A Life in the Day: Volume 6 Issue 1
Table of contents
Friendship, intimacy and sexuality among persons with serious mental illness
Nan Rich, William Whetstone, David LowsonGenuinely user‐centred mental health services claim to respond to the wants and aspirations of people with mental health problems. Surveys of service users' wants show that they…
The Able Volunteers programme
Peter BatesDuring 2001 the National Development Team has been running the ‘Able Volunteers’ programme. This is a year‐long research programme that has been investigating inclusive…
Trumpeting volunteers
Trevor MundayThe words ‘meaningful occupation’ have been used and abused in official documents and journals but it is rare that anyone ever says what they mean. We are not going to attempt a…
Working Like Crazy to promote social enterprises and user/survivor‐run businesses
Tessa Parkes, Sara Meddings, Steve TilleyThis inspiring article describes a series of activities that have taken place in the UK over the past year (2001) aiming to generate interest in user/survivor/consumer‐run social…
My day at the First Step Trust project in Broadmoor
JamesFor the past two years the First Step Trust (FST) has been running a work experience project in Broadmoor. This has been evaluated and has been shown to be successful in raising…
New publications
Adam PoznerIn this issue, we profile two new and very different publications. The first is a compilation of poetry and prose written by users and ex‐users of mental health services across…
Care Programme to Work: The end of the beginning
Bob Grove, Patience SeebohmThis article summarises the findings of the Care Programme to Work Project and describes some of the publications that it has produced. Care Programme to Work was a three‐year…