Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 20(1), 2016, pp.29-35.
Publisher:
Emerald
Purpose: The potential transformative role of recovery colleges is well-documented in community mental health settings. The purpose of this paper is to reproduce the principles of the recovery college approach in a forensic setting in Devon.
Design/methodology/approach: This paper describes the inaugural two-year development process, from ideas to a functioning service, accessible to patients in both medium secure, low and open settings on the Langdon hospital site, drawing on qualitative accounts from staff and service users involved.
Findings: Creating and maintaining an educational space within the forensic environment where people have real choices to learn and work on their recovery is possible and valued by service users and clinicians alike.
Originality/value: Langdon was one of the first forensic hospitals in the UK to introduce a recovery college, and the report of the positive impact and challenges involved may be useful to others setting out on this journey.
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Purpose: The potential transformative role of recovery colleges is well-documented in community mental health settings. The purpose of this paper is to reproduce the principles of the recovery college approach in a forensic setting in Devon.
Design/methodology/approach: This paper describes the inaugural two-year development process, from ideas to a functioning service, accessible to patients in both medium secure, low and open settings on the Langdon hospital site, drawing on qualitative accounts from staff and service users involved.
Findings: Creating and maintaining an educational space within the forensic environment where people have real choices to learn and work on their recovery is possible and valued by service users and clinicians alike.
Originality/value: Langdon was one of the first forensic hospitals in the UK to introduce a recovery college, and the report of the positive impact and challenges involved may be useful to others setting out on this journey.
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Subject terms:
recovery, community mental health services, secure hospitals, forensic psychiatry;
Supported housing combined with personalised support service can play a vital role in helping people with mental illness in their recovery. This article looks at examples of supported housing provided by Sanctuary Supported Living and how providing personalised support geared to the individual provides clients with a step-down approach to help them move towards independent living.
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Supported housing combined with personalised support service can play a vital role in helping people with mental illness in their recovery. This article looks at examples of supported housing provided by Sanctuary Supported Living and how providing personalised support geared to the individual provides clients with a step-down approach to help them move towards independent living.
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Subject terms:
mental health problems, supported living, recovery, supported housing;
The Better Health Bakery provides people overcoming mental health issues with an opportunity to do work in a thriving business, gaining new skills and move closer to employment. It was created by the social enterprise arm of the charity Centre for Better Health based in the London Borough of Hackney. This article reports on how the bakery manages the trainee baker' 12 week placements, the role of volunteers within the bakery, and how they help their trainee bakers when the placement ends.
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The Better Health Bakery provides people overcoming mental health issues with an opportunity to do work in a thriving business, gaining new skills and move closer to employment. It was created by the social enterprise arm of the charity Centre for Better Health based in the London Borough of Hackney. This article reports on how the bakery manages the trainee baker' 12 week placements, the role of volunteers within the bakery, and how they help their trainee bakers when the placement ends.
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Subject terms:
mental health problems, charities, recovery, employment;
Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 21(3), 2017, pp.176-183.
Publisher:
Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a perspective on peer work and insights from Flourish Australia’s journey in growing a thriving peer workforce. Flourish Australia is a large not-for-profit organisation that has been supporting people with their recovery journeys for over 60 years. The organisation provides, predominantly, non-clinical community-based support to enable people who
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a perspective on peer work and insights from Flourish Australia’s journey in growing a thriving peer workforce. Flourish Australia is a large not-for-profit organisation that has been supporting people with their recovery journeys for over 60 years. The organisation provides, predominantly, non-clinical community-based support to enable people who live with a mental health issue and/or psychosocial disabilities to lead contributing lives in their community.
Design/methodology/approach: Flourish Australia developed and implemented a number of strategic directives in order to support the growth of a peer workforce. Central to these directives were policy positions that encouraged a shared understanding of the value and contribution that people with a lived experience of a mental health issue add to an organisation. From this policy foundation, the Why Not a Peer Worker? strategy and Transformation Peer Worker strategy were implemented and embraced by hiring managers across the organisation.
Findings: The “Why Not a Peer Worker?” campaign, coupled with the Transformation Peer Worker strategy, resulted in an increase in Flourish Australia’s peer workforce of almost 600 per cent over an 18-month period to now number 145 positions.
