Mental Health and Social Inclusion: Volume 26 Issue 2

Editorial: A new era and moving forward

Jerome Carson, Julie Prescott

Digital technology to support mental health: a brief introduction to what it is and why it is important?

Julie Prescott

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to a new regular series for this journal, Mental Health and Social Inclusion, on digital innovations.

Remarkable lives: Zoe Riley in conversation with Jerome Carson

Zoe Riley, Jerome Carson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a profile of Zoe Riley.

Hosting persons with mental illness: narrative study on the experiences of a female caregiver managing a mental home in Ghana

Salome Amissah-Essel, Nancy Innocentia Ebu Enyan, Christiana Asiedu

Persons with mental illness (PWMI) need to be housed and cared for properly. Providing this support can be physically, financially and psychologically exhausting for the…

The risk of risk management: adopting critical theories to explore clinical risk concerns in mental health care

Kris Deering, Jo Williams, Rob Williams

The purpose of this paper is to outline several critical risk theories and explore their application to risk concerns in mental health care. This will contribute to the on-going…

Restraint and confinement of psychiatric patients in community: a scoping review of pasung in Indonesia

Dahniar Dahniar, Rini Asnurianti, Nurul Amna, Marthoenis Marthoenis

The practice of restraint and confinement of patients with mental disorders is common in Indonesia. This practice is known as pasung and is usually carried out by the family or…

Mental health support needs within Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities: a qualitative study

Rebecca May Thompson, Bridie Victoria Stone, Philip John Tyson

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) people within the UK and the Republic of Ireland are underrepresented within research and policies despite high rates of mental illness and…

Social determinants of mental well-being: senses of powerlessness and empowerment among Romani in Ukraine

Viktoriia Gorbunova, Natalia Gusak, Vitalii Klymchuk, Valeriia Palii, Vitalina Ustenko, Zemfira Kondur, Viola Popenko, John Oates

The purpose of this paper is to explore senses of powerlessness and empowerment among Romani in Ukraine in relation to such social circles as the extended family, the Romani local…

Bring recovery to young people: the development of a “discovery college” in Ireland

Chloe Costello

Discovery Colleges are new, exciting innovations. The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of developing and implementing the first pilot of a Discovery College for…

Remarkable recoveries: an interpretation of recovery narratives using the CHIME model

Robert Hurst, Jerome Carson, Aishath Shahama, Hollie Kay, Courtney Nabb, Julie Prescott

The purpose of this paper is to review the 16 published non-student Recovery Heroes and Remarkable Lives accounts published in Mental Health and Social Inclusion, using the…