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New journeys, new territories
- Author:
- HITCHON Gil
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, December 2007, pp.34-37.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author suggests new ways to map the journey of recovery for people with mental health problems. The approach emphasises life satisfaction and quality of life.
Pathways in health and well-being
- Author:
- WILTSHIRE Kim
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 11(1), February 2007, pp.9-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author describes how Pathways, a Manchester-based three-year arts programme, helped people overcome challenges of living with mental ill health.
The relationship between the level of personal empowerment and quality of life among psychosocial clubhouse members and consumer-operated drop-In center participants
- Authors:
- BOYD Suzanne A., BENTLEY Kia J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 4(2), 2005, pp.67-93.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This cross-sectional, correlational study examined the relationship between personal empowerment and quality of life among 151 mental health consumers (77 psychosocial clubhouse members and 74 consumer-operated drop-in center participants). This study also evaluated the group differences between empowerment and quality of life. Data collected from face-to-face interviews indicate a positive relationship between personal empowerment and quality of life, with drop-in center participants reporting slightly higher levels of personal empowerment than clubhouse members. Mixed results were found between the two groups with respect to subjective and objective quality of life measures. The results of this study suggest an important association between the ability to make life choices and a mental health consumer's quality of life, especially when high levels of social contact are a part of everyday life. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Whose service is it anyway?: users' views on co-ordinating community care
- Editors:
- BEEFORTH M., et al
- Publisher:
- Research and Development for Psychiatry
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 39p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Covers issues concerning services for mentally ill people, such as quality of life, user involvement and empowerment, organisation and management, information provision, education and training of professionals and care staff, and joint planning.
CoolTan Arts: enhancing well-being through the power of creativity
- Author:
- KIRRMANN Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 14(2), May 2010, pp.12-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
CoolTan Arts, is a South London, user-led, charitable, arts and mental health organisation established in 1990, which enhances adult mental health, by using inherent creativity to produce art work, and integrates those with mental health problems with those who work or volunteer at CoolTan Arts, or who come to the art gallery or attend public events such as fashion shows and poetry readings. Daily workshops in visual arts, drawing, batik, fashion, video editing, filming, playwriting, poetry, web design, podcasting, ICT, photography and sculpture, allow patients to start being productive and valued by friends, family and society as artists. Sections entitled ‘promoting recovery’, ‘social inclusion’, ‘challenging stigma’, ‘the Largactyl shuffle’, and ‘new projects and future challenges’, are punctuated with artist’s quotes and illustrations of their work. Empowered to become advocates helping to reduce mental health stigma, participants often go on to teach workshops or gain employment in the community, says the author, CEO of CoolTan Arts, whose own life has been transformed by the organisation. ‘The Largactyl Shuffle’ is a monthly, cultural walk from Maudsley Hospital to Tate Modern, named after the antipsychotic drug, whose side effects can cause a shuffling gait, which purposely draws attention to the link between exercise, environment and good mental health and has a planned role in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
Your flexible friend: finance schemes in mental health
- Author:
- PRITLOVE Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 6(2), May 2002, pp.22-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes four flexible finance schemes in mental health which have been developed in Leeds, and the benefits which they provide for service users and carers. The schemes are: Leeds Flexifund which provides support for individual mental health service users; the Mental Health Drop-in and Outreach Budget Scheme which supports small-scale groups and activities for people with mental health problems in the community; the Time for Carers Scheme which gives grants to carers of people with mental health problems to enable them to have a break from caring; and the Supporting Parents Fund which aids parents with mental health problems to obtain child-care to improve their mental well-being.