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Doing it for themselves
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2007, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Expert Patients Programme has been adapted for mental health services. The course, available nationally, runs over seven weeks and aims to help those with mental health problems self-manage their condition.
Learning together
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, November 2006, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author visits the NIMHE award-winning Garage Project in Mirfield. The project, core-funded by South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust and Kirklees Social Services, uses computers to engage with people with mental health problems and help them towards training or employment.
Critical friends
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 161, January 2010, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The principles of intentional peer support, a formal model of peer support developed in the US, are briefly summarised. The peer support project operated by Sutton Mental Health Foundation is then described. As well as providing training for peer support they provide intentional peer support on acute psychiatric wards for South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
Different options
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2004, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Options, part of the voluntary sector organisation Making Space and winner of the 2004 NIHME positive practice award for social exclusion, has in 4 and a half years helped over 400 people find work or course places and also brighten and widen their lives by accessing sports and leisure facilities. Describes the work of the team and concludes that a national award validates the scheme and may lead to its emulation.
Thorn in a dilemma
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(3), November 1998, pp.86-87.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Launched in 1991, the Thorn nurse training initiative aimed to produce a body of highly skilled, hands-on community mental health nurses to work with people with long-term serious mental illness. Asks whether Thorn nurses are an elite, a luxury, or the vanguard for a still more radical development of mental health education.