Crisis Services and Hospital Crises : Mental Health at a Turning Point

by Tomlinson, Dylan; Allen, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781840143898
• ISBN10: 1840143894
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

This book examines the impasse in the development of alternatives to hospitals, drawing on the experience of both crisis service users and providers and evidence of the effectiveness of such services. The book concludes that crisis services are preferred by users, are usually more cost effective and often more clinically effective than acute admission wards. The book offers a number of policy suggestions to advance the role of crisis services, such as the creation of monitoring, evaluation and development centres, crisis service programmes being established on a national basis and joint training between crisis services and hospitals being set up.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Contributors	viii
What are Crisis Services?	1	(12)
Kevin Allen
Crisis Intervention Theory and Method	13	(12)
Tony Leiba
Care, Control and Evidence in British Mental Health Policy: The Context for Crisis Services	25	(14)
David Pilgrim
The Wokingham MIND Crisis House	39	(8)
Pam Jenkinson
The Liverpool Mental Health Crisis Service and Its Effectiveness	47	(15)
Sarah Matthews
West Birmingham Home Treatment Service: `Right at Home'	62	(16)
Val Radway
The Effectiveness of Crisis Services	78	(24)
Kevin Hogan
Sarah Orme
Community Psychiatric Nursing's Role in Managing Crises	102	(19)
Paul Godin
Christopher Scanlon
Crisis Mental Health Nursing: Developments in Accident and Emergency Departments	121	(17)
Tom Clarke
Christopher Scanlon
Expemplary Crisis Services in Europe and the USA	138	(22)
Shulamit Ramon
Progress and Prospects for Crisis Services	160	(15)
Dylan Tomlinson
Index	175