News Promoting Recovery in Early Psychosis
05/2010
JELLYCAT MEDIA CONTRIBUTE CHAPTER TO NEW BOOK
Jellycat Media Managing Director Kate Macdonald has contributed a chapter to a new book ‘Promoting Recovery in Early Psychosis: A Practice Manual’.
The chapter focuses on raising community awareness of psychosis, examining the evidence for mental health promotion. In the form of case studies, she describes her own experiences promoting PSYPHER the early intervention service she set up for young people in Hull and the East Riding and with Jellycat Media.
The first social enterprise to come out of early intervention services, Jellycat Media aims to raise awareness and reduce the stigma of mental health problems, empowering young people though creative workshops and work experience whilst providing high quality media services and consultancy to the wider public.
There has been an extraordinary shift in how the understanding and treatment of psychosis, none more so than in the arena of Early Intervention (EI) bringing with it new hope for young people with emerging psychosis and their families.
Centred around the Early Psychosis Declaration (EPD), this new book explores the Declaration’s five themes through contributions from mental health practitioners, service users and carers. It is designed to help those working with people experiencing psychosis at an early stage of illness to develop and implement effective early intervention skills, enabling them to examine and refine their practice.
Promoting Recovery in Early Psychosis: A Practice Manual by Paul French, Jo Smith, David Shiers, Mandy Reed and Mark Rayne (Eds.) is published by Wiley-Blackwell, RRP £29.99