News News Archive 2008 Self management evaluates well
Self management evaluates well |
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| Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
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Taking Back Control (PDF) is the evaluation report of the first four Self-Management training courses run in Scotland over the past three years for people who experience Bipolar Disorder. The courses have been delivered as a partnership between MDF, the BiPolar Organisation who provided the training material and facilitators, and Bipolar Fellowship Scotland, who organised the courses, identified and provided support to participants. It is the aim of Bipolar Fellowship Scotland to work towards providing a rolling programme of Self-Management training courses in Scotland. The aim of the Self-Management training course is to teach people how to recognise personal triggers and signs of episodes and manage these effectively at an early stage, thereby preventing a more serious escalation. Course participants not only manage their own condition effectively, but some are trained as future facilitators. The benefits can have a lifelong impact. SRN advertise a range of events and resources developed by external organisations. In doing so we do not necessarily endorse or recommend them and we are in no way responsible for content or quality. |
| New SRN research explores the experience of recovery over time |
16 May Since the first discussions about bringing recovery based approaches to Scotland began, one thing has always been clear: that people's personal narratives - the stories and experiences they share - are central to understanding and encouraging mental health recovery. |
| Black women, recovery and resilience |
16 May In a specially commissioned article for SRN, researcher and psychiatric survivor Dr Jayasree Kalathil explores the issues of recovery and resilience from the perspective of black women interviewed for a 2011 study by Survivor Research and the Mental Health Foundation. While the article focuses on recent data from England, there are important lessons to be learnt everywhere, including Scotland. |
| What mental health practitioners talk about, when they talk about SRI 2 |
16 May Having recently facilitated Learning Networks on the use of the updated Scottish Recovery Indicator (SRI 2), SRN’s John McCormack was keen to hear from practitioners about their use of the tool and how it affects practice in the field. Here John shares his discussions with Lindsay Kerr and Jan Thomson who both work in NHS Ayrshire and Arran’s Mental Health Services. |
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