scholarly journals Key workers in the Multi-disciplinary Team

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 419-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Multi Disciplinary Team

Today the practice of psychiatry often involves a multi-disciplinary team comprising doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, community psychiatric nurses and physiotherapists. Each discipline has its own contribution to make to the planning of care programmes for patients in the context of a team approach.

An Alternative to Group Homes

1978 ◽  
Vol 132 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. H. Anstee
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
County Council ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Short Stay ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Statutory Duty

SummaryThis paper describes a supported lodgings scheme as an alternative to group homes. It is pointed out that the County Council has a statutory duty to finance supported lodgings and that schizophrenics are ideally suited to such a scheme. Some short-stay, the majority of the ‘new’ non-demented long-stay, and a large number of the ‘old’ long-stay patients have been discharged by this means. Aftercare facilities were important, as nearly half attended the day centre and over one third were regularly visited in their lodgings by the community psychiatric nurses and social workers.

scholarly journals Inner-city general practice population of people with schizophrenia

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Blair ◽  
Carl Deaney
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Social Disability ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Practice Population

A survey of people with schizophrenia in an inner-city general practice was undertaken to identify levels of social disability, service receipt and patterns of care received. Contacts with general practitioners, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses and social workers were quantified, and the nature of the contacts assessed. Overall social disability for the group was marked (mean Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) rating 55.5). There was a correlation coefficient of +0.899 between the numbers of agencies involved and the overall HoNOS scores suggesting appropriate targeting of care. While there were few differences in the HoNOS ratings of the various contact subsets, there were significant differences in the extent of agencies contact with patients, the greatest number of contacts being in general practice. Limited information sharing, the absence of a formal shared care plan and sectorisation of services are thought to obstruct more effective general practice involvement in care.

scholarly journals Patient, client or service user? A survey of patient preferences of dress and address of six mental health professions

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 305-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Mcguire-Snieckus ◽  
Rosemarie Mccabe ◽  
Stefan Priebe
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Professional Background ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Significant Difference

Aims and MethodA positive therapeutic relationship is essential to psychiatry and should take into account patients' preferences. Preferences of 133 community care patients were surveyed regarding dress and forms of address of six professions. Participants' sex, age, ethnicity and diagnosis were recorded.ResultsNinety-eight per cent of participants expressed a preference. While most preferred to be called ‘patients' by general practitioners (75%) and psychiatrists (67%), there was no statistically significant difference in preference for the term ‘patient’ or ‘client’ when used by community psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists or social workers. Participants over the age of 40 preferred the term ‘client’. Asymmetrical relationships were preferred with general practitioners and psychiatrists, evidenced by a preference to be addressed by first name (71% and 68%, respectively), to address the professional by title (81% and 80%, respectively), and the professional to be ‘smartly’ dressed (67% and 66%, respectively).Clinical ImplicationsA more differentiated approach may be suggested by taking professional background and some demographic characteristics into consideration.

scholarly journals A workshop for relatives of people with chronic mental illness

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 206-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Mullen ◽  
Paul Bebbington ◽  
Liz Kuipers
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Chronic Mental Illness ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team Approach ◽  
Close Relatives

The District Services Centre of the Maudsley Hospital deals with the care and rehabilitation of people with chronic mental illnesses. Three independent teams of mental health professionals comprise nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. A multidisciplinary team approach is used in the assessment and management of patients. Most of the patients are either day-patients or ‘supportive’ patients who attend less frequently. The service is thus very much community based and orientated, and the support and involvement of close relatives in the care of the patients is seen as both necessary and desirable.

Further Observations on the Practice of Community Care in Salford

1988 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Wooff ◽  
D. P. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Supportive Supervision ◽  
Stable Case ◽  
Professional Managers ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Attached Community

Differences in the clinical characteristics of clients have not been found to account for the interprofessional differences in community psychiatric nurses' and mental health social workers' practice in Salford. We found the consultant-attached mental health social workers, who worked closely with the specialist psychiatric team and who received supportive supervision from their professional managers, maintained stable case-loads, but the primary-care attached community psychiatric nurses, who were isolated from the specialist psychiatric team, and who received little supportive supervision from their professional managers, carried case-loads of increasing size. Failure to improve the way in which services for the mentally ill in the community are co-ordinated is likely to perpetuate the worst characteristics of life in the old back wards into the era of ‘community care’.

scholarly journals Survey of roles of community psychiatric nurses and occupational therapists

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam Filson ◽  
Tony Kendrick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Anxiety Management ◽  
Community Psychiatric

The roles of community mental health professionals may overlap and need clarifying. A survey is described of 95 occupational therapists (OT) and 200 community psychiatric nurses (CPN), of their views on their respective roles, and information on current practices. Administering medication and crisis intervention were regarded as specifically CPN roles, yet 26% of CPNs did not regularly administer medication. Half of the CPNs' clients were not chronically mentally ill, and over two-thirds of the nurses regularly carried out counselling and anxiety management. Assessing activities of daily living and work skills were seen specifically as OT tasks, yet 60% of the OTs did not usually assess work skills in practice. Roles overlapped considerably, suggesting that a more efficient approach might be to develop a generic core training for community mental health workers.

scholarly journals Community mental healthcare for people with severe personality disorder: narrative review

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bauke Koekkoek ◽  
Berno van Meijel ◽  
Giel Hutschemaekers
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Severe Personality Disorder

Aims and methodTo assess the contents and the theoretical and empirical base of community mental healthcare (CMHC) for people with severe personality disorder. Medline and PsycINFO databases and handbooks were searched from 1980, as well as a recent meta-analysis and systematic review of trials in which CMHC served as the control condition.ResultsCommunity mental healthcare is a long-term community-based treatment within a supportive atmosphere, aimed at stability rather than change. Mostly offered by community psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists and social workers, it lacks a formal structure, as well as theoretical underpinnings that guide interventions.Clinical implicationsCommunity mental healthcare might profit from a more systematic application of effective ingredients from other treatments.

scholarly journals Patient, client or service user? A survey of patient preferences of dress and address of six mental health professions

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (08) ◽  
pp. 305-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus ◽  
Rosemarie McCabe ◽  
Stefan Priebe
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Professional Background ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Significant Difference

Aims and Method A positive therapeutic relationship is essential to psychiatry and should take into account patients' preferences. Preferences of 133 community care patients were surveyed regarding dress and forms of address of six professions. Participants' sex, age, ethnicity and diagnosis were recorded. Results Ninety-eight per cent of participants expressed a preference. While most preferred to be called ‘patients' by general practitioners (75%) and psychiatrists (67%), there was no statistically significant difference in preference for the term ‘patient’ or ‘client’ when used by community psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists or social workers. Participants over the age of 40 preferred the term ‘client’. Asymmetrical relationships were preferred with general practitioners and psychiatrists, evidenced by a preference to be addressed by first name (71% and 68%, respectively), to address the professional by title (81% and 80%, respectively), and the professional to be ‘smartly’ dressed (67% and 66%, respectively). Clinical Implications A more differentiated approach may be suggested by taking professional background and some demographic characteristics into consideration.

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