Shift: What’s the Story – Reporting on mental health and suicide

     Shift: What’s the Story – Reporting on mental health and suicide, 18th February 2008
This handbook is packed with useful facts, figures and contacts. It is designed to help you do your job when covering these stories, whether you’re a print, broadcast or magazine journalist.
The handbook also contains tips on how best to avoid causing [...]

Tall Order? – Will Compulsory Treatment Orders (CTOs) Work

    Will community treatment orders work? Health Service Journal, 24th January 2008
Compulsory treatment orders are on their way but critics claim there is a worrying lack of evidence that they can help ‘revolving door’ patients, writes Mark Gould
Abstract: This autumn might see more than a few managers feeling higher than average symptoms of stress. On 1 [...]

The Elderly – Out of Sight, Out of Mind – Age Concern

   Out of sight, out of mind: Social exclusion behind closed doors, 15th February 2008, Age Concern
Social exclusion in later life: summary, solutions and recommendations

Key Facts

1.2 million people over 50 are severely excluded: 400,000 aged 50 to 64, 360,000 aged 65 to 79, and 400,000 aged over 80. They have an average income of just [...]

OT – The meanings of craft to an Occuapational Therapist

   The meanings of craft to an occupational therapist , Emma Harris,  Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 165-166, Jun 2007
Abstract:
Aim:  Craft was the first therapeutic occupation of occupational therapy. Since the early days of the profession, the value of craft in practice is a topic that has been discussed with fluctuating interest. [...]