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Background
Published in Bo Chen, Mental Health Law in China, 2023
Community mental health services have a special status. For decades, psychiatrists and policymakers have acknowledged its importance, but the reality remains that for most Chinese people ‘the only form of service patients and their family could receive is the institutionalised treatment and care’.79Community service was encouraged by the government as early in 1958 by the Five-Year Plan for Mental Health (1958–1962)80and emphasised again in Opinions on Strengthening Mental Health Work (1987). Yet, nearly 60 years later, the National Mental Health Work Plan 2015–2020 admits that ‘the community rehabilitation system for mental disorders has not been built’.81
Mental Health/Social Services
Published in Michele A. Finneran, Surviving Domestic Abuse, 2020
In this chapter, mental health/social services can involve individual/family mental health therapists and social workers, local community mental health centers and shelters. All of these services encompass therapeutic services for victims of domestic abuse. Services may also include case management services, individual, family and group therapy interventions and temporary housing.
Assessment of the psychiatric patient
Published in Peter Kopelman, Dame Jane Dacre, Handbook of Clinical Skills, 2019
Peter Kopelman, Dame Jane Dacre
Social support and community treatment are also central to the management of and rehabilitation from a mental disorder – what has been previously employed (successfully or otherwise) should be noted, as should the local community mental health team involvement with the patient and the name of a key worker or community psychiatric nurse. These contacts may prove vital sources of additional information where history is concerned.
Quality of clinical management of cardiometabolic risk factors in patients with severe mental illness in a specialist mental health care setting
Published in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2022
Petter A. Ringen, Elisabeth Lund-Stenvold, Ole A. Andreassen, Torfinn L. Gaarden, Cecilie B. Hartberg, Erik Johnsen, Silje Myklatun, Kåre Osnes, Kirsten Sørensen, Kjetil Sørensen, Arne Vaaler, Serena Tonstad, John A. Engh, Anne Høye
The aims of the current study were to evaluate the standards of cardiovascular risk monitoring and risk reducing interventions in the Norwegian mental health services by investigating to what extent the (non-official) standards of the Healthy Heart Tool were followed for (a) risk assessment, and (b) risk specific interventions, and to investigate potential factors affecting whether the Tools’ recommendations were followed. Norwegian mental health care is catchment area based and is divided in specialist health care and community health care. The specialist health care is organised in hospitals, which provide both in- and outpatient services. The community health care includes general practitioners and community mental health workers, e.g. providing low threshold services, home visits etc.
Argentina: A mental health system caught in transition
Published in International Journal of Mental Health, 2021
Dermot J. Hurley, Martin Agrest
Participants were asked to respond to the following four broad questions:Have you seen any significant changes in the mental health system since 2010 in regards to how patients are cared for both as inpatients and outpatients? If yes, which changes? If no, why not?What community mental health services are available for people living with serious and persistent psychiatric illness? Are there any special provisions or programs in place to help the most vulnerable patients who have been discharged from monovalent institutions since 2010?Are there reliable figures available on the current rate of deinstitutionalization? How much of the health budget is allotted to community based mental health?Does the concept of recovery have meaning in the provision of mental health services?
Surviving Being Black and a Clinician During a Dual Pandemic:Personal and Professional Challenges in a Disease and Racial Crisis
Published in Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2020
Allen E. Lipscomb, Wendy Ashley
Within the context of COVID-19, access to mental health services requires innovative adaptations to traditional mental health treatment. Because it is difficult to ensure that clients are adequately protected in an in-person therapy setting, virtual platforms are increasingly utilized as the primary methods of clinical intervention. Further research is needed to ensure that best practices in engagement, assessment, intervention, treatment planning and evaluation are translatable to telehealth contexts. Telehealth, training for mental health providers in utilizing telehealth effectively, insurance coverage for telehealth models, and virtual support (including substance or addiction groups) are all approaches that have been rapidly implemented to ensure that community mental health needs are addressed (Choi et al., 2020; National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2020; Smith et al., 2020).