.... Future longitudinal, multi-state, and multi-source studies are needed. Practical implications Fire service organizations should adopt emotional intelligence training, 360-degree feedback, confidential reporting, and trauma-informed mental health support. These suggestions are directly based...

... readily available. The purpose of this paper is to describe and provide a rationale for the Therapy Capability Framework (TCF) which aims to enhance access to, and quality of, evidence-informed practice for consumers of mental health services (MHSs) by strengthening workforce capabilities and leadership...

...Hugh Norriss The author outlines the view of mental health in New Zealand, and presents an overview of factors that will influence this in the future, arguing that leadership is required to further a nation's positive mental health. Recent analysis is then presented on the concept of ‘flourishing...

...Helen Lockett Mental health conditions are common in the working population. Every organisation should have a comprehensive strategy that not only promotes mental health and provides effective return to work support but that proactively responds to mental ill health in the workplace at an early...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Vocation Spirituality Workplace Mental health Burnout Janki Foundation Values Health care Peer-reviewed paper Vocation, vocation, vocation: spirituality for professionals in mental health services Madeleine Parkes Research Assistant, Spirituality...

... challenge of leadership. The creation of the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) was designed to bring together the local, regional and the national in a form that would see policy and practice mutually developed and nurtured at all levels of governance. © Emerald Group Publishing...

...Sarah Carr The author provides a mental health service user's perspective on leadership, arguing that users should be empowered by services to lead their own lives. In order to do so, leaders in services should have human and emotional skills because their decisions have human and emotional...

... mental health professionals, coupled with the limited numbers of indigenous mental health professionals. The Wharerata Declaration is a proposed framework to improve indigenous mental health through state‐supported development of indigenous mental health leaders, based on a new indigenous leadership...

...Mary O'Hagan The leadership of people with lived experience of mental health problems is underdeveloped, when it comes to leadership in one's own recovery, at the service level, and at the systemic level. Unlike the mental health system, the user/survivor movement has a values base of empowerment...

... of questions that leaders can apply to their own settings in order to explore the issues raised in this article. Volunteering projects Community Entrepreneurs Multiple perspectives Mental health Peer-reviewed paper Outside-in service design Peter Bates Head of Mental Health and Community Inclusion...

...Rob Greig; Steve Onyett © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Learning disabilities Mental health National director Government Valuing People Interview Rob Greig Chief Executive of the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) and former National Director for Learning...

...Helen Lockett There is an established international evidence base on supported employment for people with severe and enduring mental health problems, and now a growing evidence base on how to successfully implement this into practice. The process involves substantial organisational development...

...Hári Sewell The national policy Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health (Department of Health, 2005) is in its fifth and final year. Evidence suggests that the changes that were hoped for have not been achieved. This has raised the question as to whether the objectives were unattainable...

...Janet Peters; Sally Pitts‐Brown The Executive Leadership and Management Programme (ELMP) and the advanced programme (AELMP) were founded in New Zealand in 2004. The Blueprint Centre for Learning was contracted by the then Mental Health Workforce Development Programme to develop and deliver...

...Kathy Langlois Many First Nations and Inuit communities in Canada confront historical, cultural, socioeconomic and geographic barriers that have a profound impact on mental wellness. In 2006, a Senate Committee reported on mental health, mental illness and addiction. A key result has been...

...Susan Benbow The National Institute of Mental Health England (NIMHE) appointed a Fellow in Ageing and Mental Health to take on a national leadership role for a three‐year period from 2003 to 2006. Starting from a position where the NIMHE website could only address older adult issues under social...

... health Leadership Health and social care © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 perspectives on leadership Daring to Dream: Learning the Lessons of Leadership for Service Improvement in Mental Health Services Steve Onyett Senior Development Consultant, Care Services Improvement Partnership...

...Hári Sewell; Peter Gilbert Two learning sets have been established for senior managers who are responsible for social care in what are traditionally health service organisations. For the future health and welfare of wider society and the economy it is vital that mental health remains part...