Mental Health and Social Inclusion: Volume 18 Issue 4

The challenges of research on new ways to support recovery

Sue Holttum

The randomised controlled trial, though highly valued, has been criticised as not helping to understand how results occur: Real-life complexity is not captured, i.e. what actually…

A day in the life of a peer support worker: Melinda

Emma Watson

– The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into a day in the life of a peer support worker.

Remarkable lives: Caitlin Jenkins in conversation with Jerome Carson

Caitlin Jenkins, Jerome Carson

– The purpose of this paper is to offer a profile of Caitlin Jenkins.

Recovery is for staff not just for people using services

Liz Walker

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate, from the lived experience of the author, that recovery does not only apply to people who use services, it is just as relevant to the…

Prosper: a social movement approach to mental health

Daniel Barrett, Janette Benson, Rhiannon Foster, Alan Leader

The purpose of this paper is to describe the conceptual basis and development of Prosper: an emerging and evolving self-directed network and movement for people with lived…

Journeys to work: the perspective of client and employment specialist of “Individual Placement and Support” in action

Lynne Miller, Suzanne Clinton-Davis, Tina Meegan

The purpose of this paper is to provide the personal accounts of the journey back to work from the perspective of both the person entering employment and the Employment Specialist…

The development of recovery based nursing in a high-security hospital: nurturance and safe spaces in a dangerous world?

Mark Chandley, Maxine Cromar-Hayes, Dave Mercer, Bridget Clancy, Iain Wilkie, Gary Thorpe

The purpose of this paper is to derive from an on-going, innovative, project to explore the concept, and application, of “recovery” in the care and clinical management of patients…

Severe mental illness & employment: cost-benefit analysis and dynamics of decision making

David Booth, Simon Francis, Neil Mcivor, Patrick Hinson, Benjamin Barton

The purpose of this paper is to explore the economic benefits of Individual Placement with Support programmes commissioned by NHS North in the North West and Yorkshire and Humber…

The elephant on the table

Julie Repper, Rachel Perkins