PDF RESOURCES

‘Social Psychiatry and Social Policy for the 21st Century: New Concepts for New Needs- the ’Enabling Environments’ Initiative’. Mental Health and Social Inclusion 15, (2011): 17–23.
This paper describes the basis of the ‘Enabling Environments’ initiative, which had then recently been started at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and how it fitted to political and policy initiatives at the time (such as ‘The Big Society’ and community mental health reform, respectively)

‘Psychologically Informed Environments and the “Enabling Environments” Initiative’. Housing, Care and Support 15, (2012): 34–42.
This is an early publication by the founders of the Enabling Environments project, and how it led to a separate group setting up Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs) initiative, particularly for the homelessness sector .

‘The Quintessence of a Therapeutic Environment’. Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities 34, (2013): 6–15.
This is a very accessible theory paper which pulls together various psychological approaches into a sequence of emotional development which explains what we all need as we grow up, what happens when this goes wrong, and how therapeutic environments can help. It also forms the core of the ‘Relational Field’ in the subsequent model of human development..

Innovation in Action
At the end of the National Personality Disorder Development Programme in 2011, an on-depth qualitative analysis of all eleven community pilot projects was commissioned by the Department of Health and undertaken by Lisa Wilson and Rex Haigh. This is the report of that study – and it marks the first rigorous thinking about the nature of ‘Relational Practice’. It was not published by DH as the programme had ended - as a consequence of the international financial collapse at the time.

‘Psychologically Informed Planned Environments: A New Optimism for Criminal Justice Provision?’ In Transforming Environments and Rehabilitation, 179–97. Routledge, 2017.
This is a chapter which defines and describes the role of Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs) in the Ministry of Justice’s Offender Personality Disorder Programme. It presages the success and subsequent development of the programme and predicts a new and important element of prison reform. [Still to be tracked down!!]

‘Towards a Unified Model of Human Development’. MH Review Journal 24, no. 2 (2019): 124–32.
This paper was written in response to a request from the Ministry of Justice for a theoretical background to the successful and growing programme of relational practice, such as Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs) and Enabling Environments (EEs) and TCs in prisons and probation hostels

‘Personality Disorder: Breakdown in the Relational Field’.
In Working Effectively with Personality Disorder: A Paradigm Shift, pp35–52. Eds. Jo Ramsden, Sharon Prince & Julia Blazdell. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2020.

‘Relational Practice – making it happen’.
This is a work-in-progress paper that evolved as the theoretical aspects of relational practice started to feel too dry and academic – and that action was needed. It is still ‘work in progress’ – but might yet find its way into print!

‘The Development of a Relational Practice Movement’.
Forthcoming in Relationships and Mental Health: Relational experience in distress and recovery, chap 19. Eds. Zoë Boden-Stuart & Michael Larkin. Palgrave MacMillian

This is a chapter in an academic book which describes the route to seeing the relevance of relational practice from the viewpoint of the National PD Programme, and the need to turn it into action.