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Children's mental health and wellbeing
Published in Jackie Musgrave, Health and Wellbeing for Babies and Children, 2022
Social prescribing is an alternative approach to medical prescribing and recognises that medication and other therapies are not necessarily the answer to some mental health problems. This is especially so for adolescents who have become socially excluded and are living in deprivation. Opportunities for young people to meet and socialise through community-based activities, such as sport, are being offered by Local Authorities and charities (Horner, 2018). Social prescribing is proving to be a successful way of using resources that are already available and highlights the importance of giving adolescents the right kind of opportunities to feel part of a community.
Practical knowledge (1) - people, communities and health workers
Published in Nigel Crisp, Turning the World Upside Down Again, 2022
The Bromley by Bow Centre, described in Chapter 9, was one of the pioneers of social prescribing and uses it in conjunction with its many other community-based activities. As noted there, social prescribing is a top-down activity. The clinician prescribes. I talked with Dr Sir Sam Everington, one of the pioneers of the whole movement, who explained that they had used the term 'prescribing' because it was something that doctors were familiar with, and it would therefore be easier to persuade them to be involved. Doctors as well as patients have to be tempted to engage. The term is also probably useful for some patients because it adds authority to an activity and encourages them to participate.
Person-centred Care
Published in James Matheson, John Patterson, Laura Neilson, Tackling Causes and Consequences of Health Inequalities, 2020
There are several models for social prescribing, but most involve a link worker who liaises with individuals to access local and community support. Rather than looking at social prescribing as something health professionals do, many proponents consider it to be a holistic process which includes clinical, non-clinical and community organisations but is also embedded in the community as a whole in an organic manner. This systemic model extends beyond signposting: handing out leaflets and the passive direction of individuals to other organisations or groups. It enables the development of community infrastructure which promotes the growth of health-creating communities.
Untapped potential of nature-based activities for mental health: need for further research
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2022
Judy L. Wong, Richard A. Powell
While the beneficial contribution of NBAs to mental wellbeing at the individual level is increasingly recognised, existing research has not translated into a significant growth in commissioned NBAs in the UK public healthcare system as part of social prescribing. Social prescribing recognises that people’s health is determined by a range of factors (social, economic and environmental) and seeks to address health needs holistically by enabling general practitioners (GPs), nurses and other health and care staff to refer people to various local non-clinical services (Office for Health Impact & Disparities, 2022). Indeed, from the perspective of treating those with diagnosed mental health problems, NBA-based interventions constitute a very small part of patient care pathways (Hinde et al., 2021).
Cognition-oriented treatments and physical exercise on cognitive function in Huntington’s disease: protocol for systematic review
Published in Physical Therapy Reviews, 2022
Katharine Huynh, Leila Nategh, Sharna Jamadar, Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis, Amit Lampit
Studies assessing physical exercise or cognition-oriented treatment, either alone, combined with each other, or with other non-pharmacological interventions, will be considered. The intervention must include a minimum of 3 h of physical exercise or cognition-oriented treatment, either independently or combined with each other. Additionally, for interventions combining physical or cognitive interventions with other non-pharmacological interventions, the physical exercise and cognitive intervention components must constitute at least 50% of the total intervention. Physical exercise is defined as a structured activity that can improve endurance, strength, balance, or any combination of these aspects. This includes walking, cycling, resistance training, balance training, and mind-body exercises. Cognition-oriented treatments are defined as enhancing, restorative or compensatory interventions that aim to improve cognitive performance or reduce specific impairments. This includes cognitive stimulation, cognitive training, and cognitive rehabilitation [7]. Social prescribing interventions that do not provide an intervention will be excluded.
Evaluation of a Choir as a Non-Medical Intervention for Children with Asthma: BreathStars
Published in Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 2020
Louise Bowden, Tony Long, Heather Henry
There has been a fundamental shift in the current health policy with a focus on new models of care encouraging integration of services, and a role for community and volunteer services through social prescribing (Foot, 2012; NHS England, 2014). Social prescribing is seen as an asset-based approach, linking patients to services outside formal health care with the focus on the creation of health rather than prevention of illness; in particular, improving the health and well-being of people with long-term conditions (Foot, 2012; Marshall & Easton, 2018). There will be an increasing need to integrate the learning and the evidence from ventures using this approach to capture the outcomes within multiple contexts. An example is provided here of a novel initiative which provides the opportunity to appraise both the potential and the challenges of this approach in the different context of children and families.