NHS occupational therapist Mal Ure tells us how the service is working to improve patients’ media diets at the psychiatric ward where she works in Somerset
We know from research – and from talking to many of you in the Positive News community – that excessive media negativity can detrimentally affect people’s mental health.
Rydon Wards 1 and 2, at the Wellsprings Hospital Site in Taunton, provide assessment and treatment for adults who are experiencing acute mental health problems.
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Mal Ure, an occupational therapist on Rydon Wards, got in touch with us at Positive News to explain how a conversation among staff there about the media sparked a discussion about the publications they make available to patients.
“At the ward Have Your Say meeting, we were discussing the content of the newspapers that the ward supplies. It had been a bad few weeks: terrorism, the imminence of the third world war, dramas around Brexit and lots of other scare stories, envy…
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