The community care movement in mental health services: Implications for social work practice

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kam-shing Yip
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Psychiatric Social Work

This article is a critical review about the community care movement in mental health services in the UK and the USA. This movement has important implications for psychiatric social work practice. First, social workers have to enrich the concept of community care with those of normalization and social integration. Second, they have to develop an accepting community for mental patients and outpatients. Finally, they are the most suitable people to integrate formal and informal community care.

Cultural Competency in Mental-Health Services

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Sung Hong ◽  
Wynne Sandra Korr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Salient Factor ◽  
Helping Process

Since the 1980s, cultural competency has increasingly been recognized as a salient factor in the helping process, which requires social-work professionals to effectively integrate cultural knowledge and sensitivity with skills. This entry chronicles the history of mental-health services and the development of cultural competency in social-work practice, followed by a discussion of mental-health services utilization and barriers to services among racial/ethnic minorities. Directions for enhancing cultural competency in mental-health services are also highlighted.

scholarly journals Issues of power in social work practice in mental health services for people from Black and minority ethnic groups

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Jupp
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Minority Ethnic Groups ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Minority Ethnic

This article provides a critique of some theories of power when applied to social work practice within mental health services for people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Current research into the experiences of black and minority ethnic mental health service users is analysed to demonstrate the centrality of power within social work practice. The article argues that social work should be viewed as a process of change that allows for the individuality of the service user, alongside the necessity of social workers acknowledging power differentials and taking responsibility for their own power in order to develop a continual critique of the empowerment process.

Integrating Mental Health Services through Reimbursement Reform and Managed Mental Health Care

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mechanic
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Integration Of Services ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

People with serious and persistent mental illness require a range of community services typically provided by different specialized agencies. At the clinical level, assertive team case management is the strategy commonly used to achieve integration of services across specialized sectors. The USA also has used various financial and organizational approaches to reduce fragmentation and increase effectiveness, including development of stronger public mental health authorities, use of financial incentives to change professional and institutional behavior, requirements to allocate savings from hospital closures to community systems of care, and introduction of mental health managed care on a broad scale. These approaches have potential but also significant problems and there is often a large gap between theory and implementation. These US developments are discussed with attention to the implications for mental health services in the UK.

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