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Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding (2023)
Journal Article
Hayes, D., Camacho, E. M., Ronaldson, A., Stepanian, K., McPhilbin, M., Elliott, R. A., …Slade, M. (2023). Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Article 02452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02452-w

Purpose Recovery Colleges (RCs) have been implemented across England with wide variation in organisational characteristics. The purpose of this study is to describe RCs across England in terms of organisational and student characteristics, fidelit... Read More about Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding.

The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Egglestone, S. R., & Winship, G. (2023). The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis. Nursing Philosophy, 24(4), Article e12418. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12418

The philosophy of Thomas Kuhn proposes that scientific progress involves periods of crisis and revolution in which previous paradigms are discarded and replaced. Revolutions in how mental health problems are conceptualised have had a substantial impa... Read More about The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis.

Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing in England (RECOLLECT): rationale and protocol (2022)
Journal Article
Hayes, D., Henderson, C., Bakolis, I., Lawrence, V., Elliott, R. A., Ronaldson, A., …Slade, M. (2022). Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing in England (RECOLLECT): rationale and protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 22(1), Article 627. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04253-y

Background: Recovery Colleges are a relatively recent initiative within mental health services. The first opened in 2009 in London and since then numbers have grown. They are based on principles of personal recovery in mental health, co-production be... Read More about Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing in England (RECOLLECT): rationale and protocol.

The poetic wavelength–a narrative interview study exploring the potential of poetry to support meaning making and recovery following psychosis (2022)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Rennick-Egglestone, S., & Winship, G. (2022). The poetic wavelength–a narrative interview study exploring the potential of poetry to support meaning making and recovery following psychosis. Psychosis, https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2022.2116475

Background: Despite growing evidence demonstrating the psychotherapeutic potential of reading and writing poetry for various mental health problems, there remains limited evidence in relation to psychosis. This paper explores the therapeutic potentia... Read More about The poetic wavelength–a narrative interview study exploring the potential of poetry to support meaning making and recovery following psychosis.

Interview with RD Hinshelwood (2022)
Journal Article
Hinshelwood, R. D., & Winship, G. (2022). Interview with RD Hinshelwood. Therapeutic Communities, 43(3-4), 154-162. https://doi.org/10.1108/TC-07-2022-0010

Purpose: A one-day conference organised by the University of Essex and the Consortium of Therapeutic Communities, 10 December, 2021 with the theme, “The Unconscious and Organisations”. Presentations and discussions throughout the conference had the a... Read More about Interview with RD Hinshelwood.

Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment (2021)
Journal Article
Joyes, E. C., Jordan, M., Winship, G., & Crawford, P. (2021). Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 690384. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690384

The landscape of mental health recovery is changing; there have been calls for a shift from the clinical expertise being the dominant voice within mental healthcare towards a more personalised and collaborative service that supports those in need of... Read More about Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment.

The evolution of mental health in schools: where from, where next? (2021)
Journal Article
Winship, G. (2021). The evolution of mental health in schools: where from, where next?. Cambridge Journal of Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764x.2021.1891204

The current agenda for mental health in schools is considered in relation to the concept of mental health and how it has been iterated in schools in the UK. Key contributions from education pioneers are outlined, providing a time line for the first h... Read More about The evolution of mental health in schools: where from, where next?.

The cry for professional intimacy: A UK study of changes in the working lives of expert practitioners in health and education during the early 21st century (2020)
Journal Article
Birkbeck, F., Townsend, A., & Winship, G. (2020). The cry for professional intimacy: A UK study of changes in the working lives of expert practitioners in health and education during the early 21st century. Cogent Education, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2020.1798599

This paper reports on factors affecting the working lives of practitioners in health and education in the UK. The context is the increasing evidence of low recruitment, low retention rates and a high incidence of stress amongst expert practitioners i... Read More about The cry for professional intimacy: A UK study of changes in the working lives of expert practitioners in health and education during the early 21st century.

Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery? (2018)
Journal Article
Argyle, E., & Winship, G. (2018). Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery?. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 9(3), 385-397. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.9.3.385_1

This article summarises the findings of a project called ‘Clay Transformations’ and was part of the Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery Programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Using a mixed methods approach, the project aimed t... Read More about Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery?.

The essentials of counselling and psychotherapy in primary schools : on being a specialist mental health lead in schools (2018)
Book
Winship, G., & MacDonald, S. (2018). The essentials of counselling and psychotherapy in primary schools : on being a specialist mental health lead in schools. Routledge

The book is targeted at all practitioners in the helping and enabling professions working with children and young people, and is essential reading for anyone undertaking training where elements of psychotherapy and counselling are requisite to practi... Read More about The essentials of counselling and psychotherapy in primary schools : on being a specialist mental health lead in schools.

Therapeutic communities (2017)
Book Chapter
Clarke, S., Winship, G., Clarke, J., & Manning, N. (2017). Therapeutic communities. In M. Chambers (Ed.), Psychiatic and mental health nursing: the craft of caring (631-640). Abingdon: Routledge

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this chapter we hope that you will be able to: 1.Understand some of the core principles underlying Therapeutic Communities (TCs). 2.Identify the historic roots behind TCs in terms of providing an alternative therapeut... Read More about Therapeutic communities.

Recovery is no laughing matter – or is it? (2016)
Journal Article
Barker, A. B., & Winship, G. (2016). Recovery is no laughing matter – or is it?. Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 20(3), 167-173. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-02-2016-0006

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe an exploratory pilot study to assess the methods used to evaluate an innovative programme of comedy workshops for a small cohort of people recovering from substance misuse problems. The comedy works... Read More about Recovery is no laughing matter – or is it?.

A meta-recovery framework: positioning the ‘New Recovery’ movement and other recovery approaches (2016)
Journal Article
Winship, G. (2016). A meta-recovery framework: positioning the ‘New Recovery’ movement and other recovery approaches. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12266

This paper argues for a delineated explanation of the range of recovery approaches currently informing mental health interventions today. Four organizing domains of recovery are proposed: (1) Traditional Recovery; (2) Addictions Recovery; (3) New Rec... Read More about A meta-recovery framework: positioning the ‘New Recovery’ movement and other recovery approaches.

The primary school as a therapeutic community (2016)
Journal Article
MacDonald, S., & Winship, G. (2016). The primary school as a therapeutic community. Therapeutic Communities, 37(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/TC-01-2016-0001

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the changes underway in the delivery of services to children and young people in schools, not least that OFTSED will soon be routinely carrying out an assessment of mental health provision in schools... Read More about The primary school as a therapeutic community.

Creative practice in a group setting (2015)
Journal Article
Argyle, E., & Winship, G. (2015). Creative practice in a group setting. Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 19(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-04-2015-0014

Purpose – Involvement in creative practice is commonly regarded as “therapeutic” but what is actually meant by this and how does this work promote social inclusion and mental well-being, particularly when performed in a group setting? Drawing on the... Read More about Creative practice in a group setting.

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Del Nevo, M., & Winship, G. (2015). Introduction. In Sex and religion: two texts of early feminist psychoanalysis. Transaction