Making Recovery a Reality      

Geoff Shepherd, Jed Boardman & Mike Slade

Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

Experts by Experience     

A guide for developing and implementing peer worker rules

Scottish Recovery Network

Experts by Experience     

Values Framework for Peer Working

Scottish Recovery Network

FIT Repetition    

Intellectual and behavioral welfare program

Daniel Fernandez Cantalapiedra

Sustaining Hope - Final Report      

Summary report which details the findings of a joint project with a large social care provider in Scotland to look at how they were translating their commitment to recovery into practice.

World Journal of Psychiatry      

Article on peer support in Scotland based on some research we commissioned to look at why, despite Government support, there are still very few peer support posts in our health service.

Positive Psychotherapy       

Martin E. P. Seligman, Tayyab Rashid and Acacia C. Parks

Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania

The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care       

Unfortunately, people distressed by these illnesses often do not seek out services or choose to fully engage in them. One factor that impedes care seeking and undermines the service system is mental illness stigma.

Patrick W. Corrigan, Benjamin G. Druss, and Deborah A. Perlick

Peer Support Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Report From the Field       

This article defines peer support as a form of mental health care and reviews data from 4 randomized controlled trials, which demonstrated few differences between the outcomes of conventional care when provided by peers versus non-peers.

Larry Davidson, Matthew Chinman, David Sells and Michael Rowe

Do your services promote recovery?       

Ashcraft, L., Ph.D., and Anthony, William, Ph.D

Pillars of Peer Support: Transforming Mental Health Systems of Care Through Peer Support Services       

Medicaid Coverage of Peer Support for People with Mental Illness.       

Steve Eiken, Thomson Reuters Jean Campbell, Ph.D.

Involving users in the delivery and evaluation of mental health services: systematic review.       

Five randomised controlled trials and seven other comparative studies were identified. Half of the studies considered involving users in managing cases. Involving users as employees of mental health services led to clients having greater satisfaction with personal circumstances and less hospitalisation.

Emma L. Simpson, Allan O. House

Recovery for real – A summary of findings from the REFOCUS programme.       

This report summarises the finding from the REFOCUS programme, which took place in England from 2009 to 2014. The document is written for the general public, and describes what the study involved and what we found.

Ben Fortune, Victoria Bird, Ruth Chandler, Joanna Fox, Ruth Hennem, John Larsen, Clair Le Boutillier, Mary Leamy, Rob Macpherson, Julie Williams, Mike Slade.

“Paving the way to recovery - the Personal Ombudsman System”

A film by "Mental Health Europe".

Interviews by Silvana Enculescu and Gabor Petri. Shot and edited by Silvana Enculescu

“A Small History of Psychiatry”

A video by "The Crazy about Work Foundation"

Video produced during the training session “Communication skills” of one of the trainings organized by Promente (Austria). This course is addressed at people who would like to become peer support workers. Activity carried out in the framework of PEER2PEER Project, funded by the European Commission.

http://www.researchintorecovery.com/

This short animation explains what SRN mean by recovery and the work we are doing to achieve our vision of 'A Scotland where mental health recovery is a reality for all'.

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