Mental Health and Social Inclusion: Volume 17 Issue 3

Improving social inclusion for young people diagnosed with “first episode psychosis”: employment, education and online support

Sue Holttum

This article aims to summarise two papers from Australia on supporting young people in early intervention for psychosis. Both have implications for young people's social inclusion…

Policy watch: accessing a reformed care and support system

Sophie Corlett

The Policy Watch series reflects on recent and forthcoming developments in mental health policy across the UK. This paper aims to review the potential impact of forthcoming…

Remarkable lives: Stuart Baker‐Brown in conversation with Jerome Carson

Stuart Baker‐Brown, Jerome Carson

This paper aims to offer a profile of Stuart Baker‐Brown.

Do “complex needs” need “complex needs services”? – part one

Robin Johnson

This paper – the first of two – aims to trace the origins of, and suggest the underlying intentions behind, the recent appearance of the new term “complex needs”, amongst…

Personal consequences of the diagnosis of schizophrenia: a preliminary report from the inquiry into the schizophrenia label

Philip Thomas, Patience Seebohm, Jan Wallcraft, Jayasree Kalathil, Suman Fernando

The purpose of this survey was to describe the impact of the diagnosis of schizophrenia on the lives of people who receive the diagnosis.

Art in recovery: from participation to independence

Tracy Aston

This paper aims to describe a partnership visual arts project between Richmond Fellowship (a national mental health charity) and the Bluecoat arts centre in Liverpool involving…

Social inclusion and personality disorder

Heather Castillo

This study aims to investigate the process of recovery for people diagnosed with personality disorder. This is related to the application of the new meaning of recovery from…

Community participation and social inclusion in Bristol

Jon Fieldhouse, Anne‐Laure Donskoy

This paper reports on action research which explored assertive outreach service users’ experiences of community participation and then fed this learning into a multi‐agency forum…

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