Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 15 Issue 2

Editorial

Chiara Samele

Green shoots of recovery: the impact of a mental health ecotherapy programme

Neil Wilson, Susan Fleming, Russell Jones, Kevin Lafferty, Kirsty Cathrine, Pete Seaman, Lee Knifton

Branching Out is a 12‐week ecotherapy programme for clients who use mental health services within the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area. Over the course of a year 110 clients…

Physical health care policies in mental health trusts within the North East Midlands (UK)

Graeme Tosh, Andrew Clifton, Clive Adams

In recent years there has been an increasing focus on improving the physical health of people with serious mental illness and many policies and guidelines are now tailored to…

What factors affect the lifestyle choices of people with schizophrenia?

Hosam Abed

People who have schizophrenia have higher rates of morbidity and mortality and a shorter life expectancy partly due to less healthy lifestyle choices such as a diet lacking in…

Using short message services in mental health services: assessing feasibility

Harpreet Sanghara, Eugenia Kravariti, Hanne Jakobsen, Chike Okocha

On average, the National Health Service (NHS) loses annually £360 million in opportunity costs due to non‐attendance of outpatient appointments (Stone et al, 1999). In addition to…

Innovatory features and challenges facing mental health user‐led organisations

Melanie Boyce, Carol Munn‐Giddings, Lesley Smith, Sarah Campbell

Despite the recent growing interest in user‐led organisations (ULOs), they remain an under‐researched area of volunteer sector activity, with the majority of the literature…

Promoting well‐being by changing behaviour: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the effectiveness of whole secondary school behavioural interventions

Lindsay Blank, Susan Baxter, Elizabeth Goyder, Paul Naylor, Louise Guillaume, Anna Wilkinson, Silvia Hummel, Jim Chilcott

This paper reports on a systematic review of the published literature on the effectiveness of whole‐school behavioural interventions, which aim to promote emotional and social…