Mental Health and Social Inclusion: Volume 14 Issue 4

Editorial

Adam Pozner

Policy watch

Simon Lawton‐Smith

A quarterly review of recent and forthcoming developments within mental health policy.

CornerHouse ‐ a mental health community development hub

Paul Field

This article profiles CornerHouse, an organisation that has played a key role in facilitating the emergence and development of a large number of mental health services and…

Using Appreciative Inquiry to promote choice for older people and their carers

Patience Seebohm, Julie Barnes, Salma Yasmeen, Margaret Langridge, Celia Moreton‐Prichard

This article describes how an ‘Appreciative Inquiry’ approach was used in south London to enhance the levels of choice that older adults with dementia or mental health problems…

From singing to soap making: North Devon's Adult Learning Forum Pilot Project

Ann Ley, Jane Coleman, Julian Vayne

This article is about North Devon's Adult Learning Forum Pilot Project, which offered a range of interesting and unusual cultural activities to people recovering from mental…

Social psychiatry and social policy for the 21st century ‐ new concepts for new needs: the ‘psychologically‐informed environment’

Robin Johnson, Rex Haigh

Although the idea of a therapeutic community (TC) has lost none of its dynamism, there are many modern‐day environments in which the original TC model has been unable to make…

Historical recovery heroes ‐ Winston Churchill

Elizabeth Wakely, Jerome Carson

This article provides a cameo of Winston Churchill, said by many to have been the greatest Englishman who ever lived, largely due to his leadership during the Second World War…

How day services can meet government targets of social inclusion and recovery while retaining buildings‐based services

Katie Wilkinson, Alun Walters, Anne Crawford‐Docherty

This article describes the approach to modernisation of adult mental health day services taken in Sandwell, which retains a building‐based element to provide for attachment and…