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Communities of recovery
- Authors:
- BRADSTREET Simon, Connor Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2005, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Explores how communities might promote recovery to people with long-term mental health problems. Asks what a genuine recovery-friendly community might look like. The article is based on a discussion paper published by the Scottish Recovery Network (SRN).
Life peers
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2008, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Scotland is to employ peer support workers in its mainstream mental health services. This article looks at the development of the scheme.
A world to belong to
- Author:
- BERZINS Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2007, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This research looks at one aspect of social inclusion - interaction with other people, including daily social contact with friends, family and staff from mental health services - and examines how this is being experienced by people using mental health services. The research was conducted jointly by SAMH (the Scottish Association for Mental Health), the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (Scotland), and the Public Health & Health Policy Section of the University of Glasgow, and funded by the Big Lottery. Interviews were conducted with three different groups: 200 people who were regular users of mental health services, 1000 members of the general population, and 20 mental health service professionals. The results found significant differences between the social contacts of those who used mental health services and the general population sample. Although it was felt that mental health services played an important part in the lives of those who use them, less than half those surveyed felt that services encouraged them to use other community services.
A world to belong to: social networks of people with mental health problems
- Author:
- BERZINS Kathryn
- Publisher:
- Scottish Association for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This report summarises the findings of a research project exploring the social networks of people who use mental health services. The research involved interviewing 200 people who use mental health services, 1000 people from the general population and 20 mental health professionals. The findings show that people who use mental health services are at a disadvantage in forming and maintaining relationships with other people. The recommendations in this report focus on the work that service providers can do to combat this widespread exclusion. The report also shows the effect that being, or having been, in employment has on the social contacts a person experiences.
How do we treat unhappiness
- Authors:
- MAXWELL Margaret, McCOLLAM Allyson, HALLIDAY Emma
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, March 2005, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Reports findings of a study that explored how people experiencing common mental health problems understand self-help and use it as a coping strategy. The study focused on capacity for the development of self-help within primary care to address mental health needs. The 18-month qualitative study was undertaken in two local health co-operatives (LHCCs) within one primary care trust in Scotland. Individual interviews and multi-disciplinary discussions were conducted with staff, and 34 service users were also recruited for in-depth interviews to explore their views, needs, and how these needs were being met. Findings suggest that improving primary care responses for people with common mental health problems should increase the availability of social support, particularly for those people who are isolated.
Social relationships and health: the meaning of social 'connectedness' and how it relates to health concerns for rural Scottish adolescents
- Authors:
- HENDRY Leo B., REID Marylou
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 23(6), December 2000, pp.705-719.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
Adolescence has been posited as an important period for the onset of mental health problems and for the need to adapt successfully too many psychosocial changes. The assumption has been made that social belongings is both a health-related goal and an antidote for other sorts of emotional crises. This qualitative study examines how social connectedness represents both a content and process variable in northern Scottish young people's discussion of their health concerns, that is, it was both a source of distress and implicated as a helpful or harmful factor in relation to other health concerns. Suggestions are given for building new approaches for conceptualising rural young people's health problems and helping them cope with the social contexts involved within and around them.