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www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk is a website for carers of people with mental health problems, launched some years ago by the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the charity Rethink.
The site is to be revitalised and relaunched early in 2010 and its content will focus entirely on psychosis.
It will include information based on research findings from the Institute of Psychiatry and the expertise of health professionals working for SLaM, which provides the most extensive portfolio of mental health services in the UK.
As part of the process of rebuilding the site, we are talking to families and friends of people who have experienced symptoms of psychosis to find out what information will be most useful to them.
The plan is to include an ‘Ask the Pharmacist’, ‘Ask the Psychiatrist’, and an ‘Ask the Psychologist’ feature, and video interviews with clinicians and researchers talking about psychosis and mental health care, and interviews with carers, sharing experiences that could be relevant to others. The idea is to include information about symptoms, about diagnosis, treatment and care, recovery and relapse, stigma and discrimination, and what is known about potential causes.
We would like to hear from family members and friends who are willing to share their information needs and their experience of getting information to inform the redevelopment of the website. Please either post something here or email [email protected] if you would be willing to talk on the telephone.
The site is to be revitalised and relaunched early in 2010 and its content will focus entirely on psychosis.
It will include information based on research findings from the Institute of Psychiatry and the expertise of health professionals working for SLaM, which provides the most extensive portfolio of mental health services in the UK.
As part of the process of rebuilding the site, we are talking to families and friends of people who have experienced symptoms of psychosis to find out what information will be most useful to them.
The plan is to include an ‘Ask the Pharmacist’, ‘Ask the Psychiatrist’, and an ‘Ask the Psychologist’ feature, and video interviews with clinicians and researchers talking about psychosis and mental health care, and interviews with carers, sharing experiences that could be relevant to others. The idea is to include information about symptoms, about diagnosis, treatment and care, recovery and relapse, stigma and discrimination, and what is known about potential causes.
We would like to hear from family members and friends who are willing to share their information needs and their experience of getting information to inform the redevelopment of the website. Please either post something here or email [email protected] if you would be willing to talk on the telephone.