Psychiatric Bulletin (2000) 24: 39. doi: 10.1192/pb.24.1.39-a
© 2000 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Psychiatric Bulletin (2000) 24: 39
© 2000 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Advice and support for people with dementia
The Mental Health Foundation has launched the first UK initiative to
provide one-to-one advice and support to people with dementia and their
carers. The pilot sites for the National Dementia Advice and Support Service
will run until December 2002 initially. The service will train and coordinate
volunteers to go into the homes of people with dementia and their carers and
provide them with practical and emotional support. It will focus on maximising
the mental and physical health of both the person with dementia and the
carers. The volunteers will provide information and advice on key issues such
as access to benefits and accessing increased levels of professional help.
They will also aim to equip the carer with the personal coping skills they
will need and support them in difficult times. For further information please
contact Rachel Clinton or Lesley Warner at the Press Office of the Mental
Health Foundation (telephone: 0171 535 7421/7422).
Safe Solutions and Training For Mental Health Part 3 are
new publications from Pavillion Publishing. Safe Solutions is a new
manual which aims to provide practical ‘hands on’ guidance for anyone within a
family mediation service who may find themselves working with people who have
either experienced violence, or who have perpetrated violence in their home.
The materials are designed to help staff deal with domestic violence safely
and fairly by taking them through the various stages of the mediation process.
This resource pack is priced at £25. Training For Mental Health Part
3 is a new module of the existing package which provides training
sessions in specific areas of mental health. This module, priced at £80,
includes the following topics: the service user perspective; coping with a
crisis; self-help and complementary approaches; eating, food and eating
disorders; and mental health issues for older people. For further information
or to order please contact: Pavillion Publishing (Brighton) Ltd, 8 St George's
Place, Brighton BN1 4ZZ (telephone: 01273 623222; fax 01273 625526).
The Mental Health Foundation has produced a new self-help manual for
therapists and health professionals to use with their service users. Titled
Managing Anxiety and Depression, the manual, which uses
cognitive—behavioural strategies, is an easy to use workbook with a
quick reference index of problems and helpful exercises. It explains what
anxious or depressed feelings are like and how to copy with them, suggests
ways of managing panic attacks and explains that medication alone may not be a
cure for anxiety or depression, although it may help reduce symptoms. The
45-page, A5-size manual costs £6.50 and is available from the Mental
Health Foundation (telephone: 0171 5357441).
