Centre for Mental Health

Mental Health and Social Inclusion

The journal for all mental health practitioners and managers.

Mental Health and Social Inclusion has a unique focus on social inclusion issues faced by people who use mental health services. It looks at how people can enjoy full and satisfying lives in their local communities - finding jobs, learning new skills, volunteering, taking up exercise, getting involved in sports or participating in arts and cultural activities. Other areas include housing, finance, spirituality, relationships, self-help, peer support and recovery.

Many contributors are themselves users of (or former users of) mental health services and write from personal experience of the projects they describe.

Typical recent articles include

• Developing modern, socially inclusive day services
• Outcomes of IPS supported employment programmes
• Promoting inclusion through supported housing
• Social exclusion within Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
• Peer support initiatives
• Personal accounts of recovery

Mental Health and Social Inclusion is published quarterly and edited by Adam Pozner of Trinova, a consultancy and research agency specialising in mental health and social inclusion issues.

The contents and a sample article from each issue are available to download free from their website.