Mental health practitioners have traditionally regarded the long-term prognosis for severe
mental illness1 to be poor, with a steady deterioration of functioning over the lifespan …

This paper reports findings from a study which analysed the narratives of individuals who
described themselves as recovered or recovering from psychosis, a term referring to …

Black ethnicity is associated with increased risk for psychosis in South London. This study
explored the distribution of ethnicity among services users at ultra high risk for psychosis …

The association between mental illness and poor physical health and socioeconomic
outcomes has been well established. In the twenty-first century, the challenge of how mental …

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and contributors and not of The University of Bristol or The Policy Press.[...] In response to …

Background: Social inclusion is a key priority of the Fourth National Mental Health Plan for
Australia (2009–2014), with strong evidence for its protective impact on mental health …

BackgroundThere have been few prospective studies of the long-term outcome of psychosis
in people of Afro-Caribbean origin in the UK. MethodWe followed-up a population-based …

Objective: This paper aims to offer an overview of the mental health needs of Indigenous
men and women in the criminal justice system and how Indigenous cultural perspectives on …

Setting: General population in Southeast London, Nottingham, and Bristol, UK; September
1997 to August 1999. Population: 1 029 802 people aged 16–64 years living in the three …

This article discusses the value of a narrative approach to understand the experiences of
people with severe mental illnesses and the systems around them, and the importance of …