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Getting healthier, staying healthier
- Author:
- HENDERSON Gregor
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2008, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Discusses the National Institute for Mental Health in England's (NIMHE's) Wellbeing and Inclusion Programme, and its importance in improving mental heath services.
What does social inclusion mean?
- Author:
- BERTRAM Mark
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 12(2), May 2008, pp.24-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on findings from a survey of over 150 service users, through one-to-one interviews and discussion groups, which asked what the term 'social inclusion' meant to them. It also gathered their thoughts on whether mental health services could help people in the area of social inclusion.
SCOPE for social inclusion?
- Authors:
- HUXLEY Peter, et al
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 12(3), August 2008, pp.33-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article sets out to look at social inclusion among users within services, asking the questions is there a general measure of agreement about what social inclusion means to people, and is there an accepted way of measuring these views? This article reports on an initiative funded by the NIHR Research Methods programme, now part of the Health Technology Assessment group at Southampton. Nine focus groups explored about what people understand by 'social inclusion' and concept mapping was used to try and define the term. The research methods are reported here, along with plans for the future.
Community reintegration for people with psychiatric disabilities: challenging systemic barriers to service provision and public policy through participatory action research
- Authors:
- MIRZA Mansha, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 23(4), June 2008, pp.323-336.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
People with psychiatric disabilities represent a growing group within the population of nursing home residents in the USA. Despite a preference for living in community-based settings, the availability of supportive services for community living is hindered by barriers at both the service provision and public policy levels. Therefore, understanding and responding to the community living and participation needs of people with psychiatric disabilities is a highly relevant area for action research. This paper discusses a participatory action research endeavour carried out in collaboration with key personnel at Centers for Independent Living who work to provide community reintegration services for individuals with psychiatric disabilities. The events of this 15 month partnership are extensively described, analysed and discussed. Findings reflect the critical need for communication, dialogue and action to support people with psychiatric disabilities in the community.
Thinking big: mental health at the heart of the equalities agenda
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 12(1), February 2008, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author argues that mental health should not only be at the heart of the social inclusion agenda, but with the establishment of the Disability Rights Commission it should also be at the centre of the equalities, human rights and disabilities agenda.
Co-production, time banks and mental health
- Authors:
- REED Zoe K., HARRIES Bee
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 12(1), February 2008, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the role and potential of time banks to contribute to social inclusion and people's recovery from mental illness. The article draws on the personal experience of one of the authors, and the role time banks played in her recovery.
Supporting strengths: the work of Julian Housing
- Authors:
- McCRUDDEN Anne, WILSON Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 11(3), November 2008, pp.25-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Julian Housing Trust is a mental health charity that provides a wide range of housing support services across Norwich and Norfolk. This article looks at their services which have blended recovery principles with a strengths model. They offer mainly floating support to people in their own homes - accommodation the charity has helped them find or sustain. Their success demonstrates the close relationship between person-centred principles of the Supporting People programme and contemporary thinking about social inclusion in community mental health practice. The article includes short case studies. This article was originally published as Wilson T and McCrudden A (2008) Supporting strengths: the work of Julian Housing. A Life in the Day 12(1), 24-8.
Conceptualising recovery in mental health rehabilitation
- Authors:
- LLOYD Chris, WAGHORN Geoff, WILLIAMS Philip Lee
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 71(8), August 2008, pp.321-328.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Recovery as a concept has gained increased attention in the field of mental health. There is an expectation that service providers use a recovery framework in their work. This raises the question of what recovery means, and how it is conceptualised and operationalised. It is proposed that service providers approach the application of recovery principles by considering systematically individual recovery goals in multiple domains, encompassing clinical recovery, personal recovery, social recovery and functional recovery. This approach enables practitioners to focus on service users' personal recovery goals while considering parallel goals in the clinical, social, and role-functioning domains. Practitioners can reconceptualise recovery as involving more than symptom remission, and interventions can be tailored to aspects of recovery of importance to service users. In order to accomplish this shift, practitioners will require effective assessments, access to optimal treatment and care, and the capacity to conduct recovery planning in collaboration with service users and their families and carers. Mental health managers can help by fostering an organisational culture of service provision that supports a broader focus than that on clinical recovery alone, extending to client-centred recovery planning in multiple recovery domains.
A new vision for mental health: discussion paper
- Author:
- FUTURE VISION COALITION
- Publisher:
- Future Vision Coalition
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that the underlying aims of future mental health policy must be to: overcome persistent barriers to social inclusion that continue to affect those with experience of mental health problems; improve the whole-life outcomes of those with experience of mental health problems improve whole-population mental health. This will not be easy to achieve, since attitudes have been ingrained over many decades of use, and because medical models of mental health problems have long dominated the debate about the appropriate focus for policy.
Social inclusion: what psychiatrists can do about it
- Authors:
- GLEESON Setfan, KINGDON David
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 12(2), May 2008, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article explores how the social inclusion agenda is changing the way psychiatrists assess and support patients. Practical steps are suggested to enable psychiatrists to promote a socially inclusive and better quality of life for their patients. The article concludes by focusing on employment as an area presenting considerable barriers to reintegration into society.