Background: Attitudes towards the use of outcome measures by professionals working in mental health
have been shown to be variable. Occupational therapists appear to have difficulty specifying goals and measuring the outcomes of interventions.
Aims: To measure the outcomes of…

This paper describes an evaluation of a child and adolescent mental health project located in a large County in Eastern England. The project was one of eight developed in the voluntary sector and supported by the UK Mental Health Foundation…

The aim of this paper was to explore how a military career may affect the mental health
of serving and ex-service personnel, to identify the accessibility and helpfulness of
support (both during and after military service) and to make recommendations…

Background: Promoting the social inclusion of mental health service users is a UK policy priority, but the development of outcome measures in this area is at an early stage. Aim: To develop a social inclusion measure for use in a…

Although participation in arts activity is believed to have important mental health and social benefits for people with mental health needs, the evidence base is currently weak. This paper reports the first phase of a study intended to support the…

The first social work course to focus on children's mental health in the UK began in 1929 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The subsequent child guidance movement spawned the genesis of child and adolescent mental health…

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 emanating from North America. This
article attempts to redress this imbalance by reporting on the innovatory…

For most of us, the home is considered to be our castle: when we close the doors, it is our equivalent to pulling up the drawbridge, thereby retreating from the outside world. But more often, there is no retreat from…

There is increasing concern over the number of university students and university staff who require psychological support; however, little is known about the impact of this on higher education (HE) staff. University employees (n=91) from two UK universities completed an…