Managing transitions

young people leaving care need particular support
1. care setting to independent living
study of 57 young people found that 42%
1. relocated in poor quality accommodation
2. rported feeling depressed, stressed, scared and unable to sleep
difficult to make new realtionships
Cathy
1. Phychiatric unit
  1. impersonal
  2. inhuman/clinical
  3. unwelcoming environemnt workhouse ethos
  4. Depressing and un cared-for place
Good patient experience
1. Clean, comfortable friendly place to be
2. safe, high quality co-oridnated care
mental health act commssion (2005)
1. common in inpatient units
  1. environment shabby and ill kept
  2. little person space
  3. little piece and quiet
  4. Overcrowding
  5. Men and women housed together
  6. drug abuse and illicit drug culture
  7. people confined to the ward
poor quality setting rubs off and everyone
outside the labour market seen as a burden on society
1. at some point end up living in some sort of care setting
appearances matter
provisions 'Sepcial needs'
1. Seperate
2. Jan Thurlow
  1. Claire downs syndrome
3. transistion into a catergory of family ad child
4. special places
Alice
1. sequences of transitions
2. well ordered
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