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Page last updated: 12/11/2005 Alternatives in Mental Health is delighted to announce some exciting developments following July 2004's successful taster day event and booklet. These are outlined below... Website LaunchWe launched our brand new website in November 2005. On it you can read about the background of our project, as well as brief descriptions of the different types of therapies available and their benefits. There are also useful contact details for local practitioners and national organisations. We will be updating this page on a regular basis with details of our current progress, latest events and proposed plans. Recent events10th October marks World Mental Health Day. For 2005 we held some free therapy sessions each Monday during October at Lambeth Mind offices for the benefits of our volunteers and staff. The therapies we offered were:
We hope to mark World Mental Health Day in the same way next year offering therapy sessions to members of Lambeth Mind – watch out for details in Lambeth Mind News. Thanks to all that participated and helped make these sessions happen this time around. Free Mind booklet offerCurrently we have a limited number of Mind booklets available for free. They are produced by national Mind Publications and give more detailed information on the various alternative and complementary therapies and approaches. We have the following titles available:
If you are interested in receiving a booklet, contact Lambeth Mind (below) leaving your name, address, contact details and importantly stating which booklet you would like to receive, as well as your 2nd preference. Note there may be a limit of only one booklet to each address. Lambeth Mind free booklet offer ResearchTo enable us to provide low-cost and/or free complementary therapies for mental health service users in Lambeth and Southwark, we’re planning a piece of research with results we hope will help when making future bids for funding. We are planning to work with SURE (Service User Research Enterprise) which is based at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) in south London and led by Dr Diana Rose who has years of experience in supervising user focused research. We will select two different types of therapies in order to evaluate and establish their effectiveness. Sixteen mental health service users from Lambeth and Southwark will be taking part in the research which we plan to begin in 2006. Further information about the recruitment of service users will be available in the Lambeth Mind News and Southwark Mind’s monthly newsletter. A summary of the research analysis will also be printed in these newsletters. To be put on their mailing list, contact Lambeth Mind (as above) or Southwark Mind: Southwark Mind Resource databaseIf you are a practitioner or therapist who would like to join our project and have an interest in working with people who are users of mental health services or have experience of mental distress, then contact Lambeth Mind (as above). We will add you onto our database for our next update. |
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Renuka Bhakta Coordinator -
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