JARGON BUSTER.... "What are they talking about ????"
Commonly used abbreviations used in mental health services. If we've missed one please let us know by e-mail
| AA | Attendance Allowance |
| Advocate | Representative |
| ADD | Attention Deficit Disorder |
| AMH | Adult Mental Health |
| AOT | Assertive Outreach Team |
| ASW | Approved Social Worker |
| Appropriate Adult | A person who supports people ( alleged offenders, victims and witnesses ) in their dealings with the police. |
| BACP | British Association for Counselling and psychotherapy |
| Befriender | A person from the Portsmouth Mind's Community Links Befriending service who provides support to people who are socially isolated due to severe and enduring mental health problems. |
| BME | Black Minority Ethnic |
| CAB | Citizens Advice Bureau |
| CALL | Carers Active Listening Line |
| CAMHS | Child And Adolescent Mental Health Service |
| Carer | Carers look after family, partners or friends in need of help because they are ill, frail or have a disability. The care they provide is unpaid. ( Carers UK Portsmouth and South East Hants Branch ) |
| CBT | Cognitive Behavioural Therapy |
| CC | Care Co-ordinator |
| CDW | Community Development Worker |
| CMHT | Community Mental Health Team |
| Compass | Local support group for carers of the mentally ill |
| CPA | Care Programme Approach ( Standard or Enhanced ) |
| CPN | Community Psychiatric Nurse |
| CRB Check | Criminal Records Bureau check |
| CSCI | Commission Social Care Inspection |
| CSIP | Care Services Improvement Partnership |
| CSW | Community Support Worker |
| Day/Drop in Centre | Place offering social/leisure and other support |
| Depot | Medication administered through injection |
| Detained/Detainment | When a person is admitted to hospital under the Mental Health legislation. |
| DH/DoH | Department of Health |
| DLA | Disability Living Allowance |
| ECG | Electrocardiograph |
| ECRB Check | Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check |
| ECT | Electro Convulsive Therapy |
| EIP | Early Intervention In Psychosis |
| EIT | Early Intervention Team |
| EMH | Elderly Mental Health |
| EMI | Elderly Mental Illness / Elderly Mentally Ill. |
| EPA | Enduring Power of Attorney |
| EPP | Expert Patient Programme |
| Fellowship | Local group for mental health service users and/or their carers |
| HC | Healthcare Commission |
| HCSW | Health Care Support Worker |
| HIDS | Health Improvement and Development Service |
| Involvepompey@googlemail.com | Portsmouth Service User Involvement E-mail contact. |
| IMCA | Independent Mental Capacity Advocate |
| LA | Local Authority |
| LD | Learning Disabilities |
| LDP | Local Delivery Plan |
| LGBT | Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender |
| LIT | Local Implementation Team |
| LMR | Local Modernisation Review |
| LPA | Lasting Power of Attorney |
| MARAC | Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference - domestic violence |
| MAT | Multi-agency Team |
| MCA | Mental Capacity Act |
| MHA | Mental Health Act 1983 |
| MHF | Men's Health Forum |
| NCSC | National Care Standards Commission |
| NICE | National Institute For Clinical Excellence |
| NIMHE | National Institute For Mental Health In England |
| NN | Named Nurse |
| NSF | National Service Framework |
| OCD | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
| OPG | Office of the Public Guardian |
| OPMHS | Older Persons Mental Health Services |
| OT | Occupational Therapist |
| PACE | Police And Criminal Evidence Act |
| PALS | Patient Advice and Liaison Service |
| PCC | Portsmouth City Council |
| PCCS | Portsmouth Council Of Community Service |
| PCG | Primary Care Group |
| PCPCT | Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust |
| PCS | Portsmouth Counselling Service |
| PCT | Primary Care Trust |
| PCTPCT | Portsmouth City Teaching Primary Care Trust |
| PORT | Portsmouth Outreach Team |
| Port of Call | Internet Café run by CIC for service users and carers |
| Portsmouth Mind | A local, independent charity who work for a better life for people with experience of mental distress |
| PRENO | Portsmouth Race Equality Network Organistion |
| QAH | Queen Alexandra Hospital ( Portsmouth ) |
| QSW | Qualified Social Worker |
| RA | Risk Assessment |
| Recovery | Mental Health recovery is a journey of healing and transformation for a person with a mental health disability to be able to live a meaningful life in the communities of his or her choice while striving to achieve a full human potential or personalhood. (Laurie Curtis 1998) |
| Referral | Request or application for a service |
| RETHINK | National mental health organisation |
| SA | Statutory Agency. An organisation required to provide services by law e.g Social Services. |
| SAD | Seasonal Affective Disorder |
| SEAP | South of England Advocacy Projects |
| Section/sectioning/sectioned | Commonly used term for a person detained under Mental Health legislation. |
| SFT | Southern Focus Trust |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SMH | St.Mary's Hospital (Portsmouth) |
| SOBS | Survivors Of Bereavement Of Suicide |
| St. James | Mental health hospital (Portsmouth) |
| STR or STandR | Support, Time and Recovery worker |
| SU | Service User, Polite method of referring to psychiatric patients |
| SUI | Service User Involvement |
| SURF | Service Users Reference Group |
| SW | Social Worker |
| TTO'S | Medication provided to persons in hospital to take out when on leave from the ward. |
| VA | Organisations, such as charities, providing services not covered by statutory agencies |
| WRAP | Wellness Recovery Action Plan |