Publications
Other Papers
Overview papers
Insight, survivor research and Mad Studies
Slade M, Sweeney A (2020) Rethinking the concept of insight, World Psychiatry, 19, 389-390. Available here
Recovery in England
Perkins R, Slade M (2012) Recovery in England: Transforming statutory services?, International Review of Psychiatry, 24, 29-39.
The link between recovery and wellbeing research
Slade M (2010) Mental illness and well-being: the central importance of positive psychology and recovery approaches, BMC Health Services Research, 10, 26. Available here
See also the WELLFOCUS Study for more on wellbeing and recovery.
Empirical evidence about recovery
Slade M (2012) Recovery research: the empirical evidence from England, World Psychiatry, 11, 162-163. Available here
Introduction to an invited issue on recovery internationally
Slade M, Adams N, O’Hagan M (2012) Recovery: past progress and future challenges, International Review of Psychiatry, 24, 1-4. Available here
Overview of evidence about recovery-supporting interventions and mis-uses of recovery
Slade M, Amering M, Farkas M, Hamilton B, O’Hagan M, Panther G, Perkins R, Shepherd G, Tse S, Whitley R (2014) Uses and abuses of recovery: implementing recovery-oriented practices in mental health systems, World Psychiatry, 13, 12-20. Available here
Strengths-based and resource-oriented approaches in psychiatry
Priebe S, Omer S, Giacco D, Slade M (2014) Resource-oriented therapeutic models in psychiatry – A conceptual review, British Journal of Psychiatry, 204, 256-261. Available here
More on strengths-based approaches
Tse S, Tsoi E, Hamilton B, O’Hagan M, Shepherd G, Slade M, Whitley R, Petrakis M (2016) Uses of Strength-Based Interventions for people with serious mental illness: A critical review, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 62, 281-291. Available here
Qualitative investigation of post-traumatic growth
Slade M, Rennick-Egglestone S, Blackie L, Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Franklin D, Hui A, Thornicroft G, McGranahan R, Pollock K, Priebe S, Ramsay A, Roe D, Deakin E (2019) Post-traumatic growth in mental health recovery: qualitative study of narratives, BMJ Open, 9, e029342. Available here
Empirical evidence about recovery rates and influences
Slade M, Longden E (2015) Empirical evidence about mental health and recovery, BMC Psychiatry, 15, 285. Available here
Also published as a downloadable booklet
Recovery and post-traumatic growth in psychosis
Slade M, Blackie L, Longden E (2019) Personal growth in psychosis, World Psychiatry, 18, 29-30. Available here
Disclosure and employment
Experience of disclosing a mental health problem in an employment context
Brohan E, Evans-Lacko S, Henderson C, Murray J, Slade M, Thornicroft G (2014) Disclosure of a mental health problem in the employment context: Qualitative study of beliefs and experiences, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 23, 289-300. Available here
Development of a decision aid about disclosure in an employment context
Brohan E, Henderson C, Slade M, Thornicroft G (2014) Development and preliminary evaluation of a decision aid for disclosure of mental illness to employers, Patient Education and Counseling, 94, 238-242. Available here
Evaluation of the decision aid
Henderson C, Brohan E, Clement S, Williams P, Lassman F, Schauman F, Dockery L, Farrelly S, Murray J, Murphy C, Slade M, Thornicroft G (2013) Randomised controlled trial of a decision aid to assist decisions on disclosure of mental health status to an employer: feasibility and outcomes, British Journal of Psychiatry, 203, 350-357.
Measuring recovery
Also see INSPIRE in Measures
The importance of personal recovery and recovery support (assessed using INSPIRE)
Skar-Fröding R, Clausen H, Benth J, Ruud T, Slade M, Heiervang K The importance of personal recovery and perceived recovery support amongst service users with psychosis, Psychiatric Services, in press.
Challenges in measuring recovery
Slade M (2010) Measuring recovery in mental health services, Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 47, 206-212.
Evaluating the STORI measure
Weeks G, Slade M, Hayward M (2011) A UK validation of the Stages of Recovery Instrument, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 57, 446-454. Available here
Measuring pro-recovery practice from care plans
Gilburt H, Slade M, Bird V, Oduola S, Craig T (2013) Promoting recovery-oriented practice in mental health services: quasi-experimental mixed methods study, BMC Psychiatry, 13, 167. Available here
Measuring discrimination
Brohan E, Clement S, Rose D, Sartorius N, Slade M, Thornicroft G (2013) Development and psychometric evaluation of the Discrimination and Stigma Scale (DISC), Psychiatry Research, 208, 33-40. Available here
Measuring distress
Andrade M, Slade M, Bandeira M, Evans-Lacko S, Komaroff J, Martin D, Mari J, Andreoli S (2016) Subjective distress in a representative sample of outpatients with psychotic disorders, Journal of Affective Disorders, 189, 220-223. Available here
Other publications from the Recovery Research Team
The Personal Recovery Framework
Slade M (2009) The contribution of mental health services to recovery, Journal of Mental Health, 18, 367-371. Available here
Evaluating joint crisis plans in people with borderline personality disorder
Borschmann R, Barrett B, Hellier J, Byford S, Henderson C, Rose D, Slade M, Sutherby K, Szmukler G, Thornicroft G, Hogg J, Moran P (2013) Joint crisis plans for people with borderline personality disorder: feasibility and outcomes in a randomised controlled trial, British Journal of Psychiatry, 202, 357-364.
