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The Library – PIELink
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News & Events. 8220;Housing First” & PIEs in the UK. System change & brokers. The Virtual Drop In. Housing First and PIEs in the US. Housing First a new social psychiatry? For brief advice and guidance on how to use the Library, watch the " The very very short introduction. Which introduces the library and its features, and how to get the best out of using them. For more detailed advice and guidance on how to use the search features, should you need it, simply click on the tabs across this page. Try, for...
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Commissioning – PIELink
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News & Events. 8220;Housing First” & PIEs in the UK. System change & brokers. The Virtual Drop In. Housing First and PIEs in the US. Housing First a new social psychiatry? If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.". The concept of a Psychologically Informed Environment, and the principles behind it,. Raise some interesting issues and challenges for commissioners, as well as for providers of services. Five Top Tips for Commissioners,. We also have an article, ". Then c...
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Challenges – PIELink
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News & Events. 8220;Housing First” & PIEs in the UK. System change & brokers. The Virtual Drop In. Housing First and PIEs in the US. Housing First a new social psychiatry? The concept of a psychologically informed environment, and the adoption of a "psychological model", comes with a clear recognition that any real embedding of ideas in a service only comes when staff and service users are able to question how the service runs, and make changes. Does it take a psychologist to make a PIE? Journal special ...
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“Housing First” & PIEs in the UK – PIELink
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News & Events. 8220;Housing First” & PIEs in the UK. System change & brokers. The Virtual Drop In. Housing First and PIEs in the US. Housing First a new social psychiatry? Housing First and PIEs in the UK. In contrast to the US, where HF has been seen as incompatible with, even antagonistic towards, ‘transitional housing’, Housing First England, for example, is taking a different stance, and sees Housing First as one of a range of positive approaches one tool in the tool kit for meeting complex needs.
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News & Events. 8220;Housing First” & PIEs in the UK. System change & brokers. The Virtual Drop In. Housing First and PIEs in the US. Housing First a new social psychiatry? It's become standard practice on the internet to have a page of Frequently Asked Questions. There, the website managers suggest your questions, and then helpfully answer them. Not so here. Here we raise the questions - and you have to answer them. What’s the Big Idea? There is a whole other page on this site. Here you will find:. For a...
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“Greencare” – PIELink
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News & Events. 8220;Housing First” & PIEs in the UK. System change & brokers. The Virtual Drop In. Housing First and PIEs in the US. Housing First a new social psychiatry? Greencare is an umbrella term which is now being used to cover both traditional social and horticultural therapy, and newer approaches such as animal-assisted therapy, ecotherapy, care farms, forest schools, and the "green gym". Both greencare and PIEs have also struggled in the past to provide a conveniently simple evidence base for e...
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Rough sleeping – PIELink
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News & Events. 8220;Housing First” & PIEs in the UK. System change & brokers. The Virtual Drop In. Housing First and PIEs in the US. Housing First a new social psychiatry? Rough sleepers and PIEs. On the face of it, a rough sleepers' situation would not be thought of as a psychologically informed environment. How then do rough sleeper outreach initiatives and PIEs go together? So these are all environments, in the sense we usually use the term, that can be more psychologically informed. But is that all?
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Domestic violence – PIELink
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News & Events. 8220;Housing First” & PIEs in the UK. System change & brokers. The Virtual Drop In. Housing First and PIEs in the US. Housing First a new social psychiatry? Domestic (or "intimate partner") violence. What we do have here are two radically differing views. GDASS - target hardening, a strengths model, and a dispersed peer-support community. In a presentation on the development of Gloucester Domestic Abuse Support Service, Sally Morrisey. At the time of this presentation, the remodelled servi...
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Voices – PIELink
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News & Events. 8220;Housing First” & PIEs in the UK. System change & brokers. The Virtual Drop In. Housing First and PIEs in the US. Housing First a new social psychiatry? In the 'Voices' section, individuals talk about their own experience, of homelessness, of services, or of doing training or research. All voices are equal here. If you have a story to tell, personal opinion, views you would like to share, email us with your idea, and we will take it from there. How hard can it be? Here he looks at the ...