Clarissa Giebel finds a lot to discuss in a recent qualitative systematic review about living positively with dementia.
[read the full story...]Living positively with dementia: findings from a qualitative systematic review
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Mental health service users on Twitter: a platform for feedback and support?
Sarah Knowles considers the challenges facing researchers using Twitter to find out more about mental health service user experiences of feedback and support.
[read the full story...]How can we improve mental health services for young people? Ask them
Sarah Knowles appraises and summarises a thematic analysis of young people’s views of UK mental health services, which calls for greater involvement of young people themselves in redesigning services to be more engaging and accessible.
[read the full story...]Joint Crisis Plans: empowering service users with psychotic disorders
Raphael Underwood reports on a thematic analysis of joint crisis plans, which explores what service users with psychotic disorders want in a mental health crisis or relapse.
[read the full story...]Stigma in bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder: time for a cultural shift.
Andrew Shepherd summarises a critical realist analysis that looks at experiences of stigma in people with bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. He concludes that a profound social change in public and professional attitudes is necessary before mental health stigma can be effectively eradicated.
[read the full story...]Major barriers implementing family involvement for patients with psychosis
Raphael Underwood summarises a recent systematic review looking at implementing family involvement in the treatment of patients with psychosis.
[read the full story...]Support staff question research findings, professional knowledge or training if not from directly working with service user in question
As you know, the Elf service exists to ensure that the best current knowledge is made available to support staff. It is possible to see from our tag cloud that we cover a good deal of material produced that relates to supporting people described as having challenging behaviour. We know that staff skills, competence and [read the full story…]
Pregnancy Support Pack can support better interactions between parents with learning disabilities and maternity services
Access to information about pregnancy is crucial for parents to be. For people with learning disabilities, faced with a variety of new choices to make, this is especially true. However, there is little information currently available about pregnancy for people with learning disabilities. As the number of women with learning disabilities becoming pregnant increases, it [read the full story…]
Involvement in risk management process wanted by majority of sample of people with learning disabilities
Risk management is an integral part of supporting people with learning disabilities. The researchers in this study were interested to look at the involvement of people in making decisions about risks in their lives. They wanted to look at the how staff considered the individual’s ability to assess the associated risks and make an informed [read the full story…]