The need for mainstream solutions to most difficulties experienced by people with mental health problems
Slade M (2012) Everyday solutions for everyday problems: how mental health systems can support recovery, Psychiatric Services, 63, 702-704. Available here
Empirical evaluation of some common recovery ‘sayings’
Slade M, Williams J, Bird V, Leamy M, Le Boutillier C (2012) Recovery grows up, Journal of Mental Health, 21, 99-104.
Recovery in older adults
Daley S, Newton D, Slade M, Murray J, Banerjee S (2013) Development of a framework for recovery in older people with mental disorder, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28, 522-529. Available here
Reducing stigma
Clement S, Lassman F, Barley E, Evans-Lacko S, Williams P, Yamaguchi S, Slade M, Rüsch N, Thornicroft G (2013) Mass media interventions for reducing mental health-related stigma (Review), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 7, CD009453. Available here
Protocol for a study reducing decisional conflict in young people
Rowe S, French R, Henderson C, Weatherall D, Ougrin D, Slade M, Moran P (2016) Decisional support for young people who self-harm: Protocol for a feasibility trial, BMJ Open, 6, e012161. Available here
And the findings from the trial
Rowe S, Patel K, French RS, Henderson C, Ougrin D, Slade M, Moran P (2018) Web-based decision-aid to assist help-seeking choices for young people who self-harm: Outcomes from a randomised controlled feasibility trial, JMIR Mental Health, 5, e10.
Global survey of the mental health ‘treatment gap’
Copeland J, Thornicroft G, Bird V, Bowis J, Slade M (2014) Global priorities of civil society for mental health services: findings from a 53 country survey, World Psychiatry, 13, 198-200. Available here
Shared decision making
Slade M (2017) Implementing shared decision making in routine mental health care, World Psychiatry, 16, 146-153. Available here
Systematic review of help-seeking in adolescence
Rowe S, French R, Henderson P, Ougrin D, Slade M, Moran P (2014) Help-seeking behaviour and adolescent self-harm: a systematic review, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48, 1083-1095. Available here
Supporting recovery after a hospital stay
Birken M, Henderson C, Slade M (2018) The development of an occupational therapy intervention for adults with a diagnosed psychotic disorder following discharge from hospital, Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4, 81. Available here
Recovery and participatory arts
Stickley T, Wright N, Slade M (2018) The art of recovery: outcomes from participatory arts activities for people using mental health services, Journal of Mental Health, 27, 367-373. Available here
Participatory arts in rural communities
Hui A, Stickley T, Stubley M, Baker F Project eARTh: Participatory arts and mental health recovery, a qualitative study, Perspectives in Public Health. Available here
Peer support in an eating club
Vogel JS, Swart M, Slade M, Bruins J, van der Gaag M, Castelein S (2019) Peer support and skills training through an eating club for people with psychotic disorders: A feasibility study, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 64, 80-86. Available here
Need for information
Andrade M, Slade M, Bandeira M, Evans-Lacko S, Martin D, Andreoli S (2018) Need for information in a representative sample of outpatients with schizophrenia disorders, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 64, 476-481. Available here
Protocol for review of recovery in children and young people
Ballesteros-Urpi A, Slade M, Manley D, Pardo-Hernandez H (2019) Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health among children and adolescents: A systematic review and narrative synthesis protocol, BMJ Open, 9, e029300. Available here
Recovery training in older adult mental health services
Daley S, Slade M, Dewey M, Banerjee S (2020) A feasibility study of the effects of implementing a staff-level recovery-oriented training intervention older people’s mental health services, Aging and Mental Health. Available here
Recovery in borderline personality disorder
Ng F, Townsend M, Miller C Jewell M, Grenyer B (2019) The lived experience of recovery in borderline personality disorder: A qualitative study, Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 6, 10. Available here
Organisational structures and health inequalities of marginalised communities
Hui A, Latif A, Hinsliff-Smith K, Chen T (2020) Exploring the impacts of organisational structure, policy and practice on the health inequalities of marginalised communities: illustrative cases from the UK healthcare system, Health Policy. Available here
Poetry and psychosis experiences
Pearson M, Rennick-Egglestone S, Winship G (2020) How can poetry support the understanding of psychotic experiences? – A conceptual review, Journal of Recovery in Mental Health, 3, 39-53. Available here
Recovery and modern slavery: study protocol
Wright N, Hadziosmanovic E, Dang M, Bales K, Brookes C, Jordan M, Slade M, Lived Experience Research Advisory Board (2020) Mental Health Recovery for Survivors of Modern Slavery: Grounded Theory Study Protocol, BMJ Open, 10, e038583. Available here