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A Service Evaluation Exploring Clients' Experiences of Being on a Waiting List for Individual Psychological Therapy with a Community Learning Disability Team
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Laura Hall – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Service user involvement is imperative in the delivery of mental health services. However, a paucity of research has explored how individuals with a learning disability find waiting for therapy. Therefore, this project aimed to explore how service users accessing a community learning disability team experienced waiting for…
Descriptors: Individual Psychology, Therapy, Mental Health Programs, Learning Disabilities
"Everyone Thought I Was a Very Very Bad Person… No One Want to Know You Like the Nurses and Doctors": Using Focus Groups to Elicit the Views of Adults with Learning Disability Who Use Challenging Behaviour Services
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Haydon-Laurelut, Mark; Edmonds, Jane; Daynes, Shona; Clare, Amy; Byles, Rosalind; Barber, Victoria – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Background: Following scandals such as Winterbourne view, Department of Health, (A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital, 2012) seeks changes in challenging behaviour services. A key part of this change is ensuring people with learning disabilities who use challenging behaviour services have more personalised support and their voices are…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Learning Disabilities, Adults, Positive Behavior Supports
Factors Affecting Self-Referral to Counselling Services in the Workplace: A Qualitative Study
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Athanasiades, Chrysostomos; Winthrop, Allan; Gough, Brendan – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2008
The benefits of psychological support in the workplace (also known as workplace counselling) are well documented. Most large organisations in the UK have staff counselling schemes. However, it is unclear what, if any, factors affect employee decisions to use such schemes. This study has used a qualitative methodology to explore the reasons that…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Help Seeking, Mental Health Programs, Foreign Countries
Cognitive Treatments for Eating Disorders.
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Wilson, G. Terence; Fairburn, Christopher G. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1993
Sees cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) as applicable to all eating disorders but most intensively studied in treatment of bulimia nervosa. Briefly reviews most commonly used cognitive treatments for eating disorders, provides critical evaluation of their effectiveness, and speculates about their mechanisms of action. Notes that CBT has not been…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Bulimia, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Cognitive Restructuring
Ethics and Confidentiality in AIDS Counseling: A Professional Dilemma.
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Erickson, Sharon Henderson – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1993
Clarifies issues of professional values, professional ethics, and legal requirements involved in counseling clients who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive. Discusses implications for the practice of mental health counseling with clients infected with HIV. Proposes suggestions for step-by-step measures of action for mental health…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Confidentiality, Counselor Role
Universes of Discourse: Implications for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
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Williams, David I.; Irving, Judi A. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2002
Individuals can be envisaged as living within a number of parallel universes of discourse, where different meanings and values may apply. The inner and outer worlds of the counseling client also constitute different universes. Decisions made with respect to one universe may have different meanings or adverse consequences in another; it beholds the…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Theories, Counselor Client Relationship, Discourse Analysis
Addressing Inequalities in Health: New Directions in Midwifery Education and Practice. Researching Professional Education Research Reports Series.
Hart, Angie; Lockey, Rachael; Henwood, Flis; Pankhurst, Francesca; Hall, Valerie; Sommerville, Fiona – 2001
This report addresses key questions concerning the effectiveness of midwifery education in preparing midwives to meet the needs of women from minority or disadvantaged groups in England. Chapter 1 sets out the methodological context within which the work was undertaken and provides an overview of data sources and sample sizes. Chapters 3 and 4…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Cross Cultural Training, Curriculum Development