title: Climbing the walls: prison mental health and community engagement.
abstract: Until recently, treatment for mental health conditions has focused on medical and psychological therapy. The role and significance of social and community interventions and initiatives in fostering recovery, resilience and a sense of 'flourishing' is now being recognised. This paper seeks to explore how these principles, which are usually community-based, can be successfully applied within a prison setting, and how such interventions may have a positive effect on the mental health of prisoners through successfully engaging them with the communities they are set to return to after release while still in custody.
authors.affiliation: Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust, HMP Manchester.
authors.forename: Jude
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Caie
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D011330:Prisons; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration