This article profiles VOX Scotland, the new national representative body for all Scotland's users of mental health service users and people with experience of mental health problems.
This article profiles VOX Scotland, the new national representative body for all Scotland's users of mental health service users and people with experience of mental health problems.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, organisations, service users, user views;
Littlewing is a Dundee-based, user-run mental health information and communications project. The article highlights the different ways Littlewing is spreading the word about mental health: through a fortnightly magazine, a music group, website and a newly launched CD-ROM designed specifically for GP surgeries to improve information available on sources of help in the city.
Littlewing is a Dundee-based, user-run mental health information and communications project. The article highlights the different ways Littlewing is spreading the word about mental health: through a fortnightly magazine, a music group, website and a newly launched CD-ROM designed specifically for GP surgeries to improve information available on sources of help in the city.
Subject terms:
mental health, mental health problems, service users, user views, access to information, charities;
The author looks at the potential of peer support for promoting social inclusion of people with long-term mental health problems. The article includes discussion of a model used by META Services, who are based in Phoenix, Arizona, which brings together peer support, education, training and employment.
The author looks at the potential of peer support for promoting social inclusion of people with long-term mental health problems. The article includes discussion of a model used by META Services, who are based in Phoenix, Arizona, which brings together peer support, education, training and employment.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, peer groups, service users, social inclusion, befriending schemes, education, employment, peer support;