Mental health articles
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Challenging inequality
People can experience feelings of stigma from being prescribed and taking psychotropic medication. Furthermore, the side effects of medication can compromise a person’s social and vocational networks, for example Boumans et al. found that the presence of orofacial dyskinesia had a negative effect in a work-related interview process. Mental health workers need to be mindful […]
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Respecting diversity
This is having the ability to deliver interventions which takes full account of the diverse nature of service users in terms of age, disability and gender, and demonstrating respect for their culture, spirituality and sexuality. Issues relating to race and culture are particularly relevant. ‘Black and minority ethnic patients have worse access to, experience of, […]
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Working in partnership
This develops the focus of collaboration in care, engaging not only service users and their families in the process of management but those involved in the delivery of care, enabling clear and effective lines of communication and establishing clear understanding regarding the function of medication management. Service users and their families can have different […]
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The skills of the workforce
All members of the care team have responsibilities in managing service users’ medication. The Ten Essential Shared Capabilities are areas of aptitude considered to be a requirement of all mental health workers, and these represent basic principles that underpin positive practice This framework of competencies, developed by service users, carers and practitioners, provides a blueprint […]
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Teaching medication management to practitioners
Teaching medication management to practitioners In a cluster randomised controlled trial, Gray et al. developed a medicines management training package and taught it to 60 com munity mental health nurses (CMHNs). The educational programme lasted 80 hours and was based on the Compliance Therapy Manual. Community mental health nurses were taught to deliver the intervention […]
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Developing support to our own feelings
Some form of outside support, help, or therapy is often needed for this process, and at various stages or times throughout the process. The support can come from a “companion”—a friend, a partner, f latmate, support group or enlightened relative—who can: ●share with us the difficulties of not getting the right sort of love; ●share […]
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Identify your feeling patterns
If you can recognize a particular pattern of yours, then you have a good chance of changing it. If you cannot recognize it yet, then you will not be able to change it. Try to see what patterns of thinking and feeling happen, or what takes you into a bad mood, or what you usually […]
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How to Work through Resentments
How to Work through Resentments?This is where anger at a person or situation is turned back inwards and repressed. The result is often a negative emotion like resent ment. And this tends to stick: or you get stuck with it. There is a fairly straightforward process by which one can work through resentment, but it […]
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How to Express Emotions Positively
How to Express Emotions Positively Find a safe channel to express one’s emotions The initial reservation about expressing one’s emotions can help to keep all of one’s negative feelings well locked in. However, this is also the initial “edge” that we have to get over. We do not necessarily want to open the floodgates wide, […]
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Bio-psycho-social model
Bio-psycho-social model The bio-psycho-social model is becoming increasingly popular in the USAand in Europe, as it recognizes a combination of factors in the formation of illness or disease and in its treatment. It is an adaptation of the medical model, but it seems to be more effective, and precludes a multi-disciplinary approach. It is recognized […]
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