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One year on
— reflections on integrating psychological thinking into a physical care home support service | | Author(s) | Carla Runchman |
| Journal title | Psychology of Older People: The FPOP Bulletin, no 133, January 2016 |
| Publisher | British Psychological Society, January 2016 |
| Pages | pp 66-71 |
| Source | http://www.bps.org.uk/newtworks-and-communities/me... |
| Keywords | Health services ; Psychiatric treatment ; Medical workers ; Coordination ; Multi disciplinary ; Dementia ; Behaviour disorders ; Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Clinical psychologists ; Oxfordshire. |
| Annotation | The Oxfordshire Integrated Care Home Support Service (CHSS; see Candy Stone et al's article in this issue) has integrated specialist mental health staff into its physical health service, to provide psychosocial interventions for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), using a stepped care approach. The team includes mental health nurses, occupational therapists, a clinical psychologist and a consultant psychiatrist, and the interventions for challenging behaviour are supervised by the psychologist. The author reflects on being that psychologist, and on leading introduction of psychological formulation and ideas for non-pharmacological interventions in a well-established physical health service. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160127208 A |
| Classmark | L: LP: QT: QAJ: 3DM: EA: EP: KX: KW: QT9A: 8O |
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