A Life in the Day: Volume 13 Issue 4

Editorial

Adam Pozner

There needs to be change

Brian Joof

Brian Joof, a young man of West African origin who has experienced and overcome long‐term mental health problems, describes his recovery process, during the course of which he has…

The challenge and the choice ‐ providing evidence‐based employment support within mental health services

Terence Riley

Commissioners of adult health and social care services in the London Borough of Camden are keen to see the spread of evidence‐based practices in mental health and employment…

Using images to capture and share service users' spirituality

Hazel Bryce, Lorraine

This article explores some of the images and words that service users choose to capture and represent their unique spirituality. It was written using material that service users…

Recovery heroes ‐ a profile of Gordon McManus

Gordon McManus, Sarah Morgan, Jane Fradgley, Jerome Carson

The influential Sainsbury Centre report, Making Recovery a Reality (Shepherd et al, 2008), talks about clinical and social aspects of recovery. The issue of psychological recovery…

Open Arts: promoting well‐being and social inclusion through art

Jenny Secker, Kirsten Heydinrych

In this article we describe Open Arts' achievements during the project's first year of operation and present the first results from an ongoing evaluation being carried out by…

Changes 12 Steps to Mental Health

Barbara Wain

I am proud to be known as an expert by experience in recovery from mental distress, but I am also a co‐founder and director of a multi‐award winning, peer‐led charity called…

Reluctant conscripts? Service users' experiences of vocational service modernisation

Helen Bird, Ursula Huxley, Chris Ring

Helen Bird and colleagues report on a small‐scale research project completed in west Yorkshire that examined the effects of the closure of a traditional sheltered workshop on…

Communities of Influence ‐ mobilising NHS foundation trust governors and members to promote social inclusion through community engagement

Fabian Davis, Naomi Hankinson, Stafford Scott, Rosemary Wilson, David Morris

This article describes the National Social Inclusion Programme's Communities of Influence workstream, the premises on which it was founded, the innovative social inclusion…