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Black History Month 2024: Reclaiming a positive narrative about Black people navigating mental health services
This blog post was written for the College's celebration of Black History Month 2024. The theme of this year’s Black History Month (BHM) is reclaiming narratives, and on my mind is how we reclaim a positive narrative about Black people navigating mental health services. A difficult and uncomfortable topic to discuss but honesty is needed to help in finding sustainable solutions. It’s a long arduous journey but we are on it and must persevere.
Creating an innovative youth mental health service in the United Kingdom: The Norfolk Youth Service
Young people attempting to access mental health services in the United Kingdom often find traditional models of care outdated, rigid, inaccessible and unappealing. Policy recommendations, research and service user opinion suggest that reform is needed to reflect the changing needs of young people.
Clinician-rated and self-reported psychotic-like experiences in individuals accessing a specialist Youth Mental Health Service
The prevalence of psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) was explored in a sample of 14- to 25-year-olds with non-psychotic mental health difficulties. Associations between PLEs, psychopathology, functioning, trauma history, and pathways to care were examined. Data were collected for 202 young people. Clinicians rated PLEs using the Primary Care Checklist (PCC) and functioning using Global Assessment Scales.
Prescribing quality improvement: reducing high-dose antipsychotic use
Evidence of efficacy for high-dose antipsychotic therapy (HDAT) and antipsychotic combinations (AC) is lacking, while evidence of harm is compelling. Significantly higher proportions of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) patients were being prescribed HDAT and AC compared with the national averages. Here, the authors describe a quality improvement program to rationalise and reduce HDAT and AC prescribing in NSFT, to bring it in line with, or below, the national average.
Creating an innovative youth mental health service in the United Kingdom: The Norfolk Youth Service
Young people attempting to access mental health services in the United Kingdom often find traditional models of care outdated, rigid, inaccessible and unappealing. Policy recommendations, research and service user opinion suggest that reform is needed to reflect the changing needs of young people.
Pathways to care of young people accessing a pilot specialist youth mental health service in Norfolk, United Kingdom
Pathways to care (PtC) are a means of examining and understanding routes into mental health care. It is important to examine PtC in order to identify ways in which individuals access services, as well as highlighting barriers or delays to appropriate treatment. This study aimed to examine PtC experienced by young people accessing a pilot specialist youth mental health service (SYMHS) for those with non-psychotic, severe and complex mental health conditions in Norfolk, UK.
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