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Irish Child Health Database - Peer Reviewed Papers

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community mental health services

Your search returns 8 documents

• 1.   A Different Description of Trauma: A Wider Systemic Perspective--A personal insight

  This article offers the authors personal views based on her experience of working with families affected by the Troubles.

  

  Abstract:

  This special edition of Child Care in Practice provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the years since the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998 and the period leading up to this. This article offers my personal views based on my experience of working with families affected by the Troubles. As a family therapist I am trained to view matters systemically; at its broadest more...

  Geography:

  Northern Ireland

  Child Care in Practice, Vol: 10 Page: 167-184 2004
  Arlene Healey

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• 2.   A national survey of community psychiatric nurses and their client care activities in Ireland

  This study aimed to identify the predominant approaches to care used by community psychiatric nurses and the theoretical bases of their practice

  

  Abstract:

  Increasingly, people with mental health problems in Ireland and in the UK are receiving mental health services in the community. The aim of this study was to identify the predominant approaches to care used by community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) and the theoretical bases of their practice. One hundred and sixteen questionnaires out of 203 sent to CPNs throughout Ireland were returned, more...

  International Classification:

  Practice/knowledge - Mental and behavioural disorders-psychiatric care

  Categories:

  psychiatric care

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs, Vol: 14 Page: 179-88 April 2007
  J. McCardle; K. Parahoo; H. McKenna

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• 3.   Day service programmes for people with a severe intellectual disability and quality of life: Parent and staff perspectives

  This study examines the contributions of a community and campus based day programme to the quality of life of programme participants with a severe level of intellectual disability from the perspective of parents and staff.

  

  Abstract:

  This study focuses on the contributions of a community and campus based day programme to the quality of life of programme participants with a severe level of intellectual disability from the perspective of parents and staff. Qualitative interviews were carried out with parents and staff to explore the contribution that the two programmes had to participants' quality of life in the 6 more...

  International Classification:

  Mental and behavioural disorders - Mental retardation - intellectual disabilities

  Categories:

  intellectual disability

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  J Intellect Disabil, Vol: 12 Page: 153-72 June 2008
  E. Hartnett; P. Gallagher; G. Kiernan; C. Poulsen; E. Gilligan; M. Reynolds

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• 4.   Learning disability among referrals to a community child psychiatric service

  The aim of this study was to describe the frequency of learning disability (IQ < 70) among referrals over a period of six years to a community child psychiatric service in a socially disadvantaged area of Dublin

  

  Abstract:

  Objectives: We sought to determine the frequency of learning disability (IQ < 70) among referrals over a period of six years to a community child psychiatric service in a socially disadvantaged area of Dublin. Methods: We investigated the gender and age characteristics, as well as the frequency of speech and language, emotional, and behavioural problems in this group. We tried to more...

  International Classification:

  Health service provision

  Categories:

  community child psychiatric service

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, Vol: 22 Page: 19-21 2005
  Ciaran S. Clarke; Brian Houlihan

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• 5.   Linden services for children--extern: A holisitic approach in working with young people with challenging behaviours and their families

  This article is a description of the service that is provided by "Linden Services for Children" and how this fulfils the requirements of both the Children (NI) Order 1995 and the Criminal Justice (Children) Order 1998

  

  Abstract:

  Linden Services for Children is part of Extern, which is a charity within the voluntary sector. The organisation's mission is to promote social inclusion and help reduce the incidence of offending behaviour. Extern operates in both the North and South of Ireland and works with children, families, adults and communities. It aims, through assessment and carefully tailored services, to more...

  Geography:

  Northern Ireland

  Child Care in Practice, Vol: 12 Page: 169-178 2006
  Angela Devlin

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• 6.   Supporting families with a mentally ill parent: European perspectives on interagency cooperation

  This article discusses policies and practices in several European countries concerning interactions between child welfare and community mental health services in meeting the needs of children with mentally ill parents

  

  Abstract:

  Compared policies and practices in several European countries concerning interactions between child welfare and community mental health services in meeting the needs of children with mentally ill parents. Social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, pediatricians, and therapists responded to case vignettes within group discussions. Ss also reported perceptions of responses more...

  Geography:

  International

  Child Abuse Review, Vol: 10 Page: 351-365 2001
  Rachael Hetherington; Karen Baistow

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• 7.   When Trauma Goes On

  This article discusses the approach employed by the NOVA service in helping people manage the impacts of specific and continuous traumas.

  

  Abstract:

  Supporting the needs of those affected by the conflict in Northern Ireland requires more than just a clinical consideration of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. We need to recognise that for many, the violence and disruption to life has been all too pervasive and is often still present. This article describes the approach employed by the NOVA service in helping people manage the impacts of more...

  Geography:

  Northern Ireland

  Child Care in Practice, Vol: 10 Page: 185-191 2004
  Martin Murphy

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• 8.   Working with a Child Exposed to Community and Domestic Violence in Northern Ireland: An Illustrated Case Example

  This case report discusses the author's multi-modal therapeutic practice with a 7-year-old boy referred to the Family Trauma Centre, following paramilitary assaults on his father.

  

  Abstract:

  The focus of this paper is on the author's multi-modal therapeutic practice with a 7-year-old boy referred to the Family Trauma Centre, following paramilitary assaults on his father. The work also addresses the boy's experience of domestic violence. The work is contextualised in terms of the "Peace Process" in Northern Ireland, including the establishment of the Family Trauma more...

  International Classification:

  Health service provision

  Categories:

  multi-modal therapeutic practice

  Geography:

  Northern Ireland

  Child Care in Practice, Vol: 10 Page: 193-203 2004
  Stephen Coulter

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