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Passionate about our services Social and Rehabilitation Psychiatry Richard Laugharne Peninsula MRCPsych Course 2013
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Passionate about our services Truth about dangerous mental patients let out to kill http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10358251/Truth-about-dangerous-mental-patients-let- out-to-kill.html by Andrew Gilligan 9:00PM BST 05 Oct 2013
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Passionate about our services
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Tyrer 2013 “society alternates between embracing community psychiatry as an inclusive and positive way of treating the mentally ill, and an exclusive psychiatry at other times, when those with mental illness are perceived as dangerous….and detained in institutions”
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Passionate about our services History of psychiatric services Moral treatment Asylums: the invention of the psychiatrist Outpatients and voluntary care Day hospitals, deinstitutionalisation and resettlement Community care and ‘recovery’ Specialist teams: Assertive Outreach, EIT, HTT Reinstitutionalisation Community treatment orders DISCUSS ASYLUMS
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Passionate about our services The asylum era What happened to the mentally ill before the asylum era? Moral treatment: Pinel, Tuke Two eras of asylum building in 1830s and 1880s Positive aspects Negative aspects recognised early
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Passionate about our services Problems with asylums Overcrowding Loss of individuality: Goffman Neglect Stigmatisation Outpatients 1890s Voluntary patients 1930s
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Passionate about our services New developments in 20 th century Adolf Meyer: knowledge of patient as an individual, more to assessment than diagnosis Therapeutic communities in WW2 Day hospitals Community mental health teams
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Passionate about our services The Three Hospitals Study Three large asylums with different care regimes Clinical and social functioning differed and closely associated with these regimes In schizophrenia, the course of the disorder is affected by the social environment (Wing and Brown 1961)
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Passionate about our services Deinstitutionalisation Psychiatric inpatients one third in 1990 compared to 1950 International phenomenon ‘Unholy alliance between therapeutic liberals and fiscal conservatives’ Less ill patients first
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Passionate about our services TAPS Study Leff 1997 Patients in two large London asylums Baseline clinical and social functioning ‘Stayers’ and ‘leavers’ 5 years follow up
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Passionate about our services TAPS outcomes Few patients admitted permanently Many had repeated short acute admissions Nearly all preferred being out in the community Almost none vagrant or lost to FU Small number need institutional care
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Passionate about our services Stigma Asylums – out of sight, out of mind Poor understanding – fantasies and myths Media distortion Fears of violence: increased risk, little change since 1950 Taylor and Gunn 1999
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Passionate about our services Combating Stigma Understand illnesses Understand treatments Seeing individuals Giving a voice to mentally ill Social inclusion
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Passionate about our services Definitions of severe mental illness Separation between ‘severe mental illness’ and ‘common mental disorders’ Reflects previous divisions between ‘psychosis’ and ‘neurosis’ etc. Not well defined and a cause of controversy e.g. severe OCD, severe depression, severe BPD Reflects commitment (Burns 2004)
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Passionate about our services The three Ds Diagnosis: psychotic illness, major affective disorder Duration: at least two years Disability: inability to work or fulfil a major role e.g. parent Bachrach 1988
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Passionate about our services Service Delivery
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Passionate about our services Recent history 1954-1990s: deinstitutionalisation and the birth of community teams (antipsychiatry) 1959 MHA to protect the public from psychiatrists 1990s: the service user movement and evidence based medicine 2000s: specialist community teams 2000s: recovery movement 2008: community treatment orders 2013: beds down, detentions up, forensic beds up
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Passionate about our services Evaluating services EFFECTIVENESS EFFICIENCY EQUITY ACCEPTABILITY ACCESSIBILITY APPROPRIATENESS
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Passionate about our services Service delivery in the 21 st century Recovery Community mental health teams Assertive outreach teams Early intervention teams Home treatment teams/ crisis intervention Community Treatment Orders Employment
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Passionate about our services Recovery A philosophy rather than a treatment programme How to live well with persistent illness Kindness, compassion, respect and hope of recovery Not that different to Tuke User led and doctor led
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Passionate about our services Recovery Narrative and evidence based International Study of Schizophrenia (Harrison 2001) More than half have favourable outcomes at 15 and 25 years Late recovery effect Developing vs developed world
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Passionate about our services Recovery The expert patient Hope and optimism Self help, collaboration with sufferers, self reliance Roberts and Wolfson 2004, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 10,37-49
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Passionate about our services Assertive Outreach Small caseloads – about 10 patients Visit at least twice weekly Assertive follow up Treat at home Emphasis on engagement Emphasis on medication Deliver on health and social care needs Support carers
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Passionate about our services Key papers in Assertive Outreach Stein and Test 1980 More effective than standard care in US UK700 1999 See paper by Tom Burns, Lancet, 1999 Killaspy 2008 WHY?
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Passionate about our services Other teams Early intervention teams – Discuss the ‘for and against’ Home treatment teams/ crisis teams Community mental health teams Debate: what makes a service last?
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Passionate about our services Employment SMI: 18% in employment in 2000 90% would like to work Barriers: – High rate of unemployment – Benefits trap – Stigma – Low expectations of professionals – Lack of evidence base – Illness vs. disability model
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Passionate about our services Employment Work schemes – very different Supported employment Prevocational training Look at paper on IPS 2009 Look at paper on why IPS not implemented 2013
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Passionate about our services Issues today and tomorrow Specialists vs. generalists Functionalisation vs. integration Physical health of patients with a psychosis Employment How do we measure outcomes and quality? BRAINSTORM Stepped care, equitable services and rationing Self management and using technology Therapeutic relationships and ‘effective interventions’: industrialised health care Treatment and care: the difference
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Passionate about our services Developing world Why do patients with psychosis do better? Urbanisation
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