the vocational focus of the community mental health team

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2003
Despite increasing interest in the UK in enabling community mental health teams to support clients' vocational aspirations, surveys suggest that progress to date has been slow. This study aimed to identify factors that facilitate or create barriers to teams engaging in vocational work by exploring experiences and perceptions at three sites where ...
Patience, Seebohm, Jenny, Secker
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Support for community mental health teams post-suicide

Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2019
Suicide is a relatively common event in those seeking psychiatric care. However, its impact is nonetheless traumatic and devastating for those involved in the care of the patient. Community mental health teams (CMHTs) address every aspect of a patient’s life, which creates a unique relationship between the team and the patient. Patient suicide can have
E. McGuire, S. Murthy
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Collaboration and the community mental health team

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 1997
Community mental health teams provide a forum where the difficulties and opportunities relating to effective collaboration in community care are particularly evident. Effective and long-term collaborative relationships with service users are the cornerstone of good quality provision. This requires effective targeting, the provision of relevant services,
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The Community Mental Health Team and the mentally disordered offender

2017
There is a long-standing policy of diversion of mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) from the criminal justice system to care by mental health services. Care of the MDO presents specific challenges to the non-forensic practitioner. These include the need to understand the workings of the criminal justice system and the specific legal issues presented ...
Frank Holloway, Tony Davies
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The management of change in aCommunity Mental Health Team

Australian Health Review, 2002
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is the most widely studied and well supported evidence based communitymanagement model for persons with severe mental illness (SMI) in the mental health literature. This report details the replacement of an unevaluated generic model of case management with ACT in a metropolitan inner city area.This is work in ...
Anthony, Mander, Allen, Gomes, David, Castle   +2 more
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The future of the community mental health team

International Review of Psychiatry, 2000
The community mental health team, a robust multidisciplinary group of professionals, is relatively new to psychiatric services.In a short time, however, it has become established as a potent force in the care of the mentally ill. It seems likely to become the cornerstone of the psychiatric service in the next 100 years as it is the powerhouse of ...
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The challenge of managing community mental health teams

Health & Social Care in the Community, 2007
Although community mental health teams (CMHTs) have become the main vehicle for coordinating health and social care for people with severe and long-term mental health problems, little research exists on their management. This paper reviews the available literature with reference to the wider literature on innovation and organizational behaviour and ...
Steve Psychol, Richard Standen
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Mental health teams in the community.

Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987), 1996
This article describes how one community psychiatric nursing service established a forum to clarify the roles and professional boundaries for nurses working within a multidisciplinary team. The author describes the initiative within the context óf the wider issues surrounding mental health care in the community.
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Community mental health teams: a suitable case for treatment

British Journal of Nursing, 1993
The new order of mental health provision requires a major shift in emphasis from inpatient to outpatient, day and domiciliary care. Unprecedented levels of collaboration will be needed between the different professional groups involved and between health and local authorities and the independent sector.
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The concept of priority as it relates to a community mental health team

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2001
This article illustrates how a concept clarification exercise can provide evidence to inform local policy development. Based on the framework developed in Walker and Avant's (1995) concept clarification theory, the concept of priority is examined in the context of a team of community mental health nurses.
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