A Life in the Day: Volume 6 Issue 4
Table of contents
Coming back to life but not to work: Reflections on the unchanging experience of being an in‐patient
Mo HutchisonThis article is a reflection on the benefits of returning to work. Yet despite those benefits, the author, in describing her personal experience, suggests that not enough is being…
Escaping boundaries
Emma HardingHolidays can be learning experiences, too…! Emma Harding decribes how her holiday with a ‘client’ caused her to re‐evaluate her perceptions of their relationship to the benefit of…
Travelling hopefully: reflections on A Life in the Day
Adam PoznerAdam has been an editorial board member from the beginning and is also compiler of the journal's Network page. He looks back and reflects on how mental health and employment…
From exclusion to inclusion ‐‐ or vice versa?
Liz SayceLiz offers some reflections on the twists and turns of the political anti‐discrimination agenda during the past five years.
Putting first things first
Christiane HaerlinA German perspective on A Life in the Day, which suggests that the journal's influence spreads far and wide.
On the way to work: a vocational training project for people with mental health problems
Sinéad McGilloway, Michael DonnellyAn evaluation of the impact on participants' health and wellbeing of a vocational training programme in Northern Ireland begun under the European Union's Horizon initiative.
Reflections on changes to the benefits system, 1997 to 2002
Judy ScottIs the path back to work paved with incentives? Reflecting on the last five years, Judy, an editorial board member and the regular compiler of the journal's Benefits page…
Changing societal ambivalence towards an ‘invisible’ disability
Mary NettleA member of the journal's editorial board reflects on the continuing contribution A Life in the Day makes towards national debates around mental health.
Employment: ‘too much, the wrong sort, or none at all’
Mark BertramIt has been said that the trouble with employment is that it offers ‘too much, the wrong sort, or none at all’. Mark suggests that far from relying on ‘rocket science’ the first…
Double trouble ‐ reflections on the experience of ‘dual diagnosis’
Andrew WebsterAndrew Webster is a regular contributor to A Life in the Day. His personal reflections concern his changing understanding of the relationship between his own alcoholism and mental…
What's new?
Adam PoznerMany readers will have heard the acronym NIMHE being bandied around and we provide a short profile of this new government agency. Next, Direct Payments are little used, but may…