All Outputs (21)

Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding (2023)
Journal Article

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

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.

The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis (2023)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Therapeutic Communities and initial responses to COVID 19 (2020)
Journal Article

TCs and our global reach (2019)
Journal Article

Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery? (2018)
Journal Article

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

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.

Democracy in mental health care: therapeutic communities and the new recovery movement (2018)
Book Chapter

Therapeutic communities (2017)
Book Chapter

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

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

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

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.

Clay Transformations: transforming lives through mutual recovery (2015)
Conference Proceeding

Creative practice in a group setting (2015)
Journal Article

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.