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The ‘lifesaving’ 2018 “Reading Well for mental health” titles by The Reading Agency and Society of Chief Librarians were announced at a flagship event at the Wellcome Trust on Tuesday 5 June 2018.
Families and carers in Solihull are being encouraged to access a new specialist collection of books, stories and resources to support children’s mental health and wellbeing. The new Chelmsley Wood Reading Den opens today (Monday 14 May) at Chelmsley Wood Library. The Den provides specialist books, stories and resources to promote mental health wellbeing for parents, carers and children across Solihull. It has been designed with the particular needs of fostered and adopted children and young people in mind.
CPFT specialist clinical psychologist Dr Kate Nurser has conducted the first UK research on how storytelling can help the recovery of people who have experienced mental health challenges.
Pledge Ensuring that a pilot Trust Staff Reading Group event occurs in the new library lounge.
This is a service enhancement responding to library members suggestions and will be delivered with Wirral Public Library Service
Journal of Rural Mental Health41.2 (Apr 2017): 162-173.
This study investigated the relative effects of 3 12-week secondary prevention interventions for problem drinking men and women in rural counties in New York State. The participants were 111 self-referred men and women without severe dependence on alcohol who nevertheless reported heavy drinking and a desire to reduce their alcohol consumption. They were assigned randomly to 1 of 3 12-week interventions focused on reducing alcohol intake: bibliotherapy (a self-directed manual) alone, bibliotherapy with 1 telephone-administered motivational interview, or bibliotherapy with 1 telephone-administered motivational interview and 6 biweekly telephone therapy sessions. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
Gives people the chance to “loan out” the expertise of others by talking to “human books” about their experiences.
Doctors and ‘experts by experience’ will also give talks, while local organisations will hold stalls showcasing the support which they offer.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the Trust have teamed up with the charity Rethink to run a book group for young people.
But this is a book group with a difference – as we will try to get the author to come along too to talk about the book with you!We can provide copies of the book. All you have to do is read it and come along to the book group to share your thoughts.
The book group is a fun way to meet new people, talk about issues raised in the book and hear what others thought.It’s OK to have a different view to everyone else. In fact, it makes it more interesting when a book sparks lots of different responses!
Elizabeth Collier writes her debut blog on the REMCARE randomised controlled trial of reminiscence groups for people with dementia and their family carers.
Ashdown psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Fountain Way Hospital in Salisbury has hosted a trial book club for service users which has really taken off.
Life on a PICU ward can sometimes be hectic, but the book club gives people a safe place to share their ideas, experiences and feelings through reading, as well as develop communication and social interaction skills.
Occupational therapist Adenike Adedipe said "I had been running some group reading sessions on the ward, but joining forces with our Wiltshire [NHS] librarian enabled us to take a more evidence based approach and develop the existing group."
Victoria Treadway et al report on an NHS/public library partnership project between Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Wirral Council to support the wellbeing of people living with dementia, creating reminiscence boxes which are available in public libraries and in the local acute hospital.
I joined a packed session at a recent ‘Shakespeare400’ conference at King’s College London which explored this question by looking at King Lear. In this play, the character of the king becomes increasingly ‘mad’. Having left his castle, he finds himself lost on a heath during a literal and metaphorical storm.