Within the past decade, the accessibility and availability of mental health resources (including staff, hospital beds, and associated resources used for inpatient and outpatient visits) has increased substantially [13,14,15]. Research has also increasingly quantified and classified mental illness in ...
Mental health services are defined as “the means by which effective interventions for mental health are delivered.” The effectiveness of these interventions is determined by how mental health services are organized within different sociocultural,...
They were off on one of their regular jaunts with Thames21 (me) and are led (herded) by Trevor, who works with Age UK and the Blue Ribbon Foundation, a charity supporting men’s health awareness. This time we wanted to walk the Ravensbourne from its source to Downham, which is a sub...
Conflict and violence can impact on the mental health of children and young people, who are in a crucial stage of their personal growth. Not much is known
The focus of district mental health program (DMHP) under the aegis of National Mental Health program is to provide mental health interventions for all at the community level. Women are identified as a vulnerable group to develop mental health conditions. Suicide in general has been recognised as...
The reasons proposed for this increase in PREDV pertain to deficiencies in mental health care planning and financing such insurance issues, proportional reductions in mental health care expenditures, deinstitutionalization, reduced numbers of acute psychiatric care beds, as well as more clinical reasons ...
Mental health-care adaptations for infection-control reasons could have been detrimental to people whose treatment has been reduced or who have been confined alone in hospitals with greatly reduced therapeutic programmes. Services have promoted changes to facilitate access, including widespread use of tele...
11DM: I think the multidisciplinary team of health care professionals as a whole is involved when a patient is admitted: the psychiatrist as well as the psychiatric nurse, the social worker, the occupational therapist, the psychologist euh ... the individual counselor. Everyone has his/her own...
A scientific understanding of clinical risk management (CRM) in mental health care is essential for building safer health systems and for improving patient safety. While evidence on patient safety and CRM in physical health care has increased, there is limited research on these issues in mental hea...
A mental health admission may present a window of opportunity for inpatients to reevaluate the impact of their substance use. This study will aim to evaluate the effectiveness of a targeted brief motivational intervention in improving engagement in treatment and to assess how feasible and acceptable ...