A Life in the Day: Volume 4 Issue 2

Editorial

Bob Grove

The Aylesbury Story — Development of New Work and Daytime Opportunities For People with Mental Health Problems in Aylesbury Vale

Mike Daley, Jeffrey Orange, Adam Pozner, Helen Phillips, Jane Woodhouse

This is a story of partnership in action — the successful transformation of an outdated industrial therapy unit into a range of services that meet the diverse needs of individuals…

Strategies for Living

Alison Faulkner

On the 13 March 2000 the Mental Health Foundation launched a groundbreaking report based on a three‐year investigation of the ways in which people with mental health problems…

The involved day of a user

Mary Nettle

In this account of a day in her life Rosemary Wilson describes some of the difficulties in bringing the strands of her life together and her own personal ‘strategies for living’…

Facing up to life in Hong Kong

Lindsay Barker, Stephen Cheung, Petrus Ng

The issues discussed in this article will be familiar to everyone struggling to deinstitutionalise sheltered workshops. The solutions being developed — social firms, supported…

Service Development Network for mental health employment services

Adam Pozner, Bob Grove

This issue we are pleased to report that the establishment of a Service Development Network for employment and other work options, mentioned in A life in the day, issue 3.4, is…

Writing therapy to writer…

Peter Bates

Many day centres run creative writing groups as a therapeutic exercise. Sadly, few of the staff involved have thought through how participants could make the transition from…