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Not Just Talk: What a Psychosocial Primary Care Mental Health Service Can Do.
- Source :
- Practice (09503153); Dec2010, Vol. 22 Issue 5, p293-307, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This descriptive study reports on the development of an inner-city, multi-disciplinary primary care mental health service which expanded its mainly problem-based casework approach to incorporate a well-being focus in the form of community development, health promotion, teaching and training. Work undertaken over one year (2006-2007) with a total of 762 service users is examined for the service population's profile and the range and type of direct work undertaken, with examples. Indirect work is outlined to illustrate the service's collaboration with other mainstream and third-sector agencies. Mutual learning across settings and disciplines was central to this mixed, psychosocial portfolio. The team's work reflected their perspective that mental disorder and mental health are embedded in community processes, and that policies and services which seek to remedy mental disorder by individualised therapies or risk management alone may fail to address the connectedness of service users' mental health with their material, social and personal environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANALYSIS of variance
COMMUNITY mental health services
DEMOGRAPHY
MENTAL depression
EMPLOYMENT
HEALTH care teams
HEALTH promotion
HOSPITAL health promotion programs
IMMIGRANTS
RESEARCH methodology
METROPOLITAN areas
HEALTH outcome assessment
PRIMARY health care
QUESTIONNAIRES
CASE studies
GOVERNMENT policy
SCALE items
TREATMENT effectiveness
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09503153
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Practice (09503153)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 104938389
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09503153.2010.517830