Increased workloads, under-staffing, job insecurity and continuing, rapid organisational change have all been identified as major sources of stress among mental health nurses. So too has the increasing intensity of work, with more highly disturbed and potentially violent or suicidal patients. But, BEN THOMAS argues, trusts themselves could do much more by tackling poor management practice and introducing effective policies and procedures to deal with stress at both organisational and individual levels.
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Prompted by its user members, the Salford adult mental health services clinical audit group decided to review the information on medication available to clients. Here Mick Renoden, a service user on the clinical audit group with a 22 year history of contact with mental health services, describes his own experiences with clinicians and medication. Then Jeff Withington reports the results of a survey of users' views, which revealed a strong demand for information about medication that could be easily understood and trusted, and led to the production of a range of leaflets.
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{"title":"Door to opportunity.","authors":"A Pulham","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 1","pages":"36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Epilepsy is frequently associated with learning disability, and can add considerably to the difficulties this client group experiences. However behavioural and daily living difficulties can be exacerbated by the seemingly common practice of polypharmacy, as this small-scale study shows. Barry Coughlan calls for further, detailed research into the appropriate administration of anti-convulsant drugs to children and adults with learning disabilities and epilepsy.
{"title":"Epilepsy, learning disability and anti-convulsant drug status.","authors":"B J Coughlan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Epilepsy is frequently associated with learning disability, and can add considerably to the difficulties this client group experiences. However behavioural and daily living difficulties can be exacerbated by the seemingly common practice of polypharmacy, as this small-scale study shows. Barry Coughlan calls for further, detailed research into the appropriate administration of anti-convulsant drugs to children and adults with learning disabilities and epilepsy.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 1","pages":"25-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With his background in law and race relations, Paul Boateng was a surprise appointment as junior health minister. But he has quickly mastered his brief.
拥有法律和种族关系背景的保罗·博阿滕出人意料地被任命为初级卫生部长。但他很快就掌握了自己的简介。
{"title":"Boateng gets down to business.","authors":"P Boateng","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With his background in law and race relations, Paul Boateng was a surprise appointment as junior health minister. But he has quickly mastered his brief.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 1","pages":"7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental health care.","authors":"C Jackson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a relatively recent diagnostic category, but it has long been recognised that trauma can produce persistent psychological sequelae. Paul Wheble describes how he successfully used cognitive behavioural therapy to help Alec, a fire-fighter, come to terms with an horrific accident 16 years previously.
{"title":"Fighting fire with fire.","authors":"P Wheble","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a relatively recent diagnostic category, but it has long been recognised that trauma can produce persistent psychological sequelae. Paul Wheble describes how he successfully used cognitive behavioural therapy to help Alec, a fire-fighter, come to terms with an horrific accident 16 years previously.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 1","pages":"30-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Community mental health teams (CMHTs) are widely regarded as the mainstay of community services, bringing health and social services professionals together to target people with severe mental health problems. Heather Harper and Edana Minghella report the findings of a recent survey looking at the pressures and rewards of working in these community-based, multi-disciplinary teams.
{"title":"Pressures and rewards of working in community mental health teams.","authors":"H Harper, E Minghella","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Community mental health teams (CMHTs) are widely regarded as the mainstay of community services, bringing health and social services professionals together to target people with severe mental health problems. Heather Harper and Edana Minghella report the findings of a recent survey looking at the pressures and rewards of working in these community-based, multi-disciplinary teams.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 1","pages":"18-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pathway to employment.","authors":"C Jackson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 1","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The findings of the Mental Health Care stress survey will come as no surprise to nurses working on the front-line. But the statistics tell only half the story.
心理健康护理压力调查的结果对工作在第一线的护士来说并不奇怪。但统计数据只说明了问题的一半。
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