Psychology & Psychiatry : Mental Health

This motivational enhancement group model has broad application for all treatment providers, counselors, therapists, educators and other human service practitioners working with problem and/or pathological gamblers. It allows for the facilitation and implementation of motivational interviewing strategies within five group sessions. This group process and approach elicits and effects positive change in the lives of people struggling with life choices and personal behavior, affecting their overall health, wellbeing and functioning. *Note – throughout this manual “changing your behavior” is “changing your gambling behavior.” more...

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Mental health services make it possible to deliver effective interventions. The way these services are organized has an important bearing on their effectiveness and the ultimate fulfilment of the aims and objectives of national mental health policies. This module begins with a description and analysis of the current forms of mental health service organisation found around the world. The current status of service organisation is reviewed and recommendations are made for organising mental health services, based on an optimal mix of a variety of services. The main recommendations are to integrate mental health services into general health care systems; develop formal and informal community mental health services; and promote and implement deinstitutionalization once alternative services are in place. more...

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The term person centred care has been widely used, misused and ill defined. It is used frequently in the aims and objectives for dementia care services and provision, although in practice what lies behind the rhetoric can be questionable. This book gives fresh definition to the important ideas behind and the implementation of person centred care for people with dementia. Dawn Brooker explains the four key elements of person centred care that comprise the VIPS model: Valuing people with dementia and those who care for them (V); treating people as Individuals (I); looking at the world from the Perspective of the person with dementia (P); and a positive Social environment in which the person living with dementia can experience relative well being (S). With an emphasis on practical application, Person Centred Dementia Care provides care organisations with clear, accessible guidelines on how to put the VIPS model into operation for effective care that is 'fit for VIPs'. Part 2 of the book comprises the VIPS organisational reflection tool, which care providers can use to assess how well they think they are doing at providing person-centred care. This will be essential reading for practitioners working with and policy makers responsible for people with dementia at all levels. more...

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Shortlisted for 2004's Mind Book of the Year Award . Writing a prize-winning play; spending a week doing nothing but build Lego constructions; sinking all his savings into wildly impractical money-making schemes - these are just some results of the periods of intense creative energy Brian Adams has experienced throughout his adult life. As a sufferer of bipolar disorder, he has also been hospitalised several times with debilitating depression and undergone electric shock treatment, and gained and lost eleven jobs. This engaging, humorous and sometimes startling account gives rich insight into how it feels to experience bipolar disorder. It is illuminating reading for people with mental health problems, and their family and professional carers. '' more...

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Since it was first published, the Pool Activity Level (PAL) instrument has become the framework for activity-based care systems in a variety of settings for clients with dementia. Following two years of feedback from practitioners and carers, the author has refined the instrument, expanding its use to form occupational profiles for people who have had strokes and those with learning disabilities as well as those with dementia. This substantially revised edition includes photocopiable activity checklists and plans which take into account users' life histories and help to match abilities with activities, as well as new features such as an outcome sheet and re-formatted checklists. Guiding the reader through a series of clear, practical steps and using case studies to enable them to understand, plan and implement activities for clients, this is an essential resource for any practitioner or carer wanting to provide fulfilling occupation for clients with cognitive impairments. The instrument is now standardised and will also be of interest to strategic level providers and commissioners of health and social care services as a standardised assessment and outcome measure. In the draft practice guideline for dementia, The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE, 2006), the PAL instrument is recommended for activity of daily living skill training and for activity planning.   more...

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