NSFT research adult seminar

In this hugely informative seminar looking at adult mental health research at NSFT we will hear from three speakers all covering ideas around how we can improve services by listening to people with lived experience and co-producing effective interventions.

The 8 D Wellness Model: Personal and Co-Produced Possibilities

Professor Margaret Swarbrick, Associate Director of the Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies at Rutgers University. Professor Swarbrick developed a strength based 8-dimensional wellness model to promote recovery from mental health and substance use. This session will outline how the evolution of the wellness model (8D) has led to the co-creation of tools, programs and research, addressing health disparities. We will consider how the wellness 8 D model can be used as a lens to frame co-produced self-help programs, self-management tools and research that consider the social determinants of health.

A mixed qualitative methods study of The Safety Planning Course: A Realist Evaluation

Amanda Green, NSFT Peer Support Lead was involved in the setting up of the Recovery College at NSFT. Amanda will be talking about her study of The Safety Planning Course: A realist evaluation. This looks at what factors improve safety for people who are at high risk of death from suicide and self-harming behaviours – a person-centred Safety Planning instead of traditional risk management approaches. Research into safety planning is limited in general and specifically lived experience research is lacking. This study aims to address this gap.

Amanda will discuss the current literature about Safety Planning, explain what her study design is and why she has chosen it, describe how her lived experience informs her research and lastly, explain how people can get involved.

Putting our MINDS together to improve mental health ward discharge planning

Sarah Rae is the study co-lead on MINDS (see more info below) she will be talking about the challenges and benefits of co-production.

Dr Corinna Hackmann, NSFT Research Development Lead, Adult Services will be talking about the new NSFT project MINDS which is a co-produced research study, co-led by expert by experience Sarah Rae and consultant psychiatrist Jon Wilson, looking to improve the experience of being discharged from a mental health ward. This project will use a new approach, looking to understand all the steps in a process from the point of view of the people involved. Including why discharges are often not well planned, what people need to stay well after leaving hospital and how a co-designed discharge planning approach could address this.