Virtual Ward

Engagement

This section contains engagement practice, treatments, activities and therapeutic observation.

	Title: Star Wards Web page: http://www.starwards.org.uk Summary: Star Wards is working with partner organisations to help animate acute mental health wards, to improve patients' quality of time and treatment outcomes. It has collected a range of practical ideas for substantially improving inpatients' daily experiences. They range from the fun (regular comedy evenings) to the functional - a core programme of activities. Publication: Star Wards Leaflet: Leaflet
	Title: Self Injury Tool Kit Published: January 2008 Summary: SELF-INJURY - A Recovery and Evidence Based Tool Kit. One of the momentums for this tool kit is the 2007 Trust-wide Self-Injury Audit, where 100% of services in the Trust identified the need for a Trust-wide tool kit in the assessment, care and treatment of people who self-injure.
	Title: Therapeutic Activity Review 2007 - 2008 Published: 2008 Summary: Therapeutic Activity Review for Centurion and Meadowfield Mental Health Inpatient Units – 2007 / 2008. This review will comment of key guidance from 2007/08 in particular Trust objectives that we strive to meet. The review and timetables attached will clearly set out key aspects of the work provided by a range of multi disciplinary staff within the two units.
	Title: STEPS DL Published: July 2007 Summary: The STEPS project aimed to use the experience of multi-professional teams working in well functioning wards to identify the essential elements of successful therapeutic engagement with patients. STEPS provides a set of realistic ideas for frontline staff and managers on Successful Team Engagement in Inpatient Psychiatric Services (STEPS).
	Title: STEPS handbook Published: July 2007 Summary: This document has captured positive practice in action from inpatient psychiatric units and helpfully sets out ideas to improve the quality of services. Readers will benefit from the identified good practice which is a blueprint for ensuring safety is maintained whilst enabling sensitive care, personal responsibility, better staff and service user rapport and increased job satisfaction.
	Title: STEPS Research Report Published: July 2007 Summary: Report on the STEPS project including the following themes: Respecting patients, Empowering patients, Staff being ‘available’, Engagement-focused observation, Homely environment, Good team dynamics and multidisciplinary team working, Nurses and nursing assistants feeling empowered, Support and information available from outside sources, Therapeutic work, Good interface between services, Embracing change.
	Title: Triangle intro frame Published: February 2006 Summary: Strategies for improving engagement with informal carers in in-patient settings. This document reviews the challenge of developing a better partnership between services and carers.
	Title: Keys to engagement Published: July 1998, reprinted June 2002 Summary: Review of care for people with severe mental illness who are hard to engage with services. The Review focused on the needs and aspirations of people who are not engaging with services and has examined how services can best address those needs.
	Title: Blank CMHT family benchmark Summary: Document on family engagement benchmark in association with CMHT services.
	Title: Engagement with young people and their carers Summary: Presentation on engaging young people or any person with psychosis with an emphasis on collaboration with client. Also tips on communication and relationship skill. Very useful teaching tool for ward/community staff, newly qualified or students of health care assistants.

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