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Exhibition of veterans’ art at US Embassy organised by Churchill Fellow
News | 29 Oct 2019 |An exhibition of paintings by UK veterans has been organised by Churchill Fellow Janice Lobban (2016) at the request of US Second Lady Karen Pence.
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Improving dementia services for people who are LGBT
Allison O'Kelly, a nurse from Callington, Cornwall, travelled to Australia to investigate support for LGBT people with dementia.
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News: Social Worker of the Year Award nomination for Churchill Fellow
News | 18 Oct 2019 |Veterans campaigner Tony Wright (2011) has been nominated in the Lifetime Achievement category at the Social Worker of the Year Awards 2019.
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Blog: How digital art therapy can help people with terminal illness
My Churchill Fellowship in 2015 explored how digital technology is helping hospices deliver art therapy to enhance, extend or limit the care of people with a terminal...
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Blog: How the arts can help children's mental health
Children's mental health services are struggling to cope. The arts offer some alternative solutions.
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Blog: Protecting students’ mental health
Going to university can be fun and fulfilling, but it can also be a tough learning curve. Seeing friends and peers experience challenges, when I was a student, was what...
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Blog: Helping prisoners with dementia
Dementia among prisoners in our prison system is a growing but little-studied problem.
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Becoming a more culturally, adversity, and trauma-informed infused, and responsive organisation
Karen Treisman, a clinical psychologist from Kings Cross, travelled to the USA to research approaches to integrating trauma-informed principles at an organisational level.
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Exploring the different models of community based care for those with complex health needs
Luke Skelton, a psychiatry doctor from Peckham, travelled to Australia and the USA to explore the impact of the Health Care Homes model on patients' mental health.
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Beyond mindfulness: Best practice for Veterans with PTSD
Charlie Morley, an author and mindfulness teacher from Bermondsey, travelled to Canada and the USA to study mindulness-based treatments for veterans with PTSD.
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Blog: Bringing people together after loss
After my father died of cancer in 2008, my family and I struggled to find the support we needed. The help there was, if any was available at all, seemed to be time...
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Mental Health Fellows' Story Collection
Read more about some of our Fellows' achievements in this area - from tackling parental mental illness, PTSD, street gangs, suicide prevention, and supported...
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Supporting young people with Borderline Personality Disorder: Sarah Maxwell’s Story
Story | By Sarah Maxwell | How to work with teenagers presenting with emerging Borderline Personality Disorder: Lessons from HYPE | 2016Psychiatrist Sarah Maxwell travelled to Australia in 2016 to research treatment for young people with Borderline Personality Disorder. Her findings have influenced the...
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Mental health and digital technology
Rebecca Cotton, from Dulwich, and Director of Mental Health Policy for the NHS Confederation, travelled to Australia and the USA to research approaches to using digital...
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Blog: Self-injury and mindfulness
Today is self-injury awareness day, and I find myself reflecting on the fact that almost one in four teenage girls in the UK are known to hurt themselves as a way of...
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Decoding Digital Solutions for Workplace Mental Healthcare
Marcus Gardiner, a Software Developer and Management Consultant from Bath, travelled to the USA to explore the use of digital technology to support good mental health in...
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Blog: LGBTQ inequality in mental health
Discrimination and inequality in health and social care settings have been revealed in a recent government survey of LGBTQ people.
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Blog: How sunlight strengthens our minds and bodies
Humans evolved on a revolving planet with daily extremes of light and darkness. Our ancestors revered the sun as both a creator and destroyer of life, marking the...
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Overcoming battlefield trauma: Garreth Murrell’s story
Ex-soldier Garreth Murrell travelled to the USA and Canada in 2012 to investigate the use of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) to treat veterans with Post-traumatic...
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Shaping cancer bereavement care: developing a framework for action
Dr Erin Hope Thompson, from Kilburn, and the Founder and Director of The Loss Foundation, travelled to the USA to research best practice in bereavement support.
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Blog: Supporting refugee children’s mental health
Over 2,000 unaccompanied children claimed asylum in the UK in the past year, and a further 2,817 children arrived in the UK directly from conflict regions as part of...
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LGBTQ mental health: exploring advocacy approaches to health inequalities
Jacqui Jobson, from Newcastle, and Director of Advocacy Centre North, travelled to Australia and Canada to explore advocacy approaches addressing mental health among...
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Real-time functional imaging and neurofeedback for tailored psychiatric treatment
Cassandra Gould is a Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine from Brighton. She will be travelling to the Netherlands to investigate real-time functional imaging and...
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Blog: Mental health in the police
My family and I will never forget this year, as I was greatly honoured to be mentioned in the New Year’s Honours List, attending Buckingham Palace in June to be invested...
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Blog: Peer based support for socially marginalised pregnant women
In the UK today, some 7,000 women each year give birth without the emotional support of a birth partner. The effects of this can be profound and long-lasting, with...
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Video: "It's good that somebody believes in me"
Watch clinical psychologist Erica McInnis talk about her Churchill Fellowship researching African psychology and its benefits for mental health and wellbeing, and the...
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Arts in healthcare pioneers: informing and supporting the Greater Manchester devolution
Dr Kat Taylor, a Clinical Psychologist and researcher from Lancaster, travelled to Finland and the USA to study initiatives embedding the arts in health care.
