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Introduction of meditation to meet service users’ spiritual needs

01 April 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article describes how, to help meet service users’ spiritual needs and to reduce their anxiety and distress, meditation sessions were implemented on an acute...

How the Productive Ward scheme gives staff more time to care

08 February 2012

Mental Health Practice

Feature

The Productive Ward initiative allows nursing staff to bring about changes in the workplace, streamline systems of work and release time to care for clients. As an...

Assessing the risk of aggression and violence among service users

08 February 2012

Mental Health Practice

Feature

For each client in an acute mental health setting, continuous holistic assessment that systematically records data, predicts risk and updates management helps to...

Family work in adult acute psychiatric settings

01 April 2013

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

Meeting a service user with his or her family in acute care settings to discuss their thoughts, hopes and concerns provides important therapeutic benefits. It can...

Home - based

01 September 1998

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Mental health services should offer 24- hour care for people in acute mental health crises (DoH 1996). For people with severe mental illness this is most commonly...

Len Bowers: the man behind the Safewards model

10 February 2016

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Colin Parish interviews the driving force behind the Safewards approach, Len Bowers, as he prepares to retire from the profession.

Introducing the role of therapeutic liaison worker in acute care

08 June 2012

Mental Health Practice

Feature

An acute mental health ward successfully piloted the role of therapeutic liaison worker (TLW) to co-ordinate multidisciplinary team members, healthcare assistants,...

A survey of the work of occupational therapists in inpatient mental health services

01 March 2005

Mental Health Practice

General

With recent changes in the delivery of mental health services articulated in the National Service Framework for mental health (Department of Health (DoH) 1999) and...

Home treatment team reduces numbers of acute admissions

01 July 2010

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article describes the work of the Belfast home treatment team. It describes the structure of the service, its skills base and aspects of the work it does. It...

Organising an inpatient psychotherapy group

01 April 2013

Mental Health Practice

Art & science

Psychotherapy groups can be established on acute inpatient wards to benefit clients and contribute to staff development. A communication group has been running for...

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