Charlotte Wunderink

Hanzehogeschool Groningen · Institute of Social Studies

In dit tweede deel over het ggz-programma Woonstart bij Cosis delen de auteurs hun ervaringen met de implementatie. Ze gaan ook in op het kwalitatieve onderzoek dat meeliep met de uitvoering van het programma. Het onderzoek werd uitgevoerd in samenwerking met het lectoraat Maatschappelijke participatie van mensen met psychische beperkingen van de H...

In een tweeluik worden in dit eerste deel de achtergrond van het Woonstartprogramma en het programma zelf beschreven (opzet, inhoud en organisatie), en daarnaast de resultaten van een kwantitatief onderzoek naar de doelgroep. In het tweede deel wordt ingegaan, mede op basis van het kwalitatieve onderzoek dat meeliep met de uitvoering van het progra...

Sociale netwerken en contacten zijn belangrijk voor het herstelproces van mensen met een ernstige psychische aandoening, maar zij krijgen niet altijd de gewenste of benodigde ondersteuning. Tegelijkertijd is als gevolg van de ambulantisering de afgelopen jaren netwerkversterking steeds belangrijker geworden. Hulpverleners geven aan hierbij handvatt...

Emotional and behavioural problems (EBP) have a negative impact on various life domains of adolescents. Receiving care for EBP may improve the functioning of adolescents with EBP, but evidence on long-term outcomes in real-life settings is lacking. We, therefore, investigated self-reported functioning in different life domains of adolescents with v...

Long-term admissions in psychiatric facilities often result in a gradual erosion of the identity of people diagnosed with severe mental illnesses (SMIs) into merely “patient.” Moreover, experiences of loss often reduced people's sense of purpose. Although regaining a multidimensional identity and a sense of purpose are essential for personal recove...

Background Introduction: As a human being we give meaning to our stories, in relation to the social and physical context. For people with severe and complex mental health needs, who have been dependent on (intensive) residential psychiatric support for a long time, it is possible that talents and qualities disappear because this part of their ident...

Background: Care for children and adolescents with psychosocial problems is aimed at reducing problems. There may be a relationship between the intensity and duration of care provision and improvement of these outcomes, but evidence on this issue is lacking. We therefore examined the association between care trajectories based on duration and inte...

In many European countries, deinstitutionalisation has been an ongoing process over the last few decades. Mental health organisations were transformed to provide support in a more integrated and comprehensive manner, preferably in their own homes in the community. Yet, despite the welcome aspiration of community integration for all, people with com...

Mensen met psychische aandoeningen zijn vaak niet alleen patiënt/cliënt, maar ook ouder van kinderen. Het zou voor hulpverleners een tweede natuur moeten zijn om niet alleen naar de psychische klachten te vragen maar ook naar de rol als ouder. Dit kan zowel het welzijn van de kinderen als het herstel van de ouder ten goede komen. Als mensen onderst...

Dutch qualitative study into deinstitutionalisation: experiences of staff and mental health care professionals of three Dutch residential facilities with deinstitutionalisation

Objective: This study examined the extent to which treatment plans of service users of community housing programs measure up to rehabilitation principles according to the Choose-Get-Keep model of psychiatric rehabilitation. The study evaluates whether these plans correspond with service-user and key-worker perspectives on unmet needs for care. Me...

Objective: The authors investigated levels of social inclusion among service users of two types of psychiatric community housing programs in the Netherlands. Methods: A large-scale cross-sectional survey was conducted that included service users of community housing programs (N=255) and their key workers (N=75). Data on social inclusion-particip...

Objective The study aims to determine the extent to which treatment plans of service users of Dutch Regional Institutes for Residential Care (RIRCs), as a proxy of actual treatment, measure up to rehabilitation principles. The study intends to evaluate whether these plans correspond with service user-and key worker-rated unmet needs for care. Metho...

Research into community housing programs for people with severe mental illness is underexposed. The Dutch UTOPIA study describes characteristics of their service users, which may predict their allocation to either supported housing or supported independent living programs. Additionally, a comparison is made with English studies. 119 Care coordinato...

Characteristics of patients living in residential care facilities and the availability of mental hospital- and residential beds in Italy and The Netherlands were compared to assess whether differences in the process of deinstitutionalisation have influenced the composition of their residential patient populations. Data from the Dutch UTOPIA-study (...