BACKGROUND Severe mental illness is responsible for a significant proportion of burden of diseases in Iranian population. People with severe mental illnesses are more likely to have high rates of non-attendance at follow-up visits, and lack of an active follow-up system, particularly in the country's urban areas that has resulted in the revolving door phenomenon of rehospitalizations. Therefore...

Aftercare and rehabilitation services are as important as any other aspect of treatment of major mental disorders. Most centers in developed countries have well organised Aftercare programmes in their community as well as hospital based mental health centers. In India though rehabilitation programmes are offered, they are very few and quite inadequate. That there is a need for developing rehabi...

This article examines social workers’ perceptions of youths’ participation and how their influence practice towards youths in aftercare. The is based on qualitative interviews with 38 workers child welfare services (CWS) collaborative services. were analysed using a hermeneutic approach. We identified two practices different objectives: that accommodates formal requirements for supports empower...

INTRODUCTION Due to growth in cancer survivorship and subsequent resource limitations, the current UK position of follow-up services is unsustainable. With people living longer after a cancer diagnosis, supported self-management for ongoing treatment-related chronic conditions is a fundamental component of aftercare services. Alternative models to traditional hospital aftercare require consider...

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper was to study the collaboration between emergency departments (EDs) in general hospitals and community health services (CHS) in Norway when providing psychosocial care and aftercare to patients treated in EDs following a suicide attempt. We wanted to explore the extent to which quality indicators at the hospital level measured in 1999 and 2006 could predict the p...

Disabled young people leaving care often experience a more complex transition to adulthood than other youths. Still, policy and services can fail recognize the intersection between person's experiences disability. Drawing on data from qualitative interview study with 14 social workers who work aftercare in Norwegian child welfare services, we investigate workers' professional judgements about s...

BACKGROUND Research has indicated that more intense treatment is associated with better outcomes among clients who are appropriately matched to treatment intensity level based on the severity of their drug/alcohol problem. This study examined the differential effectiveness of community-based residential and outpatient treatment attended by male and female drug-involved parolees from prison-base...

Introduction The study explores the theme “stigma” and how it was experienced by participants in MOT82, a music therapy project field of mental health aftercare Norway. is explored through research questions: How stigmatisation aftercare? And: Which strategies can be used to prevent stigma context aftercare?Method method for based on User Interviewing User, evaluation services, where service us...

background: although evidences emphasize on the importance of aftercare programs to achieve continuity of care, different studies have revealed controversial results about the outcome. the objective of this study was to investigate the effect of aftercare program on outcome measures of patients with severe mental disorders. materials and methods: of a total 123 eligible patients with severe men...