Mental Health and Social Inclusion: Volume 15 Issue 1

Editorial

Adam Pozner

Policy watch

Simon Lawton‐Smith

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

Research watch

Sue Holttum

A quarterly reflection on recent research into mental health and social inclusion issues.

Get Into Reading with Mersey Care NHS Trust

Mary Weston, Eleanor McCann

This article describes the Mersey Care Reads, a collaborative project between The Reader Organisation and Mersey Care NHS Trust. Service users and staff read literature together…

Social psychiatry and social policy for the 21st century: new concepts for new needs ‐ the ‘Enabling Environments’ initiative

Robin Johnson, Rex Haigh

A ‘psychologically informed environment’, or PIE, is the first of many new concepts that have spun off from the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Enabling Environments (EE…

Historical recovery heroes ‐ Florence Nightingale

Elizabeth Wakely, Jerome Carson

Florence Nightingale was one of the most influential women of the 19th century. She is most closely associated with the Crimean War and the subsequent development of the nursing…

The Arts and Social Network ‐ attachment through art

Andy Brooker

This article describes the development of the Arts and Social Network, a unique resource developed specifically to provide social opportunities for people who experience social…

ResearchNet: research as recovery

Neil Springham, Stuart Wraight, Carol Prendergast, Japleen Kaur, Frankie Hughes

This article describes ResearchNet, a project based within the Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust that involves service users and carers in research as a means of supporting recovery. A…