Visitors can try apple pressing when they visit the farm shop and horticulture project run by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust on 25 and 26 October between 10am and 4pm.
With summer here staff and volunteers at Witham Court took patients on a virtual day trip to the beach.
Complete with a Punch and Judy, windbreaks, beach balls and buckets and spades, the ward transformed into a sunny beach.
Everyone wore a knotted hanky and played in the sand, had an ice-cream and joined in beach related songs.
And no trip to the beach is complete without a donkey and Bransby Donkey Sanctuary very kindly brought along 2 friendly donkeys for patients to say hello to and pet.
The Tree of Discovery along with other artwork created by service users at Guild Lodge was recently highly commended by UK art charity Koestler Trust. The charity specialises in an art awards scheme for offenders and secure mental health patients across the country and sees thousands of people submitting artwork every year. Artwork often forms part of the therapeutic activity to help service users explore and articulate their feelings and the Occupational Therapy service at Guild Lodge delivers regular sessions that can be attended on a drop in basis.
Ashdown psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Fountain Way Hospital in Salisbury has hosted a trial book club for service users which has really taken off.
Life on a PICU ward can sometimes be hectic, but the book club gives people a safe place to share their ideas, experiences and feelings through reading, as well as develop communication and social interaction skills.
Occupational therapist Adenike Adedipe said "I had been running some group reading sessions on the ward, but joining forces with our Wiltshire [NHS] librarian enabled us to take a more evidence based approach and develop the existing group."
AWP in Bloom is back by popular demand and this year's competition is really hotting up.
The link between gardening and good mental health is well known; and over the summer, our competing teams of service users, their families, carers and staff have been busy transforming their gardens into peaceful, therapeutic and glorious spaces in the hope of impressing the judges.
A weekly magazine aimed at helping people to live well with dementia is celebrating its third year of offering support.
Darren Harwood Weekly RAIDThe Weekly RAID features a variety reminiscent facts and activities, including ‘this week in history’, profiles of TV shows and famous people, multiple choice and guess who quizzes, ‘famous people born this week’ and weather forecasts for the week ahead.
Patients at Lime Walk House in Macclesfield have shared their work with friends and family as part of the unit's Recovery Festival.
The festival, run by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP), featured live music, a BBQ, cake sale and raffle. Patients also displayed arts and crafts and hosted carnival stalls in the Macclesfield sunshine.
Come and visit our first pop-up library at Severn Fields, Shrewsbury 19th July 11.00am-3.00pm. Join the library, borrow and return books, get help finding information and evidence, set up an Athens account, find out what the library can do for you and your team.
Our successful and innovative creative arts project called Fresh Art@ has won an award.
The therapeutic project, piloted in Bath last year, is designed to engage service users and their family and friends in developing creative art works to make our wards and buildings more vibrant and appealing.
The Trust received a highly commended award from Arts and Health Southwest for the Fresh Art@ project, masterminded by Nathaniel Burgess.
Old faded pictures and reproduction prints at Bath NHS House were replaced with fresh, original and stimulating works of art that promoted wellbeing, inspiration and conservation between service users and staff. The art work was so good it was even displayed at the Fringe Arts Festival in Bath.
A music project that helps people with mental health issues has held its seventh annual event, the Back Door Music Project.
The Musical Madness scheme uses music to develop confidence, self-esteem, skills and interests, which helps service users on their journey to discharge and helps to tackle the stigma around mental health.
Over the last six months, service users from Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Rehabilitation and High Support Directorate (RHSD), have written, recorded or selected music and poems to accompany a pop video which they filmed and edited.
The latest tool proven to help people express their feelings and emotions and ignite more meaningful conversations between patients and their health professionals is being introduced by Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust this Mental Health Awareness Week (16-22 May 2016).
The Doodle Pad was discovered by Kate Smith, 41 - an award winning children's illustrator, designer and workshop leader from Borrowash in Derbyshire, who used drawing and creativity to release all that was in her head when she was admitted into the Radbourne Unit, an acute mental health hospital, in Derby.
Inpatients at Lime Walk Rehabilitation Unit have been constructing and decorating furniture to be displayed at Macclesfield’s Barnaby Festival later this week.
Chairs, tables, birdhouses and mosaics have all been created to be displayed at the local event. The group have also created more than 30 signs that will be placed around the town to advertise each exhibition.
The work is part of the event’s ‘Yardens Project’, hosted by community group Reach Out and Recover (ROAR) to showcase the work of a variety of local people recovering from mental health trauma, addiction or personal issues.
The Media Crew work with their Occupational Therapists and a video producer to highlight issues that affect people in secure settings. As people with learning disabilities themselves, shaping the films is an important part of their therapy and several have been shortlisted for a number of national awards.
The library now stocks various reminiscence items available for staff to borrow: Two reminiscence boxes which include a range of items to stimulate all five senses. Two resource packs including ‘Seaside Holidays’ and ‘1960’s Childhood’ Chatterbox Cards with images and talking points to encourage conversations
To review the quantitative evidence concerning the effects of non-pharmacological interventions on reducing apathy in persons with dementia. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai