Dual diagnosis : improve your skills in mental health and substance misuse

Caroline Hawkings ; Helen Gilburt ; Liz Aram ; Gabrielle Ayerst ; Vivienne Evans

mental health ; substance misuse ; multi-disciplinary services ; good practice ; families ; dual diagnosis ; mental illness ; Social studies, Social Work ; Medicine and Dentistry, Clinical Medicine ; Biological Sciences, Psychology ; mental health and mental health care, mental health care, dual diagnosis ; management and organisational development, quality control, good practice ; families, children and young people, families ; health and health care, substance misuse ; mental ...

As part of a joint initiative, Rethink, Turning Point and Adfam created this series of resources to help build awareness, develop good practice and encourage partnership working for those interested in any aspect of dual diagnosis. The resource comprises a toolkit for practitioners; a leaflet for families, friends and carers; and a networking tool consisting of a poster and booklet offering suggestions about mapping services and featuring contact details for some relevant national ...

Rethink ; Turning Point ; Adfam

website

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What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)?

The Alzheimer’s Society

Alzheimers disease ; dementia ; neuroanatomy ; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) ; people with mental health problems ; Social studies, Social Work ; mental health and mental health care, mental health problems, dementia ; mental health and mental health care, mental health problems, dementia, Alzheimers disease ; 06 People, groups and communities, 06.01 Service user groups, 06.01.09 People with health problems, 06.01.09.1 People with mental health problems

The Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading care and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers. They produce information and advice sheets to support those affected by dementia. Prions are infectious agents that attack the central nervous system and then invade the brain, causing dementia. The best-known prion disease is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD. This information sheet provides an overview of the symptoms and different types of CJD.

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Copyright: © 2008 Alzheimer's Society

WHO Guide to Mental and Neurological Health in Primary Care

WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training for Mental Health ; World Health Organisation

primary care ; mental health care ; interprofessional relations ; collaboration ; health professionals ; people with mental health problems ; mental health problems ; neurology ; learning disabilities ; diagnosis ; psychotherapy ; Social studies, Social Work ; Medicine and Dentistry, Clinical Medicine ; Biological Sciences, Psychology ; management and organisational development, management, collaboration, interprofessional relations ; health and health care, health care, primary ...

This resource stresses that good mental healthcare is a collaborative effort and that people in primary care need to work more closely with those in mental health services. The Primary Care Team, the Community Mental Health Team as well as families and friends, self-help and community groups who provide crucial support to people with a whole range of mental disorders need to talk to one another, respect each other's contribution and jointly agree who will provide which service ...

Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd

Narrative Text ; website ; information resource

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Copyright: http://www.mentalneurologicalprimarycare.org/copyright_information.asp

Feelings and behaviours : taboo

Professor Mark Doel ; Professor Steven Shardlow

black and minority ethnic people ; patients ; student social workers ; practice teaching ; Social studies, Social Work ; education, training and employment, education, students, student social workers ; education, training and employment, education, social work education, practice teaching ; people, groups and communities, black and minority ethnic people ; health and health care, patients ; 08 Human development, behaviour and living, 08.02 Behaviour, attitudes and values, 08.02.01 ...

This resource is one of a set of exercises and activities taken from the book 'Modern Social Work Practice' written by Mark Doel and Steven Shardlow. This activity examines the gap which sometimes exists between what they are feeling ’inside’ and what they are saying ’outside’, and explores the student's response to it. It focuses on how the student handles taboo subjects. The activity also concerns the student's view of learning. How do beliefs, feelings and actions influence ...

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This resource is one of 26 exercises and activities available on the below referenced web page. This page accompanies the publication 'Modern Social Work Practice' by Mark Doel and Steven M Shardlow.

Copyright: © M. Doel and S.M. Shardlow. Produce from the website which accompanies Modern Social Work Practice (2005) Ashgate.

