The College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section

A Strong Role for Occupational Therapists in Acute Mental Health
Rachel Christian-Edwards

A Student's Perspective on Acute Wards and Resource Centres in Mental Health
Rachel Barker

What Do They Think of Us? A Satisfaction Survey of Users of Occupational Therapy Services in an Acute Adult Inpatient Mental Health Unit
Laura Di Bona

News
Compiled by Sally Feaver

Creative Therapies: Is There a Place for Them in Modern and Evolving Occupational Therapy Practice?
Alison Meiklejohn

On the Role of the Occupational Therapist in the Engagement of Patients with Acute Psychotic Conditions in an In-Patient Setting
Nick Dutton

Chair's Report
Gabrielle Richards

AOTMH In Patient Study Day 13 th May 2004
Rachel Christian-Edwards

National Mental Health Services Assessment Towards Implementation of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003: Final Report March 2004
Alison Meiklejohn

Enabling Patients in Activities: The Role of the Activity Coordinator on In-Patient Mental Health Wards
Julie Barnhouse

The Importance of Routine in Acute Mental Health Settings
Sue Parkinson

Qualitative Data Collection: Doing Research Interviews
Sue Rugg

The Art Oasis: An Inclusive Arts Studio
Valerie Howells and Virginia Dickie

Integrated Teams on Acute Inpatient Wards Can Work
Rachel Christian-Edwards

Claire Craig - Meaningful Making: A Practice Guide for Occupational Therapy Staff
Estelle B Breines - Occupational Therapy: Activities for Practice and Teaching
Compiled by Jennifer Creek

How to Design an Experiment?
Katrina Bannigan

Celebrations at conference
Jane Clewes

Report on the 8 th Annual AOTMH Conference
Bill Craggs

Laughter Therapy
Alice Hortop

How to do Action Research
Katrina Bannigan

Help! I'm going on a Mental Health Placement!
Amy Spittle

Compiled by Sally Feaver

Moving on up: Movement as an intervention for Positive Mental Health
Gemma Dorer

How to turn a Rest Period into a Purposeful Relaxation Course
Rosemary Spencer

Chair's Report
Gabrielle Richards

Finding Meaning (or what is Qualitative Data?)
Katrina Bannigan

Joe Busuttil: Manger of Occupational Therapy Services in Malta
Interviewed by Jennifer Creek

The Delphi Technique
Thelma Sumsion

AOTMH Conference 2004
Compiled by Jane Clewes

Social Inclusion: The Professional Challenge
Julie Carr

Designing a Questionnaire
Sue Rugg and Julie Drew

Enabling and Empowering the Occupational Therapists
Cathy Ormston

Lucy Mueller White - Printmaking as Therapy
James McKillop - Opening shutters - opening minds
Compiled by Jennifer Creek

Report from the 28 th Annual COT Conference
Lesley Ann Waring

New member of the editorial board
Simon Hughes

AOTMH Study day on crisis resolution
Julie Carr

How cultural ideas help shape the conceptualisation of mental illness
Peter Richardson

Making sense of the lies, damn lies and statistics (or What is quantitative data?)
Katrina Bannigan

Conference 2004 update
Kee Hean Lim

AOTMH Study day on eating disorders
Laura Lock and Claire Weaving

Transitions: Some implications for occupational therapy
Lynn Freeman and Sheena Blair

My ideas for the mental health residential unit
David Sweetsur

Chair's report
Gabrielle Richards

Empowerment: some reflections from the other side of the fence
Jan Holloway

Elective placement in Christchurch, New Zealand
Jenny Griffiths

Compiled by
Sally Feaver

Progressive muscular relaxation - are we doing more harm than good?
Jane Clewes

A technique for gaining inspiration when doing creative writing
James Forster

How to do case study research?
Katrina Bannigan

Brian Adams - The pits and the pendulum;
Rosemary Caulton - The best of Occupation;
Everett, Donaghy and Feaver - Interventions for mental health
Compiled by Jennifer Creek