Access to firearms: When and how do mental health clients become prohibited from owning guns?

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-385
Author(s):  
Amy Barnhorst ◽  
Rose M. C. Kagawa
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Clients

Root Cause Analyses of Suicides of Mental Health Clients

Crisis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 316-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Gillies ◽  
David Chicop ◽  
Paul O'Halloran
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mental Health Clients ◽  
Imminent Risk

Abstract. Background: The ability to predict imminent risk of suicide is limited, particularly among mental health clients. Root cause analysis (RCA) can be used by health services to identify service-wide approaches to suicide prevention. Aims: To (a) develop a standardized taxonomy for RCAs; (b) to quantitate service-related factors associated with suicides; and (c) to identify service-related suicide prevention strategies. Method: The RCAs of all people who died by suicide within 1 week of contact with the mental health service over 5 years were thematically analyzed using a data collection tool. Results: Data were derived from RCAs of all 64 people who died by suicide between 2008 and 2012. Major themes were categorized as individual, situational, and care-related factors. The most common factor was that clients had recently denied suicidality. Reliance on carers, recent changes in medication, communication problems, and problems in follow-through were also commonly identified. Conclusion: Given the difficulty in predicting suicide in people whose expressions of suicidal ideation change so rapidly, services may consider the use of strategies aimed at improving the individual, stressor, support, and care factors identified in this study.

Expanding the early and late starter model of criminal justice involvement for forensic mental health clients.

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne G. Crocker ◽  
Michael S. Martin ◽  
Marichelle C. Leclair ◽  
Tonia L. Nicholls ◽  
Michael C. Seto
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
Criminal Justice Involvement ◽  
Mental Health Clients ◽  
Late Starter

scholarly journals Social Networks for Mental Health Clients: Resources and Solution

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragnfrid Eline Kogstad ◽  
Erik Mönness ◽  
Tom Sörensen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Mental Health Clients

Autobiographies of mental health clients: Psychologists' uses and recommendations.

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer S. Clifford ◽  
John C. Norcross ◽  
Robert Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Clients

scholarly journals A group based smoking cessation pilot programme for community mental health clients in Sydney

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Devine ◽  
Raquiba Jahan Khan ◽  
Karen Bedford ◽  
Wei Zhuang Jiang ◽  
Henry Lim
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Mental Health Consumers ◽  
Mental Health Clients

Introduction: This article describes the process and evaluation of a smoking cessation support programme for mental health clients in Sydney.Aim: The objective of the study was to assess a group-based smoking cessation support model for community mental health clients.Methods: Two community mental health services participated; 29 clients received free NRT products and weekly education for 12 weeks on: effects of smoking, nicotine dependence, NRT use, withdrawal process and the benefits of quitting. Evaluation included face-to-face interviews, telephone or postal survey using a semi-structured questionnaire.Results: The baseline (n = 29) and follow-up (n = 14) surveys showed reduction in the number of cigarettes (30 to 21) smoked a day (55% vs. 36%). At one month 47% (n = 19) were confident about stopping smoking permanently whereas 19% (n = 14) reported the same after six months. Participants reported concerns of health effects, illness, physical symptoms (77% n = 27) and financial cost (93% n = 27) were the motivating factors in quitting. None of the findings was statistically significant.Conclusions: Community based interventions to address the rate of smoking in this group is needed. Financial and health benefits can be used as motivating factors, and integration of smoking cessation assistance in treatment and rehabilitation of mental health consumers would be useful.

“It’s Recovery United for Me”: Promises and Pitfalls of Football as Part of Mental Health Recovery

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Magee ◽  
Ramón Spaaij ◽  
Ruth Jeanes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
Alternative Setting ◽  
Mental Health Clients

This paper builds on the concept of mental health recovery to critically examine three football projects in the United Kingdom and their effects on the recovery process. Drawing on qualitative research on the lived experiences of mental health clients and service providers across the three projects, we explore the role of football in relation to three components of recovery: engagement, stigma, and social isolation. The findings indicate how the projects facilitated increased client engagement, peer supports, and the transformation of self-stigma. The perception of football as an alternative setting away from the clinical environment was an important factor in this regard. Yet, the results also reveal major limitations, including the narrow, individualistic conceptualization of both recovery and stigma within the projects, the reliance on a biomedical model of mental illness, and the potentially adverse consequences of using football in mental health interventions.

Former patients give mental health clients a boost

JAMA ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 272 (22) ◽  
pp. 1726-1727
Author(s):  
R. Voelker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Clients
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