Kirsten Lawson takes us through the key messages from the recent King’s Fund report on bringing together physical and mental health.
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Martin Stevens examines a study on mental health service user and practitioner experiences of personal budgets and finds that power and attitudes remain important factors.
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Martin Webber considers a Canadian study about social enterprises and employment opportunities for people with mental health problems such as psychosis.
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Ian Cummins examines research on multiple exclusion homelessness and finds that social work may have an important role for prevention.
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Martin Webber has a look at some Swedish research on user involvement through user advisory councils in mental health and substance misuse services.
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In this blog, Sarah Carr examines a systematic review into the psychosocial factors that help and hinder mental health recovery and discusses implications for policy.
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In this blog, Gerry Bennison offers an analysis of and perspectives on a study of employment programmes for people with learning disabilities or mental health problems.
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In his second blog on community treatment orders, Ian Cummins looks at a UK study on user, carer and practitioner perspectives and critiques the policy.
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Jo Moriatry considers a literature review on how people who have been marginalised in mainstream services are creating and finding support from micro providers and community organisations.
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Martin Webber critiques a US study capturing service user views on shared decision making in mental health care and discusses possible implications for social work.
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