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How do mental health practitioners experience and understand resilience: The risk of death in mental healthcare
Simon Wharne DCPsych (Middx), BSc MSc Phd (Open), PGCHE (Fal)
Simon Wharne is the Deputy Course Leader for the DCPsych Programme, NSPC.
He can be contacted at [email protected].
The following found poem is constructed from excerpts taken from my participants' transcripts.
These are the excerpts that I presented in my findings.
Some of the verses are single sentences from one participant separated into lines.
Others are composites, put together from lines taken from different participants.
Poem
It became quite obvious, that he was very, very, suicidal.
He was desperate for some kind of help.
I started to feel quite panicky.
Gosh this is only a young man what a waste of life.
I felt like he was just some kind of thing being blown in the wind.
I couldn't trust the GP.
What the hell was he doing, letting this young man wander around. You know, whatever, he sort of just washed his hands of it.
So, it was left with me.
Having conversations with senior managers.
Feeling that things were being discounted and minimised.
Being told to discharge them, um, and it felt, very uncomfortable.
My supervisors, I like even remember,
Once they said, 'Oh come on, she's just an old lady trying to get some attention.'
I see how quickly people can lose their way in the world.
And then I think; 'Oh it could happen to one of my children.'
Oh my God, I'm not going to be able to deal with this
It's all going to be too much
What can I do, what shall I do?
What if they kill themselves?
If they're going to, there is nothing I can do about it.
It's a reality, you've got to accept that.
I recognise that feeling of meaninglessness as well.
It's not like it doesn't touch me sometimes.
I do sort of understand,
How powerless this person may feel.
It just felt like, shit, this can happen any time.
Just so vulnerable and so, like in touch with what's really important, in
Benefits of nature and gardening to improve mental health and address issues of social justice
Divine Charura, Professor of Counselling Psychology at the School of Education, Language and Psychology, York St John University
Research bodies
- York St John University in partnership with Hey Smile foundation and the Institute of Social Justice
Further information
In this film you will hear participants in York St John University's Allotment Project speak about the impact of the allotment on their mental health and wellbeing.
Thanks to HEY Smile Foundation for funding.
For further information visit www.yorksj.ac.uk/ISJ.
Supporting people to access nature for health and wellbeing
Divine Charura, Professor of Counselling Psychology at the School of Education, Language and Psychology, York St John University
Research bodies
- York St John University in partnership with Hey Smile foundation
- Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, Green Social prescribing
Further information
Thanks to funding from Natural England's Protected Site Strategies Research and Development Project, HEY Smile Foundation, in partnership with York St John University, has worked with five organisations in Hull to develop their skills in supporting people to access nature for health and wellbeing.
Two staff or volunteers from each of BAMEEN CIC, Bora Shabaa, Hull Afro Caribbean Association, Solidarity Hull CIC and Welcome House have received training in engaging with local greenspace, nature connectedness and developing the skills needed to become Mental Health Champions.
Here is their journey in becoming Nature Champions for their communities.
For more information contact [email protected].