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Our comedy workshop @ Celf

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Yesterday as a team we explored how comedy could inform our work around participation - specifically around engaging with people who have been in contact with mental health services or those close to them - and learned new ways to tell stories or describe experiences. Who better to enlist to help us than Owen Griffkin of Havin' A Laugh fame. And what better premises for our workshop than the Celf Centre run by the art charity  Celf O Gwympas in Llandrindod Wells . The place is stuffed full of weird and wonderful and very inspiring artwork. You only have to look at some of it to find yourself smiling. And, they even have red noses of their very own! Perfect for those of us working on a Comic Relief funded project called Standing up for emotional health and wellbeing (that would be Anne then, far right in the photo). Artwork at Celf by Dean Warburton In our very own bespoke Havin' A Laugh workshop Owen took us through a series of games over the course of a couple of hours. We ...

Ymddygiad gwrth-gymdeithasol a iechyd meddwl – beth mae gwasanaethau angen ei ystyried? Anti-social behaviour and mental health – what do services need to consider?

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Meddyliau o brosiect ymchwil gan Philip Moisson Thoughts from a research project by Philip Moisson Gall ymddygiad a dargedir gan y ddeddfwriaeth ar ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol fod yn arwydd o broblemau iechyd meddwl (fel yr ysgrifennwyd amdano yma - efallai y bydd y cynnwys yn peri gofid i rai darllenwyr).  Mae'r blog hwn yn ymwneud â phroject ymchwil yr ydym newydd ei gwblhau a oedd yn canolbwyntio ar 'bobl fregus ac ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol'. Bu i ni edrych sut yr oedd ymarfer cyfredol yn edrych i bobl â phroblemau iechyd meddwl y mae ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol yn effeithio arnynt, naill ai fel dioddefwyr, tramgwyddwyr neu dystion. Behaviours targeted by the anti-social behaviour legislation can be a sign of mental health problems (as written about here - some readers may find the content upsetting). This blog is about a research project we have just completed that focused on ‘vulnerable people and anti-social behaviour’. We explored what current practice looked l...

Positive Action for Change in Mental Health Services - Part 2

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Last week I posted Part 1 of my report on this one-day conference which took place in November 2015 in Nottingham. It was organised by PCCS Books and looked at how services could try and break out of their medicalised approach to supporting people experiencing mental distress. Many of those in the packed audience worked professionally in psychology or psychiatry departments, and it was heartening to note their interest in the overriding theme and sense a real enthusiasm to drive some of these approaches forward in their own teams. Clinical Psychologist Lucy Johnstone, and Professor Peter Beresford, had spoken passionately about their work in the morning session. This week I cover talks given by the two afternoon keynote speakers, Professor Sami Timimi and author and educator Pete Sanders. I will also touch on the work of organisations like the Soteria Network who attended to spread the word about their developing and ground-breaking work across the UK. Sami Timimi – Beyond diagnosis: d...