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Shaping Conditions for Recovery: A narrative on a Homeless Man with Severe Mental Illness in a Modern Welfare State
AbstractDespite extensive research, interdependent problems such as severe mental illness and homelessness cause extreme disparities and health inequity. Handling complexity in careseeker –caregiver networks remains challenging. The local public health services in a Dutch city were enriched with a specialized team. An ethnographic policy evaluation was conducted to identify the essentials of an effective approach. We use the narrative of a homeless man who experiences psychoses for an in-depth analysis of the team’s functionality. The narrative data shows the challenges of caregiver networks and underlines the need to ...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - October 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Treatment and Rehabilitation of People with Intellectual Disability or Autism Spectrum Disorders and Co-occurring Mental Disorders
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - October 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Internalized Stigma and its Correlates Among Opioid Agonist Treatment Service Users in Nepal
This study aimed to assess internalized stigma among OAT service users in Nepal and to explore its association with sociodemographic characteris tics, lifetime mental disorders and quality of life. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 231 OAT service users, the survey instrument included the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview for DSM-5, Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Inventory (ISMI) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life –BREF. Factors associated with quality of life and internalized stigma were investigated using bivariate and multivariate analyses. More than half (56.28%) of respond...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Involvement of People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Carers in Research
This article describes the views of carers of PWID from BAME communities. It discusses their view of participation in research and additional support and approaches needed to promote meaningful inclusion of PWID from BAME communities. During focus groups, the Carers provided a number of suggestions which include considering diversity, additional measures to improve inclusivity and accessibility of the content of a training programme designed to involve PWID in research. Overall, the feedback gained indicates the need for a personalised approach where participants and researchers are able to get to know each other well enou...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Supporting Carers Within a Forensic Intellectual Disability Community Team: The Development of a Carers Strategy
AbstractThe needs of carers of those discharged from inpatient forensic intellectual disability (ID) services are under researched. The role of the carer changes significantly during the transition from the person being cared for by the inpatient service, to a community setting. The carer may feel responsible for managing mental, physical and forensic needs. Therefore, carers of those with ID and forensic needs in the community require specialist support and understanding. Following the establishment of a new community ID team in Norfolk, the lack of guidelines for supporting this unique group of carers was noted. As such,...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - October 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

“With me and for me”: Perspectives of Service Users with Complex Health and Social Needs on Mental Health Care
This study seeks to address the following question: what mental health care experiences are valued by individuals with complex health and social needs? Semi-structured interviews were conducted with fifteen individuals experiencing complex health and social nee ds, including homelessness. Interview data was analyzed using an interpretive description approach. Participants valued services and providers who caredwith them and for them. Care for service users with complex needs required flexible processes and individualized care planning and treatment.Care with service users demanded genuine, collaborative interpersonal inter...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - October 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Diagnostic Overshadowing & amp; Implications on Treatment & amp; Rehabilitation of People with a Genetic Syndrome and Co-existing Psychiatric Conditions: A Case Report of 22q11.2 Duplication Syndrome
AbstractMental health comorbidity is higher in those with learning disability; in the absence of a full and robust diagnostic clarification, diagnostic overshadowing is a particular problem. Central to this concept is attribution of symptoms to an existing diagnosis rather than a potential co-morbid condition. Clinicians need to be aware of the dire consequences of diagnostic overshadowing including misattribution, underdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, delayed and or poor treatment, stigmatization and consequently a reduction in the quality of life. This is a case report of a young male with mild LD with longstanding mental health...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - September 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The Role of Play in Developing Social Skills Among Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Palestine
AbstractPrevious studies have shown that play has a positive effect on social skill acquisition among children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Accordingly, this study aims at examining the effect of play in developing social skills among a small group of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Palestine. The sample of this study consisted of seven children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder between the ages (6 –10) years old. All of them are receive rehabilitation services at the Palestinian Institute for Childhood in Palestine. The children were chosen for the intervention from verbal children ...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - September 17, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Developing a Patient and Public Involvement Training Course for People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Leicestershire Experience
AbstractThere is a lack of meaningful involvement of people with intellectual disability in research, outside of the context of study participation. There is a need to develop adapted means of facilitating Patient and Public Involvement when working with people with intellectual disability, that takes account for their level of neurodevelopmental functioning. In this article we describe a Patient and Public Involvement course developed for people with intellectual disability, developed by professionals working with this group, which was subsequently piloted in Leicestershire UK. Different versions of the course were develo...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - September 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Rasch Analysis of the Behavioral Assessment Screening Tool for Adolescents (BAST-A) in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
AbstractThe Behavioral Assessment Screening Tool for Adolescents (BAST-A) assesses behavioral and emotional symptoms and experiences in adolescents with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). We used modern test theory to validate the BAST-A by analyzing person-level and item-level properties of its subscales (Negative Affect& Fatigue, Executive& Social Function, Risk Behaviors) in a sample of adolescents with concussion/mTBI. Following Rasch Guidelines in Rehabilitation Research (RULER), we assessed unidimensionality, item hierarchies, targeting (including items at different severity levels), and strata. The Executiv...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - September 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Utilisation of Health Technologies for Physical Health of People with Learning Disabilities: Point of Care Testing
This article will explore the application of POCT in this group of individuals for whom evidence informs us die up to 25  years earlier when compared to the general population, and physical health disease account for the overwhelming majority of premature deaths. This is a narrative review exploring the use of POCT for physical health of people with ID. (Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health)
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - September 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability in the Elderly: A Baseline Audit
AbstractIntellectual disabilities (ID) are lifelong conditions characterized by deficits in general intellectual functioning and adaptive skills with onset in the developmental period. Globally, the prevalence of ID varies by age and the prevalence in older adults is considerably lower than that in the general population indicating that people with ID (PWID) may have shorter life spans. Despite the substantially increased mean life expectancy compared to the past, PWID continue to experience poor care often dying twenty years earlier than others. Higher rates of mental illnesses, increased risk of physical health morbidity...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - September 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Elections and Mental Health: A Narrative Review
AbstractThe electoral system is one of the most fundamental elements of representative democracy. Despite the significant role of elections in the democratic process of a nation, they are seen as extremely unpleasant events, often leading to significant stress among vulnerable sections of the population. Moreover, there is a growing concern regarding the political exclusion of people with mental illness (PwMI) often due to the lack of proper legal safeguards. Moreover, election related violences also significantly impacts the mental health of individuals, especially those with mental health conditions. There is a need to s...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - August 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Rehabilitation and Community Mental Health Staff Attitudes towards Stress and Help-seeking: An Exploratory Study
This study aimed to explore attitudes towards stress including the experience, disclosure and treatment of stress, and barriers towards help-seeking, including stigma and concerns around confidentiality. An online quantitative survey was sent to staff working in inpatient rehabilitation and secondary community teams in a south London NHS trust. Stress was measured using the CORE-10 to assess clinical distress within the last week, and the Stress and Help-seeking scale assessed lifetime stress. The sample was skewed towards staff (n  = 51) who were heterosexual, able-bodied, females, working full-time, and nurses. Most ...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - August 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Masked Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: It ’s a Headache!
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - August 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research