Community mental health teams in London are being increasingly stretched

Community mental health teams in low- and middle-income countries.

The dearth of trained mental health professionals and the huge gap in providing accessible services in many low- and middle-income countries have led to the identification of alternate providers of care in these countries. Community mental health teams seem to fill this lacuna in some of these places. This editorial addresses issues of the need for such teams, their composition, responsibilitie...

Recovery practice in community mental health teams: national survey

BACKGROUND There is consensus about the importance of 'recovery' in mental health services, but the link between recovery orientation of mental health teams and personal recovery of individuals has been underresearched. AIMS To investigate differences in team leader, clinician and service user perspectives of recovery orientation of community adult mental health teams in England. METHOD In ...

Family Intervention Police Teams as a Community Mental Health Resource

London Looks at Mental Health

Boroughs recently spent an intensive weekend in two study conferences concerned with mental health problems in their areas: one run by the NAMH and the other by the London Boroughs Committee. Since April 1st of this year, these authorities have been responsible for running education, health, children's and welfare services previously administered by county and county borough councils. The NAMH'...

Individual factors and perceived community characteristics in relation to mental health and mental well-being.

BACKGROUND It has been argued that though correlated with mental health, mental well-being is a distinct entity. Despite the wealth of literature on mental health, less is known about mental well-being. Mental health is something experienced by individuals, whereas mental well-being can be assessed at the population level. Accordingly it is important to differentiate the individual and populati...