Making contact

Article Abstract:

Ashworth Special Hospital, Merseyside, England has introduced social interaction therapy to improve mentally ill patients' confidence and self-esteem. Eight patients participated in the project. Preliminary sessions covered communication skills involved in meeting, conversing and listening. Video recording of role-playing sessions reinforced acquired skills. Back-up sessions continued informally in the wards and eventually extended to town visits. Increased patient confidence has prompted establishment of regular weekly sessions.

Training, Social skills

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Making it together: shunning more traditional therapies, one group of nurses and patients collaborated to produce an imaginative work of art

Article Abstract:

In 1995, the Roseberry Centre for child and family mental health, based in Middlesborough, England, took part in World Mental Health Day by encouraging its patients and nurses to create a communal work of art. Children were encouraged to produce imaginative pictures, the best of which were re-created as ceramic tiles. The final picture was then displayed in the paediatric ward of the local hospital. The exercise is seen as encouraging a closer and more equal relationship between staff and their young clients.

Social policy, Art, Mentally ill children, Child psychiatric services

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Making a fresh start

Article Abstract:

A secure unit resident describes the effect of repeated periods in seclusion. Since 1973 the patient has been confined in Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton Hospitals, England. She was routinely locked in a barely furnished room and deprived of normal services in response to difficult behaviour. Such treatment has had profound psychological effects. Rehabilitation has had to overcome suspicion of kindness.

Psychiatric hospital patients, Patient isolation

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