Residential care for mentally ill people is a growing part of wider services for this client group. It is characterised by four features of mental illness which condition good practice: the need to treat clients as competent adults, to help them process reality, respond to the role of medical...
Randolph FL, Lindenberg RE, Menn AZ: Residential facilities for the mentally ill: needs assessment and community plan- ning. Community Mental Health Journal 22:77-89, 1986I. S. Levine and J. Parrish, "Comments on residential facilities for the mentally ill: needs assessment and community plan...
Minimally regulated and sometimes unlicensed, these facilities principally serve 2 groups, often cared for together—older adults and the deinstitutionalized mentally ill. Although excellent homes exist, some facilities tend to warehouse the disabled in substandard buildings and to employ few skilled staff...
Descriptive data derived from initial assessment interviews and from standardized 3-month progress reports are presented on 1684 homeless, chronically mentally ill veterans who were contacted at nine sites in a national Department of Veterans Affairs outreach program. Levels of involvement in the program...
摘要: Staff Perspectives. Research indicates that depression and anxiety are serious mental health problems of older adults. These mental health problems often lead to physical health problems or exacerbate existing health conditions ultimately contributing to premature年份: 2002 ...
The TAPS Project 29: Residential care provision in North London: a representative sam- ple of ten facilities for mentally ill people. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1995;41(4):257-67.Lewis, A., Trieman, N. (1995) The TAPS Project 29: Residential care provision in North London: a representative...
Focuses on a study which compared services utilization for mentally ill substance abusing patients discharged from a residential treatment program in Washington. Methodology; Results and discussion; Limitations of the study; Implications for behavioral mental health services....
Conclusions: The time is ripe for a rethinking of the concept of asylum for the mentally ill and for an examination of innovative settings that fulfil this function. Declaration of interest: The study was funded by The Community of St Antony and St Elias. Unless otherwise stated, the views ...
Quality standard for drug use disorders | Guidance and guidelines | NICE covers the treatment of adults (18 years or over) who misuse opioids, cannabis, stimulants or other drugs in all settings in which care is received, in particular inpatient and specialist residential and community-based trea...
people living in residential services ‐ under medical care of local GP psychological management in residential setting psychological or psychiatric disorder development legislation and impact on delivery of residential services legislative framework and protection from abuse or exploitation of vulnerable adults...