Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 18 Issue 3

“Talk” about male suicide? Learning from community programmes

Mark Robinson, Debbie Braybrook, Steve Robertson

The purpose of this paper is to examine the contribution of public awareness campaigning in developing community capacity toward preventing male suicide and explores emerging…

P.I.C.U., H.D.U., A.O.A. What treatment do we provide? Current descriptions of the function of intensive care for inpatient psychiatric health care

Karleen Gwinner, Louise Ward

This paper adds to growing research of psychiatric intensive care units (PICU) by recounting descriptions of psychiatric intensive care settings and discusses the perceptions held…

The importance of step-down programmes: the Imago group

Anna D. Williams, Elizabeth Bickford-Smith, Claire King, Alex Tagg

The Imago group was developed in 2010 as a step-down group for members of the Winterbourne Therapeutic Community (TC) who had completed their treatment. This paper aims to review…

Supervised community treatment: patient perspectives in two Merseyside mental health teams

Gary Michael Fahy, Syed Javaid, Jonathan Best

– This paper explores the perspectives of patients subject to supervised community treatment (SCT) within two mental health teams in Merseyside.

A five-year evaluation of the Human Givens therapy using a practice research network

William Peter Andrews, Andrew Peter Wislocki, Fay Short, Daryl Chow, Takuya Minami

To replicate the Luton pilot study (Andrews et al., 2011), both by investigating treatment changes using the Human Givens (HG) approach via a practice research network (PRN) and…