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Recovering mental health in Scotland: report on narrative investigation of mental health recovery
- Authors:
- BROWN Wendy, KANDIRIKIRIRA Niki
- Publisher:
- Scottish Recovery Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 168p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This report is the result of what the authors describe as an innovative approach to research. By using a narrative method it states that people in recovery from long-term mental health problems are experts by experience and it reminds us that people can and do recover. The purpose of collecting recovery narratives across Scotland was to learn from each individual’s experience and identify common factors, share stories to inspire hope and offer tools and techniques for recovery among service users, carers, friends and families, service providers and the wider community, establish a Scottish evidence base of factors that help or hinder an individual’s recovery from long-term mental health problems, use the evidence to contribute to the development of policy and practice across all sectors, promoting a better understanding of what supports recovery and wellbeing, and guide and inform the work of the Scottish Recovery Network. Across the stories consistent internal and external elements could be found.
Scottish Recovery Network national conference 2007
- Author:
- THE SCOTTISH RECOVERY NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Scottish Recovery Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
A report of the Scottish Recovery Network (SRN) national conference on Friday 16 February 2007 which discussed future action to promote and support recovery in Scotland is presented.
Scotland’s mental health and its context: adults 2009
- Authors:
- TAULBUT M, PARKINSON J, CATTO S, GORDON D
- Publisher:
- NHS Health Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 180p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Improving mental health is a national priority in Scotland. NHS Health Scotland was commissioned by the Scottish Government to establish a core set of sustainable mental health indicators to enable national monitoring. This report provides the first ever systematic assessment of the adult population’s overall mental health. The report has three objectives: to provide a description of the state of mental health and the associated contextual factors that influence it at a single point in time, using the most recent available data, to analyse time trends for each indicator over the last decade, where possible, and to identify differences within the adult population by selected dimensions of equality, where possible.
Scotland’s mental health and its context: adults 2009 - briefing
- Authors:
- TAULBUT Martin, PARKINSON Jane, CATTO Sonnda, GORDON David
- Publisher:
- NHS Health Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Improving mental health is a national priority in Scotland. In December 2007, NHS Health Scotland published a framework of 54 indicators to support and promote consistent and sustainable national monitoring of adult mental health and associated contextual factors in Scotland. The first systematic assessment using these indicators was published in February 2009. This briefing covers its key points.
National programme for improving mental health and well-being small research projects initiative 2006: ... An exploration as to how personal narraitives are used in the promotion of recovery and social inclusion by mental health service users in Scotland
- Authors:
- ALTENBERGER Iris, MACKAY Rob
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Findings are presented from a study that aimed to explore and identify how personal narratives are used in Scotland to promote recovery and social inclusion by mental health service users. This study took the form of semi-structured interviews with 12 individuals in six locations across Scotland. This was followed up with a focus group discussion with four of the same individuals.
National programme for improving mental health and well-being: small research projects initiative 2005-06: plotting the story of recovery in Edinburgh and Scotland
- Authors:
- TILLEY Stephen, ASQUITH Stewart
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Supporting and promoting recovery is one of the four key aims of Scotland’s National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Well-being. The Scottish Recovery Network is funded to work towards this aim. The study on which this discussion paper is based (completed mid-2006) aimed to contribute to development of recovery in Scotland through critical inquiry. Three linked methods were used: review of key local, national and international texts on experience, policy, practice and recovery-focused research, semi-structured, informal interviews with 11 key actors from the four constituencies on their perceptions of the emergence and development of ‘recovery’ and implications for implementation of a recovery agenda, and notes taken at local and national recovery events, meetings or conferences documenting content and use of recovery language in public settings.
Routes to recovery: collected wisdom from the SRN narrative research project
- Author:
- SCOTTISH RECOVERY NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Scottish Recovery Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Routes to Recovery was developed by the Scottish Recovery Network (SRN) based on interviews with people in recovery from long-term mental health problems. The information and ideas described in this booklet came from Scottish Recovery Network’s Narrative Research Project. During this project 67 people around Scotland who described themselves as in recovery, or recovered, from a long-term mental health problem were interviewed. This publication is intended to highlight some of the things that people said that they had been able to do to support their recovery.
Mental health, recovery and employment
- Author:
- COUTTS Pippa
- Publisher:
- Scottish Recovery Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Supporting recovery for people with long-term mental health problems includes providing people with choices and opportunities for social development and self-determination. One such opportunity, which mental health service users have requested, is for improved support to gain and retain work and employment. This paper is not a review of the literature, but aims to encourage discussion and action around supporting people with long-term mental health problems to gain and sustain suitable employment, which in 'the mental health world’ should go hand in hand with the development of recovery orientated services. The paper considers the current situation with regard to employment for people with long-term mental health problems, and why employment opportunities and supports should be given greater priority. It looks at the links between an individual’s recovery process and gaining and retaining employment, and outlines some ideas on what can be done to overcome barriers to employment and to promote the development of mentally healthy workplaces that meet people’s needs.
Well? What do you think? (2004): The second national Scottish survey of public attitudes to mental health, mental well-being and mental health problems
- Author:
- BRAUNHOLTZ Simon; DAVIDSON Sara; KING Susan
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive Social research
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The National Programme for Improving Mental Health is a key part of Scottish Executive’s health improvement and social justice policy development. The first National Scottish Survey of Public Attitudes to Mental Health was commissioned by the Executive in 2002 to help inform the National Programme’s work and to provide relevant baseline data. The second survey was commissioned to track progress towards meeting the aims of the National Programme. The survey was carried out by MORI and conducted among 1,401 adults aged 16+ in Scotland. The sample was designed to be representative of the adult population of Scotland.
Well? What do you think? (2004): The second national Scottish survey of public attitudes to mental health, mental well-being and mental health problems
- Authors:
- BRAUNHOLTZ Simon, DAVIDSON Sara, KING Susan
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive Social research
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 159p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The National Programme for Improving Mental Health is a key part of Scottish Executive’s health improvement and social justice policy development. The first National Scottish Survey of Public Attitudes to Mental Health was commissioned by the Executive in 2002 to help inform the National Programme’s work and to provide relevant baseline data. The second survey was commissioned to track progress towards meeting the aims of the National Programme. The survey was carried out by MORI and conducted among 1,401 adults aged 16+ in Scotland. The sample was designed to be representative of the adult population of Scotland.