Geoff Shepherd's research while affiliated with King's College London and other places

... [27,28] Therefore, the structure of self-efficacy can be used as a theoretical basis in many health education programs by health professionals to create and promote health behaviors. [29] Numerous studies conducted in different places show the effect of self-efficacy along with increasing appropriate actions in students, [11,30,31] the aim of this study was to compare the two methods of motivational interviews and peers in female high school students in relation to puberty health in Shahroud in 2019. ...

... The delivery of supported accommodation which enables individual's recovery is influenced by a combination of service, contextual and relational factors [7]. There has been an increased focus on the effectiveness of supported accommodation [8] for people with serious mental illness and how it improves their quality of life (QoL). While contextual and service factors directly inform how supported accommodation is provided internationally, there are common features that are seen across all types of supported accommodation which relate to living arrangement (group or individual), level of staffing provided and type of support received [3,4,9]. ...

... Although recovery from SMI is an individual journey, professional care and guidance can support recovery outcomes [18,19]. A recovery-oriented approach focuses on the person, addresses stigmatisation, and facilitates social inclusion, and improves quality of life, citizenship, and participation in society [3,20]. It is a collaborative process between mental healthcare providers and service user which facilitates shared decision making and puts the service users' individual perspectives on recovery in the centre of the treatment [21,22]. ...

... Daniel Hayes 1,2 · Elizabeth M. Camacho 3 · Amy Ronaldson 1 · Katy Stepanian 1 · Merly McPhilbin 4 · Rachel A. Elliott 3 · Julie Repper 5 · Simon Bishop 6 · Vicky Stergiopoulos 7 · Lisa Brophy 8 · Kirsty Giles 9 · Sarah Trickett 10 · Stella Lawrence 10 · Gary Winship 11 · Sara Meddings 5 · Ioannis Bakolis 1 · Claire Henderson 1 · Mike Slade 4,12 1 Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK ...

... According to the Mental Health Declaration of Europe [5] and the NICE [6], the care of people with a psychiatric disability should be implemented mostly in community settings, should be recovery-oriented, flexible and involve all stakeholders. The provision of recovery-based practice and the promotion of people's human rights have been found to be positively associated with successful rehabilitation for people with severe and complex mental health problems in England [7,8]. Every person, despite their psychiatric and social impairments, deserves the opportunity to live the most satisfying life as possible, being integrated into the community, and should have the possibility to carry out significant activities [9,10], covering all adulthood roles at home, work, school or in other social areas [11]. ...

... There is evidence to justify recovery as an organising principle for mental health services worldwide, with reports of increased service user satisfaction, promising outcomes associated with emerging approaches such as Open Dialogue, Recovery Colleges and peer support, and cost-effectiveness (Slade, McDaid, Shepherd, Williams, & Repper, 2017). In light of these encouraging outcomes, Slade et al. (2017) argue that; 'The challenge for mental health services in each country is therefore not "whether to support recovery?", but "how?"' (p. ...

... The term recovery and the elements that contribute to its meaning are subject to a wide variety of definitions and interpretations. The two main connotations of recovery (Slade et al., 2017) refer, on the one hand, to clinical recovery, the traditional use in medicine, which considers mental illness biological and attempts to eliminate its symptoms to achieve recovery. On the other hand, personal recovery is a much more complex term (Woods et al., 2019) that has developed over recent decades and become one of the most important movements in mental health services today. ...

... Consistent with national [3][4][5]and international [6] mental health policy, recovery is defined as a personal process of living with or without the mental health concerns [7], which includes elements of connectedness, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment [8]. Mental health systems, internationally, have increasingly adopted a recovery-oriented approach to servicing [9][10][11]. ...

... From the perspective of the support workers interviewed in the present study, knowing who to contact is an important prerequisite to improved collaboration. Similarly, there is a risk that a decrease or termination of housing support as young adults gradually become more independent can lead to social isolation (Brolin et al., 2015;Sandhu et al., 2017), and reduced quality of life (Brolin, 2016). To counteract this, there is a need for complementary support tailored for specific contexts, like peer mentoring in education and work (Lindsay et al., 2016;Nguyen et al., 2020;Thompson et al., 2020). ...

... The care pathway is thus organised so that people move on from RFs providing higher support (Table 1 types SRP1 and SRP2) to those providing intermediate support (SRP3.1) and then to those with minimal support (SRP3.3). Of note, SRP3.2 is designed for residents with severe but stable mental health problems who are less likely to be able to progress to a more independent setting [2,30,31]. ...