...Frank R. Burbach; Sarah K. Amani Purpose Mental health service improvement initiatives often involve the setting of targets and monitoring of performance. The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of appreciative enquiry (AE), a radically different but complementary approach...

... self‐directed support in mental health services – part of the government's personalisation agenda, which requires a move from current social care commissioning, where a person is matched to available services, to one where a person self‐assesses, has an agreed support plan and then with appropriate...

.... Special clinical topics. Parental psychiatric disorders. Women and learning disability. Legislation and policy. Afterword. Mental health services Gender Oxford Textbook of Women and Mental Health Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal...

... learning for mental health services. Originality/value Given the paucity of literature on complaints in psychiatry, this study describes some in detail the nature of patients' complaints and one organisation's actions to improve patient services as a result of these complaints. Another source...

... Key DHBs, who include those providing regional forensic services and funders,will be consulted before mid-2007 for their views on service direction and planning for this timeframe. The Census of Forensic Mental Health Services 2005 can be viewed at www.moh.govt.nz...

... fully recovered and nearing discharge. Needing minimal therapeutic nursing input. (2) = Low‐medium dependency, between 1 and 3. Colin Ridley can be contacted at: Colin.Ridley@bch.nhs.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Nursing Mental health services Adolescents Patient...

... management Balanced scorecard Mental health services But what data should be the basis for these indicators? Historically, many measurement systems were dominated by financial issues. However, financial measurements just tell the results of actions already taken (Kaplan and Norton, 1992, p. 71...

...Jo Lamb-White © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Mental health services Equality Quality control World Health Organization Glaring inequalities for people with mental disorders addressed in new WHO effort. Keywords: Mental health services, Equality...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Mental health services Performance management United Kingdom Health chiefs explain how they aim to break the mould and become one of the first mental health trusts to achieve foundation status Keywords: Mental health...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Public health Mental health services Health education United Kingdom Europe, Middle East and Africa UK - Royal College of Psychiatrists’ response to Public Health White Paper – Mental illness is different from physical...

... Exercise your way to good mental health – Mental Health Action Week Sunday 27 March-Saturday 2 April 2005 Keywords: Mental health services, Health education, Depression services To mark Mental Health Action Week 2005, the Mental Health Foundation will be leading a campaign to raise...

... Elaine A HanzakRadcliffe Publishing2005ISBN 1 85775 655 X Keywords: Depression, Mental health services, Patients, Patient care Eyes Without Sparkle is a powerful medical autobiography describing the journey followed by the author into, through, and out of puerperal psychosis...

... involvement. It identifies some of the practical issues faced by consumers and staff in working collaboratively, but also points to the benefits for all the stakeholders. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Research and development Mental health services User studies The importance...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Mental health services Public interest Legislation Service delivery King’s Fund Mental Health Bill Keywords: Mental health services, Public interest, Legislation,Service delivery Revised mental health bill...

...Louise Bell Through a literature review, this paper demonstrates that there is a lack of knowledge about quality management within the mental health services. Ideas about quality from the wider services sector are then discussed, and a case study of a mental health scenario is provided...

...) (Dube et al., 1996; Kaldenberg, 2001; Paton et al., 1999). These challenges may compromise the generalizability of these results. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Control Mental health services Emotional dissonance Carers Health services Patient...

... and how these might affect their lives. The majority thought the psychiatrist was helping them with their mental health problems, was someone with whom they could easily talk and he/she was keeping them informed of their own progress (see Table III). Quality Mental health services National...