Emily: The article, Patterns of referral and waiting times for specialist Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services, is focused on referrals and wait times for young people in Scotland. It was discovered that specific factors such as referral source and reason, and sociodemographic characteristics regarding the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), the main service in the United Kingdom, were not routinely collected (I’m not sure what you mean here). The study involved approximately four hundred referrals. Although the majority of the referrals were accepted, the number of rejections was still a significant issue. Associations were discovered between the source, reason for the referral or rejection, and age. The reason for …show more content…
The Canadian Triage and Acuity system (CTAS) consists of a five-point system to define the time frame the patient should be seen. Specific mental health triage processes in Australia, were favourable to reduce wait times, promote management for patient conditions and the confidence of nurses assessing patients. The motive of the study was to correlate wait times. CTAS uses patient presentation and type of diagnosis while AEMHTS combines patient observed presentation and reported information to assess triage levels. No distinct relationship amongst CTAS and time existed; however, the AEMHTS score shows a significant relationship. AEMHTS categorized fewer patients as urgent; therefore, met the recommended wait time for psychiatric patients. Nonetheless, both systems efficiently triaged all psychiatric patients within the appropriate time frame (Burke, Downey, & Zun, 2015, p. …show more content…
Kenneth and Steinman, examine how long it really takes for an adolescent patient to get a psychiatric appointment. The study was formed by placing calls using scenarios of real patients to gather the length of time for an appointment. While using different offices, regions and insurance plans, studies were completed and showed a widespread wait time in all three categories. Once analyzed, the results were narrowed down and showed insufficient amounts of psychiatric care available for adolescents with prolonged appointment wait times. (Steinman, Shoben, Dembe, & Kelleher,
One of the sociological theories is conflict theory. The conflict theory deals with people's level on wealth, or class. The conflict theory says that social change is beneficial, contrary to focuses on social order. In the story of the woman and her children, the conflict theory plays a big role on the situation. Police of higher class are threatening the homeless woman. The conflict theory is a constant struggle of people of higher class over powering people of lower class, or the weaker. The police are trying to over power the woman by telling her to leave. Even though the woman and her children were doing nothing wrong, the police used their power to tell her to leave. Also the people of the area showed their conflict theory by telling the police officers to come. They must have felt embarrassed to have a woman of such lower class to be around them. They used their power of class to have the woman removed from their community. The woman wants to be there because she has no home and it is a good community to be in, but the people look at it as an embarrassment to them because it makes their area look bad for someone of such lower class to be around them. The conflict theory is unique to all other theories because it separates people into categories determined by their wealth and standards. Their status is the element that categorizes them, weather it is class, race, or gender. The conflict theory do not always use class, race, and gender all at once. In this situation race and gender is not a main issue, although gender could be a reason, but it would fall under the feminist theory. This story is mainly dealing with class. Through all this conflict the woman feels over powered and domina...
Four Frame Organizational Analysis Grid – Care of the Mental Health Patient in the Emergency Department
Ian, D. and Loudon, J (2006) Improving standards in clinical record-keeping: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 12, pp. 280 – 286
Health Care Service Corporation. Serious Vs. Non-Serious Mental Illness. 10 August 2013. blueaccess. Web-site. 9 November 2013. .
This paper will discuss the different effects managed care has on the quality of mental health care for its clients. On the positive, managed care has increased availability to a cliental that would otherwise not be able to afford mental health care. On the negative, there has been a reduction in quality in order for managed care corporations to keep costs low and still make money. Proper implementation of managed mental health care would likely result in high quality, low cost mental health care.
The Crisis Centre that has been observed is run by a Local Council, and is a National Health Service Trust based in a local community. The centre also corresponds with the 1975 White Paper entitled ‘Better Services for Mentally Ill’...
On account of theses limits other tools that are more efficient, objective and accurate are necessary to enhance acute hospital care. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE 2007) have highlighted the importance of a systemic approach and advocated the use of EWS to efficiently identify and response to pa...
Wang, P.S.; lane, M.; Olfson, M.; Pincus, H.A.; Wells, K.B.; Kessler, R.C. (2005). Twelve-Month Use of Mental Health Services in the United States. ARCH GEN Psychiatry, 62,
In today’s society, the stigma around mental health has caused many people to fear seeking medical treatment for problems they are dealing with. With an abundance of hateful outlooks and stereotypical labels such as: crazy, psycho, and dangerous, it is clear that people with a mental illness have a genuine reason to avoid pursuing medical treatments. Along with mental health stigma, psychiatric facilities that patients with a mental health issue attend in order to receive treatment obtain an excessive amount of unfavorable stereotypes.
Walker, S. (2008). Social work and child and adolescent mental health. Dorset: Russell House Publishing Ltd.
Where I got stuck in the topic was when the book switched from Socioeconomic Context to Socioeconomic status, abbreviated to SES. I understood how this concept work from the examples of the U.S families having a baby and the mother having no income and the father having some income would make them fall into the position of their SES being low wage earner. I also understood that income wasn’t the only thing that defined SES but also poverty.
Stroul, B. A., Pires, S. A., Armstrong, M. I., & Meyers, J. C. (1998). The impact of managed care on mental health services for children and their families. Future of Children, 8, 119-133.
Stroul, B. A., Pires, S. A., Armstrong, M. I., & Meyers, J. C. (1998). The impact of managed care on mental health services for children and their families. Future of Children, 8, 119-133.
The film Modern Times directed by Charlie Chaplin is a silent era film filled with sound effects that shows the struggles and challenges of living in a modern industrial society. The Director Charlie Chaplin happens to be the central character referred to as Little Tramp along with his friend Ellen also known as Gamine, an orphan and homeless young lady. The technical code of the film is black and white but very humorous. The film portrays social issues such as slavery, poverty, unemployment, strikes, and economic imbalances just to name a few. These issues occurred during the period of the great depression in America.
When it comes to comprehending or understanding any concept to why individuals may do some of the things they do, there are social theories out there to help better explain those actions. Sociological theories help to focus more on the aspect of social life, as well as explain behaviors that can be driven by passion, tradition, self-interest, religion, and the laws we have set out today in stone. “Unlike scientific theories, social theories tend to be more evaluative and critical than the theories in the natural sciences” (Appelrouth A. S.; Edles D. L 2012) Today, an analytical frame is used to help guide the comparing and contrasting of the several theoretical perspectives and traditions. In simpler terms, this four way frame is basically used to help compare and contrast theorist better. There are four main cells that make up this analytical frame which include, individual-rational, individual-nonrational, collective-rational, and collective-nonrational. Also included into this basic theoretical orientation or framework, are the core classical theorists. Those influential theorists included into the framework are Mead, who falls into the individual-nonrational side, Durkheim whom falls into the collective-nonrational side, Weber whom falls into the collective-rational side, and Marx who is also included into the collective-rational side.