Evaluation of the benefits and drawbacks of receiving clinical supervision online

This research is being conducted by an international team under my leadership, comprising I.T. specialists and clinicians from a range of disciplines in the field of professional mental health care. Profiles of members of the research team can be found here. And a sketch of the research itself is at http://www.online-supervision.net/research/research.asp.

Evaluation of Pathfinder NHS Trust's User Employment Project

During 1999 I was involved in a one-year research project funded by the NHS Executive, entitled Evaluation of Pathfinder NHS Trust's User Employment Project. This assessed the impact of the UEP on:

• The lives of supported employees who have been helped back into employment by the project;
• The quality of services offered by those teams where user-employees have worked;
• Staff attitudes toward those with mental health problems before and after working with user-employees; and
• The public purse, taking into account the cost savings of reduced levels of benefit expenditure, reduced use of NHS resources and increased tax revenues, weighed against the running costs of the project.

The project recruited a researcher under my day-to-day management, and data collected produced some interesting results. Publications include those referenced wihtin the publications list on this site as Davidson & Perkins (1997) and Davidson (1997c; 1998f). An online power point presentation will soon be available detailing some of the findings. The project and research into its effectiveness won me the