Mental Health and Social Inclusion: Volume 14 Issue 1

Editorial

Adam Pozner

Policy watch

Simon Lawton‐Smith

A quarterly review of recent and forthcoming developments within mental health policy.

Recovery heroes ‐ a profile of Matthew Ward

Matthew Ward, Hannah Cordle, Jane Fradgley, Jerome Carson

While the concept of recovery is one of the main drivers in contemporary mental health services (Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, 2009), it is not uncontentious (Mind, 2008)…

Social inclusion and recovery for young people with first episode psychosis: a London survey of early intervention in psychosis teams and their links with the further education system

Annie Lau, Alison Black, Victoria Sturdy

This article is an account of an ambitious change management effort across the inter‐organisational divide of health and education. It focused on improving the relationships…

When it pays to be bipolar ‐ the world of service user research

Debbie Mayes

My name is Debbie Mayes and I am writing as someone with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder who is also a researcher. This article is about service user research ‐ a growing trend in…

Time to Change

Kate Stringer

This article profiles Time to Change ‐ England's most ambitious programme of work to tackle the stigma and discrimination that people with mental health problems face. The…

Recovery: a selective review of the literature and resources

Jerome Carson, Gordon McManus, Anant Chander

There has been a huge increase in the literature and resources devoted to the topic of recovery. Unusually in the mental health field, recovery is a concept that has been embraced…