Quality standards for community mental health teams [PDF]
SummaryThere is an increasing requirement for mental health services to demonstrate the quality of care provided. We have developed a quality report of our local community mental health team in Cornwall and suggest quality measures that we believe are useful to patients and clinicians, and possible to implement without overwhelming busy team members ...
Richard Laugharne, Rohit Shankar
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Morale of mental health professionals in Community Mental Health Services of a Northern Italian Province. [PDF]
Publisher version: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EPSAIMS: To explore morale of psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses working in Community Mental Health Centres (CMHC) in an Italian Province, and identify influential factors ...
Costantini +7 more
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing an urban co-responding police-mental health team
Background In an effort to reduce the increasing number of persons with mental illness (PMI) experiencing incarceration, co-responding police-mental health teams are being utilized as a way to divert PMI from the criminal justice system.
Katie Bailey +5 more
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Background Mental health services are encouraged to use language consistent with principles of recovery-oriented practice. This study presents a novel approach for identifying whether clinical documentation contains recovery-oriented rehabilitation ...
Veronica De Monte +9 more
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Gatekeeping access to community mental health teams [PDF]
Aims and MethodA retrospective survey to explore how consultant psychiatrists, senior house officers and community psychiatric nurses prioritised referrals to four sectorised community mental health teams.ResultsReferral outcomes appeared to be comparable for patients with psychoses, sub-threshold mental health problems and personality disorders ...
P. McEvoy, S. Colgan, D. Richards
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Developing a Multiple Caregiver Group for Caregivers of Adolescents With Disruptive Behaviors [PDF]
This article describes the development of a 6-week multiple caregiver group intervention for primary caregivers of adolescents diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder in low-income African American families.
Aalsma, Matt +5 more
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Effectiveness of an intervention for managing victimization risks related to societal participation for persons with severe mental illness: A cluster RCT study protocol [PDF]
Background: People with severe mental illness (SMI) are more likely to experience criminal victimization than other community members. In addition, (self-) stigma and perceived discrimination are highly prevalent in this group.
Albers, W.M.M. (Wendy M.M.) +4 more
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Boring but important: the community mental health team [PDF]
Green and Gowans are right to worry about what has happened to the seriously mentally ill when the number of psychiatric beds has been mercilessly cut.1 However, it may be misleading when they talk of ‘a lack of evidence for community teams’ and then talk about crisis teams (CTs). The fact that CTs — often heralded as ‘the’ alternative to admission — …
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Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Mental Illness in General Practice [PDF]
This paper calls for the routine integration of mental health promotion and prevention into UK General Practice in order to reduce the burden of mental and physical disorders and the ensuing pressure on General Practice.
Burch, Tony +16 more
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Adapting TeamSTEPPS for school mental health teams: a pilot study
Background School mental health care often is provided by teams contracted from community mental health agencies. The team members that provide this care, however, do not typically receive training in how to work effectively in a team-based context. Team
Courtney Benjamin Wolk +5 more
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