The mental health team.

Training for Mental Health Team

We have on a number of occasions expressed pride and pleasure at the satisfactory rate of development for providing postgraduate training in the country. Even the undergraduate training programmes are now a subject of keen interest and frequently evince mature or meaningful dialogues. It is the existing state of training opportunities, which do or do not exist for psychiatric auxiliaries or par...

The management of change in a community mental health team.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is the most widely studied and well supported evidence based community management model for persons with severe mental illness (SMI) in the mental health literature. This report details the replacement of an unevaluated generic model of case management with ACT in a metropolitan inner city area. This is work in progress and detailed patient outcomes are not y...

Boring but important: the community mental health team.

Risk Assessment in Mental Health: Introducing a Traffic Light System in a Community Mental Health Team

AIMS To reports a study in which action research approach was utilised to introduce a new system of risk assessment, based on traffic lights, into a community mental health team. BACKGROUND Risk management is a serious concern in community mental healthcare where there is less direct, real-time supervision of clients than in other settings, and because inadequate management of risk can have f...

Prioritising referrals to a community mental health team.

BACKGROUND Current national policies encourage prioritisation of people with severe mental illness (SMI) as well as the development of a primary care-led National Health Service. Where resources for mental health are limited, there is a potential conflict between the needs of people with SMI and the much more common depressive and anxiety disorders that form the bulk of the mental health worklo...