Research limitations/implications: This paper provides organisations who are seeking to develop or grow their peer workforce with practical ideas that have been successfully implemented by Flourish Australia that can be discussed and debated when developing a peer workforce.
Originality/value: This paper provides unique insights into Flourish Australia’s peer workforce journey.
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Subject terms:
peer support, mental health services, communities, employment, recovery;
Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 37(4), 2016, pp.213-226.
Publisher:
Emerald
... against the stigma of mental illness (Barone et al., 2014; Bruschetta et al., 2014). The main therapeutic activities provided in the GA depend on the type of recovery route being supported, on the level of autonomy being developed and on the level of participation in the democratic life of the local community.
Originality/value: GAs appear better, cheaper and a more appropriate treatment for mental problems in the current financial and social climate than larger institutions. Where they have been tried out, they have been found to be effective, by users and by stakeholders. They exemplify the advantages of the DTC for encouraging recovery, but cost less to run. In accordance with DTC principles, the social democratic process is used not only to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of GAs, but also
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a model of democratic therapeutic community (DTC) for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and psychotic disorder, namely the Group-Apartment (GA). The authors will describe it in more detail, discussing the ideas which lie behind it, considering the relative cost of treating people in larger residential DTCs and in GAs, outlining findings from the first data gathered on a GA and looking at the usefulness of this model in post-modern societies, with particular reference to Sicily.
Design/methodology/approach: In brief a GA is a flat, located in an urban apartment building, inhabited by a small group of people. In this paper the authors consider an apartment inhabited by a group of three or four patients with the presence of clinical social workers who work in shifts for several hours a day on all or most days of the week (Barone et al., 2009, 2010). GA is also inspired by the pioneering work of Pullen (1999, 2003), in the UK tradition of the apartment post TC for psychosis.
Findings: GAs in Italy have become one of the main methods of support housing in recovery-oriented treatment, because it allows the empowerment of the users and fights against the stigma of mental illness (Barone et al., 2014; Bruschetta et al., 2014). The main therapeutic activities provided in the GA depend on the type of recovery route being supported, on the level of autonomy being developed and on the level of participation in the democratic life of the local community.
Originality/value: GAs appear better, cheaper and a more appropriate treatment for mental problems in the current financial and social climate than larger institutions. Where they have been tried out, they have been found to be effective, by users and by stakeholders. They exemplify the advantages of the DTC for encouraging recovery, but cost less to run. In accordance with DTC principles, the social democratic process is used not only to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of GAs, but also to build a network to support the development of innovative mental health services and new enabling environments (Haigh et al., 2012).
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Examines how practical and person centred support, focused on social interaction and provided by volunteers, can help people feel better about their discharge from hospital, improving wellbeing and recovery. In particular, the document looks at the Royal Voluntary Service Home from Hospital service, which places a caring volunteer at the centre of an older person’s recovery plan, with the aim to: support and engage with patients on ward during the recovery phase to identify personalised outcomes for discharge; provide practical help and support following a discharge from hospital; help users regain confidence and reduce anxiety; reduce social isolation; promote independent living and choice; help users maintain day to day activities; provide information/signpost to other organisations; and help
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Examines how practical and person centred support, focused on social interaction and provided by volunteers, can help people feel better about their discharge from hospital, improving wellbeing and recovery. In particular, the document looks at the Royal Voluntary Service Home from Hospital service, which places a caring volunteer at the centre of an older person’s recovery plan, with the aim to: support and engage with patients on ward during the recovery phase to identify personalised outcomes for discharge; provide practical help and support following a discharge from hospital; help users regain confidence and reduce anxiety; reduce social isolation; promote independent living and choice; help users maintain day to day activities; provide information/signpost to other organisations; and help prevent readmissions to hospital. The document explains how the service works in hospital, at home and in the community, and the steps to set up a Home from Hospital service. It includes case studies and examples of services.
