News News Archive 2009 Recovery in Practice training
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| Thursday, 23 July 2009 |
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Recovery in Practice is a new two day training course designed for mental health service providers in the voluntary sector. Delivered by a partnership of Health in Mind and Penumbra it is intended to be an introduction to values and recovery focused practice. It will run four times between October 2009 and February 2010, with up to 20 people on each course. Anticipated learning outcomes include:
The training is based on the 10 Essential Shared Capabilities (Scotland), developed by NHS Education for Scotland (NES), and the Realising Recovery learning materials developed jointly by the Scottish Recovery Network and NES. Nominations are invited from voluntary sector organisations who may nominate up to eight people per organisation. See the background information document and application form for more detail.  Recovery in practice training background (114.32 kB) Recovery in practice application (155.5 kB) |
| 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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