Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dsjbd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-22T08:03:48.583Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Further Observations on the Practice of Community Care in Salford

Differences Between Community Psychiatric Nurses and Mental Health Social Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

K. Wooff  and
D. P. Goldberg
K. Wooff*
Affiliation:
Salford Health Authority, formerly Research Fellow, Department of Community Medicine, University of Manchester
D. P. Goldberg
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Withington Hospital, Manchester
*
∗Mental Health Information Unit, Pendleton House, Broughton Road, Salford M6 6LQ
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Differences in the clinical characteristics of clients have not been found to account for the interprofessional differences in community psychiatric nurses' and mental health social workers' practice in Salford. We found the consultant-attached mental health social workers, who worked closely with the specialist psychiatric team and who received supportive supervision from their professional managers, maintained stable case-loads, but the primary-care attached community psychiatric nurses, who were isolated from the specialist psychiatric team, and who received little supportive supervision from their professional managers, carried case-loads of increasing size. Failure to improve the way in which services for the mentally ill in the community are co-ordinated is likely to perpetuate the worst characteristics of life in the old back wards into the era of ‘community care’.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 1 , July 1988 , pp. 30 - 37
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barclay Report (1982) Social Workers: Their Role and Tasks. Report of a Working Party set up in October 1980, at the request of the Secretary of State for Social Services by the National Institute for Social Work. London: National Institute for Social Work.Google Scholar
Bennett, D. (1978) Foreword to Schizophrenia and Community Psychiatric Nursing (ed. Hunter, Peter). Surbiton: National Schizophrenia Fellowship.Google Scholar
Challis, D. & Ferlie, E. (1986) Changing patterns of fleldwork organisation. British Journal of Social Work, 16, 181–202.Google Scholar
Community Psychiatric Nurses' Association (1983) The Clinical Nursing Responsibilities of the Community Psychiatric Nurse. A Discussion Document. Report by the Clinical Practice Group.Google Scholar
Copeland, J. R. M., Kelleher, M. J., Gourlay, A. J. & Smith, A. M. R. (1975) Influence of psychiatric training, medical qualification, and paramedical training on the rating of abnormal behaviour. Psychological Medicine, 5, 89–95.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Cumberlege Report (1986) Neighbourhood Nursing – a Focus for Care. Report of the Community Nursing Review. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Department of Health and Social Security (1975) Better Services for the Mentally Ill. Cmnd 6233. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Department of Health and Social Security (1978) Collaboration in Community Care – a Discussion Document. Personal Social Services Council and Central Health Services Council. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Department of Health and Social Security (1981) Report of a Study on Community Care. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Fisher, M., Newton, C. & Sainsbury, E. (1984) Mental Health Social Work Observed. National Institute of Social Services Library No. 45. London: George Allen & Unwin.Google Scholar
Goldberg, D. & Blackwell, B. (1970) Psychiatric illness in general practice. A detailed study using a new method of case identification. British Medical Journal, ii, 439–443.Google Scholar
Goldberg, D. P. & Huxley, P. (1980) Mental Illness in the Community. The Pathway to Psychiatric Care. London: Tavistock.Google Scholar
Harries, C. J. (1976) Modern developments in psychiatric nursing care. In Comprehensive Psychiatric Care (ed. Baker, A. A.). Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
House of Commons (1985) Community Care with Special Reference to Adult Mentally Ill and Mentally Handicapped People. Second Report from the Social Services Committee, vol 1. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Hunter, P. (1978) Schizophrenia and Community Psychiatric Nursing. Surbiton: National Schizophrenia Fellowship.Google Scholar
Little, J. C. & Burkitt, E. A. (1976) Psychiatry and the Social Worker. Welwyn Garden City: Smith Kline & French.Google Scholar
Marks, I. M., Hallam, R. S., Connolly, J. & Philpott, R. (1983) Nursing in Behavioural Psychotherapy. London: Royal College of Nursing.Google Scholar
National Schizophrenia Fellowship (1974) Schizophrenia, the Family Burden. Surbiton: National Schizophrenia Fellowship.Google Scholar
Neill, J. E., Fruin, D., Goldberg, E. M. & Warburton, R. W. (1973) Reactions to integration. The views and attitudes of social workers in a newly reorganised social services department. Social Work Today, 4, 458–465.Google Scholar
Shepherd, M., Cooper, B., Brown, A. C. & Kalton, G. W. (196) Psychiatric Illness in General Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Skidmore, D. & Friend, W. (1984) Muddling through. Nursing Times Community Outlook, 9 May, 179–180.Google Scholar
Sladden, S. (1979) Psychiatric Nursing in the Community. A Study of a Working Situation. Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone.Google Scholar
Wing, L. (1970) Observations on the psychiatric section of the International Classification of Diseases and the British Glossary of Disorders. Psychological Medicine, 1, 19–85.Google Scholar
Wing, L. (1972) Two studies of hospital and local authority social work. In Evaluating a Community Psychiatric Service (eds Wing, J. K. & Hailey, A. M.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Wing, J. K., Cooper, J. E. & Sartorius, N. (1974) The Measurement and Classification of Psychiatric Symptoms. London: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Wooff, K. (1987) A comparison of the work of community psychiatric nurses and mental health social workers in Salford. PhD. Thesis, University of Manchester.Google Scholar
Wooff, K., Goldberg, D. P. & Fryers, T. (1988) The practice of community psychiatric nursing and mental health social work in Salford: some implications for community care. British Journal of Psychiatry, 000, 000–000.Google Scholar
Wooff, K., Goldberg, D. P. & Fryers, T. (1986) Patients in receipt of community psychiatric nursing care in Salford 1976–1982. Psychological Medicine, 16, 407–414.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.