AIMS To review developments in recovery-focussed mental health services internationally. METHODS Two forms of 'recovery' which have been used in the literature are considered, and international examples of recovery-focussed initiatives reviews. A 'litmus test' for a recovery-focussed service is proposed. RESULTS 'Clinical recovery' has emerged from professional literature, focuses on sustai...

PURPOSE To test the extent to which adolescent victimization predicts subsequent use of mental health services in a prospectively assessed nationwide sample of high school students. METHODS Data were analyzed from 4590 adolescents participating in Waves I and II of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. In-home self-report data were collected on four types of personal victimiz...

background and aims: the most important risk factors threatening health of young people include improper diet, inactivity, smoking, intentional and accidental damages, drugs, aids/hiv and psychiatric disorders. considering increased risky behaviors among teens during 2 last decades, it was decided to evaluate the effects of education and consultation roles in relation to health risks on perform...

Increasing emphasis is being placed on the importance of information technology to improve the safety and quality of healthcare. However, concern is growing that these potential benefits will not be equally distributed across the population because of a widening digital divide along racial and socioeconomic lines. In this pilot study, we surveyed 31 Medicaid beneficiaries to ascertain their int...

The concept of using nonphysician health professionals to perform basic medical services traditionally provided by physicians emerged in the mid-1960’s amidst widespread concern over a perceived physician shortage. Variously referred to as new health practitioners, mid-level practitioners, or physician extenders, they were seen as a way to increase the availability of health care services, part...

Future Personal Satellite Services (PSATS) represent a trendy research area due to its importance that it may have in the our daily lives. Being the personal services related to users, they deal with services and devices whose nature is pervasive. All these concepts have been clearly addressed in the Personal Satellite Services 2011 Conference (PSATS’11) through different interesting talks and ...

BACKGROUND Electronic Patient Health Records (ePHRs) contain information created, accessed, monitored and maintained by patients. This paper describes how an ePHR called myhealthlocker™ was used by people with severe mental illness to monitor and input their own health-related outcomes, and whether they derived any benefit from it. METHOD Individuals using local secondary mental health servic...

just about the only thing that you can do for eight hours a day’. Work is something that many of us take for granted, but many people with mental illness are excluded from work and are unlikely to gain or sustain open employment. This is despite the fact that the majority of people with mental illness wish to be engaged in meaningful activity. Being ‘in work’ has important implications for the ...