Simon Bradstreet

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Dr Simon Bradstreet is a freelance consultant supporting research and learning in health and social care. He brings experience from a variety of roles and settings including evaluation consultancy, clinical trial management and digital health and care education. He was founding Director of the Scottish Recovery Network and retains a keen interest in the development and research of recovery, peer support and lived experience approaches in mental health.

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Group peer support boosts recovery in Danish community trial

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A Danish RCT of the 10-week PEER (Paths to Everyday Life) group programme found meaningful gains in personal recovery, functioning and quality of life for adults with mental health difficulties.

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Targeting distressing mental imagery in psychosis: a neglected but promising area for intervention

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What if therapy focused not on thoughts or voices, but on the vivid images that often accompany them? The iMAPS-2 trial tested a novel imagery-focused therapy for psychosis, showing it’s safe, acceptable, and ready for a full-scale trial.

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Inequity in action: why minoritised ethnic patients are more often rapidly tranquilised and what needs to change

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New evidence reveals that rapid tranquilisation is disproportionately used on minoritised ethnic patients in hospitals. Beyond the statistics, how do we create fair, compassionate, and equitable care?

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Recovery under close observation – three decades on

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Recovery has been a driver for policy and practice for thirty years, but this observational study leaves questions about how embedded it really is.

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Developing engaging online interventions for people with psychosis

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Simon Bradstreet explores a recent Australia study, which looks at individual- and intervention-level engagement with online interventions for people with psychosis, and discovers some of the things that can predict engagement with online psychosocial support.

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Hope for recovery: REFOCUS-PULSAR recovery training in specialist mental health care

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Simon Bradstreet welcomes the positive findings of the REFOCUS-PULSAR trial, which evaluated recovery-oriented practice training in specialist mental health care.

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Systematic review of recovery may leave more questions than answers

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Simon Bradstreet is left feeling frustrated by this systematic review of person-oriented recovery in people living with severe mental illness, which neglected to include a significant amount of relevant research.

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The long view: what has really changed with recovery?

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Simon Bradstreet explores a recent qualitative study looking at 20 years in the lives of a group of 20 people with psychosis in Ireland. The research provides evidence on the pros and cons of the adoption of recovery-based approaches from people who are uniquely placed to provide a long-term view.

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Recovery review highlights rhetoric-evidence gap: does that CHIME with you?

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Simon Bradsheet publishes his debut elf blog on a recent review of mental health recovery, which provides a useful wake-up call to recovery enthusiasts and researchers to more fully take account of a broader set of experiences when justifying the application of recovery values.

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