Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 14 Issue 4

Editorial

Ian Shaw

Mental health, social exclusion and social inclusion

Jenny Secker

In the UK the concept of social exclusion came into widespread use in mental health following the publication of an influential Social Exclusion Unit report in 2004. Based on a…

Mental health and the Gujarati community: accounting for the low incidence rates of mental illness

Kajal Patel, Ian Shaw

This paper explores issues surrounding the under‐representation of people from the Gujarati community in mental health statistics and services in the UK and asks why people from…

A participatory action research project evaluating a carers' representation group ‐ Carers Against Stigma

Joanna Fox

I describe the development of a group in North London that aimed to increase the involvement of carers in the development and monitoring of mental health services across the…

Jean Vanier and the Transformational Model of Rehabilitation

Donna Forster, Mary McColl, Margo Paterson, Hélène Ouellette‐Kuntz

The focus of this paper is the Transformational Model of Rehabilitation. The paper outlines key elements of rehabilitation therapy models before proceeding to describe the…

Mental health care co‐ordinators' perspectives on carers' assessments

Joy Wales, Steven Pryjmachuk

In the UK, there are around 1.5 million carers of people with mental health problems providing substantial amounts of free care. Despite having a legal right to a ‘carer's…