Mental Health and Social Inclusion: Volume 15 Issue 4

Policy watch

Simon Lawton‐Smith

This paper aims to review recent and forthcoming developments in mental health policy across the UK.

Hearing voices and befriending schemes

Sue Holttum

This Research Watch seeks to summarise two recent research papers. The first examines the case for understanding hearing voices as part of normal experience, while the second…

Measuring the costs and benefits of promoting social inclusion

Geoff Shepherd, Michael Parsonage

The purpose of this paper is to review representative literature on social inclusion and evaluate the usefulness of the concept in current mental health policy.

More than words – intergenerational participation and mental health

Amy Ball, Rivkah Cummerson

The paper aims to describe intergenerational participation work undertaken at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust with young and older people using mental health services…

Homelessness is more than houselessness: a psychologically‐minded approach to inclusion and rough sleeping

Martin Seager

This paper seeks to identify and remedy a fundamental absence of psychological thinking in the current conceptual framework underpinning services for homeless people.

Now I have a voice: service user and carer involvement in clinical psychology training

Sue Holttum, Laura Lea, Di Morris, Linda Riley, Diana Byrne

This paper aims to describe the challenges and rewards of service user and carer involvement in clinical psychology training as experienced in one training centre.

The creative cycle: receiving and giving help in a black and minority ethnic counselling service

Beverley Costa

This paper seeks to provide an overview of Mothertongue, a multi‐ethnic counselling service which offers volunteering opportunities for people from a range of black and minority…

Editorial

Adam Pozner