Thorn: a new approach to mental health training.
The Thorn Initiative started life as an educational programme focusing on community psychiatric nurses. From the beginning its teaching has been multidisciplinary and at present its students come from a variety of backgrounds. This article describes the rationale for the initiative and describes its progress and impact on those who experience severe mental health problems and their families.
Institute of Psychiatry, London.
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