Mental Health and Social Inclusion: Volume 23 Issue 1

Editorial

Rachel Perkins, Julie Repper

Research Watch: therapists’ working conditions and their implications for service users’ social inclusion

Sue Holttum

The purpose of this paper is to highlight possible implications of therapists’ working conditions on social inclusion of service users.

Shelley Seaton in conversation with Jerome Carson

Shelley Seaton, Jerome Carson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a profile of Shelley Seaton.

Generating mutual recovery in creative spaces

Victoria Stewart, Helena Roennfeldt, Maddy Slattery, Amanda J. Wheeler

Participation in creative activities have been linked with increased personal agency. The purpose of this paper is to address critical considerations in the development of…

Now they’re listening: involvement in clinical psychology training

Laura Lea, Sue Holttum, Victoria Butters, Diana Byrne, Helen Cable, Di Morris, John Richardson, Linda Riley, Hannah Warren

The 2014/2015 UK requirement for involvement of service users and carers in training mental health professionals has prompted the authors to review the work of involvement in…

Welcoming peer workers in NHS settings: facilitating readiness with an Early Intervention in Psychosis team

Kyt Proctor, Rachael Wood, Katherine Newman-Taylor

A pilot project commissioned to assess feasibility and impact of peer support in an Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service highlighted the importance of team readiness. The…

Evaluation of a new recovery college: delivering health outcomes and cost efficiencies via an educational approach

Katie Kay, George Edgley

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate cost efficiencies and health outcomes after one academic year of course delivery, in a recovery college.

Changing the font size on recovery: a co-produced dialogue between service user and psychologist

Meg Barrett, Ruth Lewis-Morton

The purpose of this paper is to co-produce the meaning of the word recovery and highlight the challenges to recovery in a secure inpatient setting.

The ghettoization of persons with severe mental illnesses

Janet Laura Stewart

The purpose of this paper is to outline the reflections of a person with lived experience of a severe mental illness (SMI) and former peer support worker in Montreal, Quebec…

Chronicles of one woman’s journey towards well-being: perspective

Jo Mullen

The purpose of this paper is to share the experiences and reflections of one woman’s journey towards well-being.