Institutional and Community Approaches to the Provision of Mental Health Services

Vandiver, Vikki L.

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“…Social workers will also need to engage in more macro-level interventions on the mothers' behalf, such as advocating for programs addressing mothers' needs for parenting skills, counseling about parenting issues, support groups with other parents, and/or educational resources to help them explain their own mental/emotional problems to their children and significant others. Mentalhealth providers should develop partnerships with other agencies to create a comprehensive approach (Blanch, Nicholson, & Purcell, 1994;Vandiver, 1997).…”

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Mothers with a Mental Illness: Stressors and Resources for Parenting and Living

Mowbray

Schwartz

Bybee

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Families in Society

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Policy changes as well as improved treatment and rehabilitation practices mean that more women with mental illness are carrying out parenting roles. However, mental-health services have only given limited attention to parenting problems and benefits for clients with psychiatric disabilities. Previous research has focused more on mothers' clinical characteristics, and less on the social and economic contexts in which parenting occurs. The present report involves a large, primarily minority sample of women with serious mental illness who are mothers and who are being served in the public mental-health system of a large urban area. We sought to collect more comprehensive information to better understand their situations and improve service provisions. The women in the study report experiencing severe financial strains and health problems, even when compared with other low-income, urban-based populations. Many also have experienced crises, loss of significant others, assaults, and other negative life events that are very stressful, along with a high number of chronic hassles. They do have resources available to them, through interpersonal supports, religion, and mental-health services. The discussion focuses on implications for micro- and macro-practice to improve these women's lives, their parenting, and the potential outcomes of their children.

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Mothers with a Mental Illness: Stressors and Resources for Parenting and Living

Mowbray

Schwartz

Bybee

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Families in Society

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“…State hospitals and community-based agencies should provide a continuum of rehabilitation services to reflect that expectation. Active collaboration and exchange of resources and technologies between rehabilitation programs, regardless of their settings, are necessary for an optimal continuum of services (see Vandiver, 1997). In particular, future state hospital downsizing efforts should focus on application of rehabilitation technology across the entire service system and on the need for greater communication and service coordination between various settings.…”

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The state hospital and the community: An essential continuum for persons with severe and persistent mental illness

Monroe-DeVita

Mohatt

1999

New Directions for Mental Health Services

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“…The mental health systems in the UK, the USA, and Canada have undergone and continue to undergo many changes (Capponi, 2003;Coddington, 2001;Davis, 2006;Henderson, 2001;Linhorst, 2006;Van Diver, 1997). In fact, some very strong language is occasionally used to describe the meaning and strength of these changes.…”

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“…In fact, some very strong language is occasionally used to describe the meaning and strength of these changes. They have been referred to as a paradigm shift (Nelson et al, 2001b;Van Diver, 1997), a 'major cultural shift' (Sowers, 2005: 760), or as 'dramatic changes' (Van Diver, 1997: 17). As Lammers and Happell (2003) argue, there is a lack of literature examining how the systems changes have been implemented in practice.…”

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Embracing an Emerging Structure in Community Mental Health Services

Grant

2010

Qualitative Social Work

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This article investigates evidence of mental health system change at two community mental health organizations. Using ethnographic methods, the study explored the relationships, culture and characteristics of organizations employing consumer-survivors in designated positions, examining the ways in which they reflect traditional medically-based services and/or more recovery, partnership-oriented services. The data suggest that two structures of mental health services are evident at the organizations: the dominant structure and the emerging structure. It is argued that relationships based on hope, respect and affection appear to encourage the presence of the emerging structure.

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Institutional and Community Approaches to the Provision of Mental Health Services

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Mothers with a Mental Illness: Stressors and Resources for Parenting and Living

Mothers with a Mental Illness: Stressors and Resources for Parenting and Living

The state hospital and the community: An essential continuum for persons with severe and persistent mental illness

Embracing an Emerging Structure in Community Mental Health Services

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