A Life in the Day: Volume 2 Issue 1
Table of contents
Liberated by Employment?
Ron Coleman, Liz Ellis, Mike SmithThis paper is a discussion of how an organisation providing community support developed its employment strategy to focus on gainful employment, valued employment roles…
Positively Transitional: A Response to the Recent Article by R. G. Hill and G. Shepherd on the Status of work within Clubhouses in the UK
Colin MacLeanIn the last issue, Rob Hill and Geoff Shepherd gave a critical account of the Transitional Employment part of the Clubhouse programme. This has produced strong reactions, and here…
An Act to Follow?
Rachel PerkinsIn relation to employment, mental health difficulties are almost invariably seen as ‘problems’ to be overcome, but this is not always the case. Within services for people with…
The Therapeutic Earnings Concession today
Elizabeth Bray, Judy ScottElizabeth Bray has prepared a radical proposal to change the benefit system based on the brilliant idea produced by Alastair and David for the last issue of Life in the…
‘There may be trouble ahead’
Peter BatesIt was John Perske who wrote about the ‘dignity of risk’ and reminded us that a good quality of life includes the right to try things out, to experiment, to fail. If every toddler…
A Day in the Life of a Service User
Gábor GombosGábor Gombos had had a life with psychiatry in focus when in 1993 survived his most painful emotional crisis remaining outside from the psychiatric system, with intensive support…