Meeting skills : topical islands

Professor Mark Doel ; Professor Steven Shardlow

practice teaching ; student social workers ; Social studies, Social Work ; education, training and employment, education, students, student social workers ; education, training and employment, education, social work education, practice teaching ; 10 Social work education and research, 10.01 Practice learning

This learning object is one of a set of exercises and activities taken from the book 'Modern Social Work Practice' written by Mark Doel and Steven Shardlow. This activity introduces the student to a twelve-point framework for running a meeting; as a participant or as a chairperson, the activity gives the student a basis to judge good practice.

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This resource is one of 26 exercises and activities available on the below referenced web page. This page accompanies the publication 'Modern Social Work Practice' by Mark Doel and Steven M Shardlow.

Copyright: © M. Doel and S.M. Shardlow. Produce from the website which accompanies Modern Social Work Practice (2005) Ashgate.

Standards of Care & Regulation of Care Services in Scotland

Charlotte Pearson ; Sheila Riddell

child protection services ; care homes ; child care ; child minding ; community care ; regulation ; inspection ; standards ; evidence ; Social studies, Social Work ; social care services, child protection services ; families, children and young people, child care ; management and organisational development, quality control, regulation ; management and organisational development, quality control, inspection ; management and organisational development, quality control, standards ...

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of how some care services were regulated prior to April 2002 (when a new non-departmental body, the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (the Care Commission), assumed responsibility for regulating care services). In particular, the Review focuses on the nature of the evidence gathered and the standards applied. The research also identifies some challenges for the new process of regulation.

The Stationery Office

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Copyright: Crown Copyright 2003

Ageism, Age Discrimination and Social Exclusion

Alisoun Milne ; Brian Gearing ; Joanne Warner

mental health ; age discrimination ; social exclusion ; older people ; ageing ; Social studies, Social Work ; living and life events, life events, ageing ; government and social policy, social exclusion ; criminal justice, law and rights, rights, discrimination, age discrimination ; mental health and mental health care, mental health ; people, groups and communities, older people ; 06 People, groups and communities, 06.01 Service user groups, 06.01.07 Older people ; 09 Social ...

In this learning object you are asked to consider issues which are central to understanding the experience of ageing and older age in contemporary society. Ageism, age discrimination and social exclusion diminish the quality of life which older people may enjoy. They also threaten their mental health. In spite of their negative effect on the daily lives of older people, however, ageism and age discrimination are often unrecognised, ignored, or even compounded in health and social ...

Narrative Text ; conceptual learning object ; interactive resource

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Copyright: Social Care Institute for Excellence

Reducing harm and promoting recovery : a report on methadone treatment for substance misuse in Scotland

SACDM Methadone Project Group

harm reduction ; recovery ; methadone ; substance misuse ; child protection services ; medication ; Social studies, Social Work ; social care services, child protection services ; health and health care, substance misuse ; health and health care, medication

This paper has been produced by an expert group of clinicians and academics in the field of substance misuse in Scotland and aims to advise ministers on the place of methadone in the treatment of substance misuse in Scotland.

Scottish Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse

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Crown Copyright

Working Together to Improve Adult Protection - Risk Assessment and Protection Plan

Joint Improvement Team

risk assessment ; social work ; health ; carers ; Social studies, Social Work ; social work and social workers, social work ; people, groups and communities, carers ; social work and social workers, social work methods, risk, risk assessment ; health and health care, health

The Adult Protection Shared Learning Initiative identified the need for developments in risk assessment, protection planning and standards. This paper presents the standards and the risk assessment and protection planning formats.

Scottish Government

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© Crown copyright 2007

Telecare in Scotland: benchmarking the present, embracing the future.

Joint Improvement Team

telecare ; evidence base ; Social studies, Social Work

It is difficult to quantify the benefits that arise from telecare. One reason is that telecare involves “a complex intervention consisting of a hybrid of technology and people-based services applied to a varied client-base with wide-ranging pathology and social capital”. Another more basic one is that most telecare services to date are too new. This report provides statistics on the use of tlecare in each Scottish local authority in an effort to create an evidence base.

Joint Improvement Team

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