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Subject terms:
hospital discharge, older people, volunteers, integrated care, person-centred care, recovery;
This report is based on a review of the Making Recovery Real (MRR) initiative in Dundee, which involves a mix of people and organisations with an interest in promoting the best possible mental health for people in Dundee. MRR includes people with lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery and statutory and third sector organisations. The review explores the perspectives of those most closely involved in the initiative, including people with lived experience of recovery and practitioners from a range of organisations. It illustrates how people with lived experience and those with professional skills can learn together to achieve the best possible wellbeing for people. It is helping to put people with lived experience have the right to be at the centre of decision-making, service design and practice development. Activities have included bringing people together to shape local priorities and strategies, and redesign services and the establishment of the Dundee Peer Recovery Network. There are also some general lessons that go beyond the mental health world for those seeking to change ways of working in public services and communities.
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This report is based on a review of the Making Recovery Real (MRR) initiative in Dundee, which involves a mix of people and organisations with an interest in promoting the best possible mental health for people in Dundee. MRR includes people with lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery and statutory and third sector organisations. The review explores the perspectives of those most closely involved in the initiative, including people with lived experience of recovery and practitioners from a range of organisations. It illustrates how people with lived experience and those with professional skills can learn together to achieve the best possible wellbeing for people. It is helping to put people with lived experience have the right to be at the centre of decision-making, service design and practice development. Activities have included bringing people together to shape local priorities and strategies, and redesign services and the establishment of the Dundee Peer Recovery Network. There are also some general lessons that go beyond the mental health world for those seeking to change ways of working in public services and communities.
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Subject terms:
mental health problems, recovery, service users, co-production, peer support, voluntary sector, public sector, service development;
Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 23(2), 2019, pp.76-80.
Publisher:
Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce a programme of workshops facilitated on inpatient wards in NSFT which promote recovery through the discussion of spiritual themes. Design/methodology/approach: An introduction to the design principles of the workshops followed by service user narrative. Findings: The contributions by service users demonstrate how addressing their spirituality promotes recovery. Originality/value: This is the first-time workshops on spirituality have been given a structure in a linked series of topics and then evaluated by service users.
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce a programme of workshops facilitated on inpatient wards in NSFT which promote recovery through the discussion of spiritual themes. Design/methodology/approach: An introduction to the design principles of the workshops followed by service user narrative. Findings: The contributions by service users demonstrate how addressing their spirituality promotes recovery. Originality/value: This is the first-time workshops on spirituality have been given a structure in a linked series of topics and then evaluated by service users.
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Subject terms:
hospitals, NHS trusts, case studies, recovery, recovery approach, groupwork, spirituality, service users, user participation;
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 18(1), 2019, Online only
Publisher:
Department of Social Work. University of Strathclyde.
With growing pressure on child and adolescent mental health teams to meet the needs of young people in care, alongside limited resources, there is an increasing need for care settings to consider their role in providing trauma informed, healing care environments. This article describes the process of developing a therapeutic framework within a small residential care setting in Scotland. The framework encapsulates the importance of attending to the needs of the organisation as a whole in order to provide a safe, attuned and responsive environment, highlighting the fundamental layers of care necessary to provide a foundation upon which the healing journey can begin.
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With growing pressure on child and adolescent mental health teams to meet the needs of young people in care, alongside limited resources, there is an increasing need for care settings to consider their role in providing trauma informed, healing care environments. This article describes the process of developing a therapeutic framework within a small residential care setting in Scotland. The framework encapsulates the importance of attending to the needs of the organisation as a whole in order to provide a safe, attuned and responsive environment, highlighting the fundamental layers of care necessary to provide a foundation upon which the healing journey can begin.
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Subject terms:
case studies, residential care, residential child care, child and adolescent mental health services, needs, looked after children, therapies, recovery, psychology;
HMP Holme House in the North East of England was one of six prisons selected to test new ways of working in 2016. This article provides a case study or description of how the Drug Recovery Prison (DRP) programme was implemented at Holme House to improve ways to tackle drugs in prison. The article covers why things needed to be different and how the programme is innovative. The programme focuses
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HMP Holme House in the North East of England was one of six prisons selected to test new ways of working in 2016. This article provides a case study or description of how the Drug Recovery Prison (DRP) programme was implemented at Holme House to improve ways to tackle drugs in prison. The article covers why things needed to be different and how the programme is innovative. The programme focuses on four key elements: promoting safety and security; enhancing care and wellbeing; strengthening continuity of care provision and prison as a more positive place.
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Subject terms:
drug misuse, prisons, prison service, recovery approach, recovery, case studies, substance misuse, innovation, change management;