In today's podcast the Mental Health Foundation and British Journal of Psychiatry discuss the study “Personal well-being networks, social capital and severe mental illness: exploratory study”. This looks into people's well-being networks through trying to understand the narratives of individual's lives. The study aims to find out what is important to people when measuring 'wellness', in regards to both their physical and mental health. It looks to understand how individuals use their networks and connections to manage this. Looking at the people, meaningful activities and places and spaces that sit within their networks.

Research podcast host:

Victoria Zamperoni - Senior Research Officer (Quantitative), Mental Health Foundation

Main feature speakers:

Derek Tracey – Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. He is a visiting lecturerer at King's College London 'Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience' and the department of Psychiatry at University College London. He also holds an editorial board position at the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Vanessa Pinfold – Co-founder and Research Director of the McPin Foundation

Liam Davies - Ex service user who currently does voluntary research work for Oxleas NHS Trust.

Podcast notes:

- To read the paper: “Personal well-being networks, social capital and severe mental illness: exploratory study” find the abstract here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28982657 and full-text here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320234695_Personal_well-being_networks_social_capital_and_severe_mental_illness_Exploratory_study .

- To learn more about ongoing work using similar mapping approaches please visit the Community Navigator study: http://mcpin.org/community-navigator-study/ and the Connecting People Programme: http://mcpin.org/connecting-people-programme/

- To learn more about the work being done by the McPin foundation on Wellbeing Networks and Mental Health please visit: http://mcpin.org/networks-and-mental-health/ and http://www.wellbeing-network.org/about-us/

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