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Music & mental health: Eva Okwonga's Story
Eva Okwonga travelled to the USA in 2016 to explore peer-led music projects for people with mental health issues.
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Blog: Modern solutions to modern stress
Today marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week, with stress as this year’s theme. Stress has become part of the accepted tapestry of modern life: how many times...
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Assistance dogs and PTSD: Garry Botterill’s Story
Garry Botterill travelled to the Netherlands and the USA to investigate the use of specially trained assistance dogs to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder...
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Report: Art Thou Well? Global insights into how creativity can benefit mental health
The arts can be used to save money in health and social care services, according to a new report by clinical psychologist Dr Kat Taylor, who travelled to Finland and the...
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Transforming Trauma: Moral Injury and Arts with Military Veterans, Families and Communities
Alison O'Connor, from Penarth, is Co-Director of Cardiff arts organisation Re-Live. Alison travelled to Bosnia & Herzegovina and America to investigate the...
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Churchill’s Babies
Event | 15 Jun 2018 | Greater London | Public eventA one-day conference offering global perspectives on best practice in infant mental health, focused on the complex needs of vulnerable parents and their children.
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Horticultural Community Restitution Work Programmes for Mentally Disordered Offenders
Richard Eltringham, an Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner from Leicestershire, has recently returned from a four week research trip to the USA to investigate...
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Witnessing Good Practice in the Field of Suicide Bereavement
Sharon McDonnell has specialised in suicide bereavement research for 16 years at the Centre for Mental Health and Safety, University of Manchester, in the UK. Sharon...
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Soldier of Hope: Lessons from the international community in recovery and growth from battlefield trauma and mental health
Simon Edwards, from Bath, is the Founder and Trustee of the humanitarian response charity Serve On. Simon travelled to Australia and the USA to investigate the root...
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Blog: Catching up with our cousins. A catalyst for innovation
In 2015 I was given the life-changing opportunity of a Churchill Fellowship, aware that with this opportunity came a responsibility to use my research to benefit society...
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Mindfulness interventions for children and young people in school and family settings
Dan Trevor, a Psychotherapist from Conwy, Wales, travelled to the USA to investigate mindfulness interventions for children and young people.
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Family Involvement in Collaborative Adult Community Mental Health Treatment
David Humphreys, a psychotherapist from Bishops Stortford, travelled to Canada and the USA to explore ways of improving family member involvement in community mental...
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Improving the management of sleep problems
Dr. Ajay Thapar, a General Practitioner from Cardiff, travelled to the USA to study innovative approaches to treating people with distressing sleep problems.
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Art for all: exploring new platforms for artists from diverse backgrounds
This Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship report examines the original ideas and strategies that I identified at six organisations in the U.S and Canada that offer...
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Horticultural community restitution work programmes for Mentally Disordered Offenders
Richard Eltringham, an Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner from Thurmaston, Leicestershire, travelled to the USA to investigate horticulture based community...
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Dawn Edge’s Story
Story | By Dawn Edge | Exploring mental health and resilience in African Caribbean communities | 2014Dr Dawn Edge travelled to Canada and the USA in 2014, and Jamaica and Barbados in 2015, to explore different approaches to supporting African-Caribbean people with...
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The Story Project: supporting young peoples' mental health through literacy
Olivia Richards, an English teacher and co-founder of The Story Project, travelled to the USA and Canada to explore supporting young peoples' mental health through...
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Learning from best practice in Australia: Developing perinatal mental health services
Dr Jill Domoney, a clinical psychologist from London, travelled to Australia to research ways of integrating research, practice and service development in perinatal...
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The Good Grief Project: A journey to the USA and Mexico in search of another way of grieving
James Edmonds, a film and TV editor from Stroud, travelled to the USA to meet with bereaved parents and the charities that help them through their loss.
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Dementia and Sensory Challenges
Agnes Houston, from Coatbridge, travelled to Canada and Ireland to meet with people who, like her, have a diagnosis of dementia. She will be collecting their lived...
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Supporting children and families through parental substance misuse treatment journeys
Louis Boyd is Operations Manager for South Westminster Drug & Alcohol Service. He travelled to Canada and the USA to investigate supporting children and families...
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Supported Decision-Making: Learning from Australia
Janet Killeen, from Edinburgh, was the Director of Public Policy for Alzheimer Scotland before her retirement in 2012. She travelled to Australia to research best...
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How to work with teenagers presenting with emerging Borderline Personality Disorder: Lessons from HYPE
Dr Sarah Maxwell is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist from Norfolk working for the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust. Sarah travelled to Australia to...
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Rebuild, reconnect and rediscover through mental health recovery
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An exploration of comprehensive cancer survivorship care models
There is no formalised method of follow up care for patients who have completed treatment for haematological cancers in the UK. Australia and Canada have well...
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A study to develop alternatives to women's imprisonment in Wales
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Understanding best practice: the emergency response to mental health crisis
Alex Crisp, a police constable from Leicester, will be travelling to North America and Australia to research best practice in the emergency response to mental health...
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PTSD: the power of dogs and the positivity of helping comrades
This report looks at how specially trained assistance dogs can mitigate the symptoms of PTSD in veterans from the armed forces and emergency services. It will look at...
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Veterans' Community Mental Health Care: learning from our Canadian allies
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Using African example to enable UK girls to refuse FGM