December’s monthly essay was written as a blog for HomelessLink; and has now been released by them, in advance publicity for the Research and Evidence national conference we are running with them, and the Mental Health Foundation, on 31st January 2017.
Keyword Groups: PIEs Practice
rules of engagement
Carefully thought-through ‘rules of engagement’, taking into account users’ psychological and emotional needs, are seen as typical or defining features of a psychologically informed environment. See Keats et al: “Psychologically informed services”; also Johnson: “A handy guide to PIEs” (Video) .
a PIE of pathways
Attention taken to the range of services in any one area, and thus the “pathways” by which individuals enter of leave any one service, with the same ‘psychologically informed’ thinking. See also ‘cycle of change’; ‘systemic failure’.
roll out of PIEs thinking
Spreading the use of a PIE approach (one or more models) from one service or part of an organisation where it is already established to others in the same service
enabling environment
An emotionally healthy environment – ward or workplace, hostel, school, etc. But here we use the term more specifically, to mean one that operates, consciously or not, broadly according to principles identified as ‘EE values’, by the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists. For the shared history and the conceptual links between EEs, PIEs and therapeutic […]
PIPEs
“Psychologically informed planned environments”. This is the term currently in use for PIEs or EEs in the criminal justice system in the UK. (See also “enabling environment”)
greencare
Greencare is an umbrella term now used to cover both traditional social and horticultural therapy, and newer approaches such as animal-assisted therapy, ecotherapy, care farms, forest schools, “green gym”.
evidence-generating practice
One of the typical or defining features of a psychologically informed environment. See Keats et al: “Psychologically informed services”; also Johnson: “A handy guide to PIEs” (Video) .
built environment
(Attention to) the built environment “and its social spaces” is one of the typical or defining features of a psychologically informed environment. See Keats et al: “Psychologically informed services”; also Johnson: “A handy guide to PIEs” (Video) .
psychological model
One of the typical or defining features of a psychologically informed environment. See Keats et al: “Psychologically informed services”; also Johnson: “A handy guide to PIEs” (Video) .
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