This paper describes and discusses the evaluation of
an innovative child and adolescent mental health
project located in a large county in eastern England.
The project was one of eight located in the
voluntary sector and supported by the Mental

To promote stable mental wellbeing during childhood (from birth – 19 years old) should be a major priority for governments. This is the time within the lifespan when children will learn and develop the most, so positive influences are greatest…

Midwives across the UK have been undertaking the discharge examination of newborn babies
for more than ten years. The perception is that many have the examination of the newborn
qualification but do not use it. An audit was undertaken of…

Considerable attention has recently been directed towards the analysis of pluralism in social science, not least in economics. Plurality is often taken as a mark of pluralism. But it is not the same thing, and often indicates little more than…

Copyright by Sage Publications, 2008. Published in Journal of Research in Nursing, 13(6), pp.465-477., Action research (AR) is promoted for health care development. A systematic review was undertaken to gain insight into the uptake and designs of practice-based AR. Empirical…

This paper represents a starting point in an information literacy research project by academic librarians in a UK university. The research project explores ways of enabling and encouraging quality student reading through the development of a University Reading Strategy, a…

The idea of spirituality at work has increasingly become a focus of attention.
Calls for introducing this dimension of our lives into the workplace have
major implications for business leaders. How might business leaders face up
to this challenge, and…

There are few practical tools for how we can develop the trust needed to be able to work with ourselves and our colleagues, nor on how
we can develop the organisational conditions that enable us to trust ourselves and others,…

Much organisational theory has been inspired by ideas of complexity and chaos theory. However, does this really happen in practice? Greg
O’Shea argues that, to maintain these principles, we need to be able to dig deeper into what is happening…

Bronwen Rees interviews Professor Apichai Puntasen
about the attempts to introduce the King’s ideas
of Sufficiency Economy into Thailand. The core of this philosophy is developing compassion and co-operation rather than competition.