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This section contains examples of tools and practice that have enabled services to Empower the Individual as an element towards enabling recovery.

	Title: Spirituality Booklet 3 Published: 2008 Summary: Staffordshire University were commissioned to produce a ward based practical booklet for staff which gives basic steps and tips together with case studies. This guidance, with the imaginative use of exercises and case studies has been designed to encourage discussion, aid training and development, and specifically improve the experience of those who use acute services.
	Title: Spirituality Leaflet 3 Published: 2008 Summary: Facilitating Spirituality. All of us, at some stage in our lives, will experience acute mental distress. This leaflet aims to help you to start working with service users who want to explore their spirituality at this challenging time.
	Title: Spirituality Poster 3 Published: 2008 Summary: Spirituality poster summarising the key elements in facilitating spirituality.
	Title: Spirituality - evidence resource Published: July 2008 Summary: Spirituality, Religion and Mental Health: A Brief Evidence Resource. This document provides a brief evidence resource for staff engaged in meeting the spiritual and religious needs of people using mental health services. It has been developed from a literature review conducted for the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) as part of a wider resource project led by Prof. Peter Gilbert supported by Lesley Hayes and Rob Merchant at Staffordshire University.
	Title: Making recovery a reality - policy paper Published: March 2008 Summary: This policy paper presents some of the key ideas and examines their implications for the delivery of mental health services. It is not the last word on the topic of recovery; rather it aims to open up debate about how the recovery approach can be put into practice and what services need to do to make it happen.
	Title: Facilitating recovery and promoting social inclusion Published: May 2007 Summary: A Strategy for Practice and Implementation Plan. In depth document discussing the promotion of recovery and facilitation of inclusion which form the principles guiding the range of treatment and support provided to all service users.
	Title: Overview of recovery and social inclusion strategy and action plan Published: May 2007 Summary:Document explaining the Purpose of the strategy, What we mean by recovery, strategy for facilitating recovery and promoting inclusion, Implementing the strategy. Written by Rachel Perkins, Director of Quality Assurance and User/Carer Experience.
	Title: Recovery statement Published: January 2005 Summary: NIMHE Guiding Statement on Recovery. This paper aims to set out NIMHE’s emerging view of mental health recovery and includes the Guiding Principles for the delivery of recovery-oriented mental health services.
	Title: Looking with both eyes open Published: June 2005 Summary: Looking with both eyes open: fact and value in psychiatric diagnosis? This article argues the case for a proposal: that psychiatry should recognise, embrace and take seriously the role of values, alongside facts, in diagnosis.
	Title: Choice workbook Published: 2005 Summary: The following workbook is based on a standard toolkit which identifies 4 key areas of choice: Promoting and supporting life choices (including prevention and recovery), Access and engaging with services, Assessment and Choice of treatment pathways.
	Title: Mental health recovery Published: 2004 Summary: Emerging Best Practices in Mental Health Recovery. Originally produced by the Office of Consumer Affairs, Ohio Department of Mental Health who developed a Recovery Process Model and Emerging Best Practices to define and enhance the quality of mental health services.
	Title: Alan Rosen Stigma from developing countries Published: 2003 Summary: What developed countries can learn from developing countries in challenging psychiatric stigma.
	Title: False Beliefs in Mental Health Published: November 2002 Summary: False beliefs and mental health - Second annual Henry Hawkins Lecture.
	Title: SEDC Recovery presentation Summary: Definitions of recovery. Developing services that support people in their recovery. Title: Audio session Published: 2003 Summary: Recovery orientated practice by Patricia E. Deegan (PhD). Title: Mental health recovery Published: 2002 Summary: Presentation on Mental Health Recovery overview - Ohio Mental Health.
	Title: Journey to recovery Published: November 2001 Summary: The Government’s vision for mental health care. Title: Training pack - Recovery and all that jazz Published: 2005 Summary: A training pack on Recovery - A vision for adult mental health services.
	Title: Literature review Published: 2000 Summary: Review of recovery literature - A Synthesis of a Sample of Recovery Literature. Title: Rehab and recovery Summary: Suggested Readings: Rehabilitation and Recovery, mainly in the form of journal articles,short reports and web links. Title: Discover hope Summary: Discovering hope for recovery. This paper provides a review of the literature upon which hope for recovery is based, and explores the concept in the UK context.
	Title: Think before you plan Published: 1998 Summary: "Thinking about a few issues before you get started can help you achieve a better outcome, prevent problems, avoid unnecessary struggle, and save you from public embarrassment." - Michael W. Smull.
	Title: Spirituality space Summary: The aim of this project is to create a spiritual ‘SPACE’ in Holford House a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) based in Somerset. The project will build upon skills and knowledge gained from an existing spirituality project in 2002 that made recommendations from service users/survivors as to how mental health services have helped or hindered the spiritual and religious life of users and survivors. Title: Spiritual space 2 Summary: S - Spiritual use, P - Positive feelings, A - Activity to fulfil spiritual needs, C - Closeness to others and self, E - Environment. A project led and hosted by: Claire Healey, Occupational Therapist, Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust.
	Title: Recovery benchmark Summary: Benchmark for recovery orientated approaches.
	Title: 6 ways poster Summary: 6 ways to use a recovery approach poster. Title: Snakes poster Summary: Snakes and ladders poster - Promoting recovery.

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