Mental Health and Social Inclusion: Volume 20 Issue 4

Editorial

Rachel Perkins, Julie Repper

Dyslexia: is it genetic and what does this mean for social inclusion?

Sue Holttum

This paper starts by considering what it means if dyslexia has genetic or environmental causes. The author also explains phrases used by genetic researchers and the kind of things…

Kayleigh Beard-Blackband in conversation with Jerome Carson

Kayleigh Beard-Blackband, Jerome Carson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a profile of Kayleigh Beard-Blackband.

Mistakes I have made: and things they taught me while working as a peer

Tessa Rodgers

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and progression of offering peer support using personal reflections on mistakes. The paper draws on the core principles of…

Discovering myself, a journey of rediscovery

Waldo Roeg

The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences of one person’s journey of recovery and use these as the basis for reflection on things that assist people in this journey.

PIEs five years on

Peter Cockersell

The purpose of this paper is to consider evidence for the effectiveness of the psychologically informed environments (PIEs) approach to working with homeless people in the five…

Reflections on the social model of distress or madness: how to make the social model of disability accessible to people with mental health challenges

Angela Kinn

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between recovery approaches and the social model of disability developed within the broader disability movement.

Barriers to attendance at Recovery Colleges

Elizabeth Anne Dunn, Jessica Chow, Sara Meddings, Lissa June Haycock

The purpose of this paper is to explore what affects attendance at Recovery College, what students who have missed classes perceive to be the barriers to attendance and…