Together: Using personal experience to support others with similar difficulties
Together commission research to provide evidence for practitioners and policymaker to help them improve care for people experiencing mental distress.
Using personal experience to support others with similar difficulties: A review of the literature on peer support in mental health services
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Report • Mothertongue: Team Effort – Training Therapists to Work with Interpreters as a Collaborative Team
AMHP
Published: August 17, 2017
This paper offers a framework for training therapists/counsellors and interpreters to work together as a team. It considers the need for a collaborative relationship between counsellor and interpreter, consideration of dynamics in a triangular relationship and a clear delineation of responsibilities within the team. The paper can be found here.
Read moreReport • A helping hand: consultation with service users about peer support
AMHP
Published: August 17, 2017
Together commission research to provide evidence for practitioners and policymaker to help them improve care for people experiencing mental distress.
Read moreReport • Together: A common sense approach to working with defendants with mental health and well-being needs
AMHP
Published: August 17, 2017
Together’s guides aim to help those who come in contact professionally with people with mental health problems understand the issues and follow best practice. Together produce guides for everyone that demystify some of the issues around mental health.
Read moreReport • Mothertongue: Psychotherapy across Languages: beliefs, attitudes and practices of monolingual and multilingual therapists with their multilingual patients
AMHP
Published: August 17, 2017
The study investigates beliefs, attitudes and practices of 101 monolingual and multilingual therapists in their interactions with multilingual patients. Mothertongue adopted a mixed-method approach, using an on-line questionnaire with 27 closed questions which were analysed quantitatively and informed questions in interviews with one monolingual and two multilingual therapists. A principal component analysis yielded a four-factor…
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