Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

The Diabetes Educator

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Child Health Care
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Taylor, H. C.
Right arrow Articles by Vostanis, P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Taylor, H. C.
Right arrow Articles by Vostanis, P.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Listening to service users: young homeless people's experiences of a new mental health service

Helen C. Taylor, BSc(Hons),MSc

Greenwood Institute of Child Health, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Maria C. Stuttaford, BSocSc(Hons),MSocSc, PhD

Human Geography, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK

Bob Broad, PhD

National Children's Bureau (NCB), London, UK

Panos Vostanis, MB,MD,MRCPsych

Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, pv11{at}le.ac.uk

The aim of this study was to investigate young homeless people's experiences of `Strong Minded', a new mental health service set up within selected homeless shelters and run by a voluntary sector organization. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 residents from five homeless shelters across the UK. All of the young people who had accessed Strong Minded had benefited from their engagement. The young people also identified several key inherent and important aspects of Strong Minded relating to both the practical, supportive therapeutic approach and the flexibility of the interventions offered, which contributed to the service's success. This service model of engaging vulnerable young people in transition could have useful implications for the future interface between voluntary and statutory mental health services.

Key Words: evaluation • homeless • mental health • service users • young people

Journal of Child Health Care, Vol. 11, No. 3, 221-230 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1367493507079568
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?