Since
its launch in England in the 1990s, the Tidal
Model has flowed steadily around the globe.
Within ten years over 100 dedicated projects
have been established in different countries, all
focused on exploring and researching the relevance
of Tidal to different areas of mental health practice.
Projects
in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, New
Zealand, Australia, Japan and Denmark are exploring
how the values of the Tidal Model might provide a
basis for developing genuine, person-centred care
and also might help professionals reclaim the
vocation of human caring.
Here
we profile seven
projects, in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and
Japan. These projects illustrate the
Tidal commitments to human caring, and the
team's commitment to examining social and cultural
issues, which make their project special.
Many
outstanding projects have been developed in England
over the past decade, across acute and forensic
care, and within NHS as well as private health and
social care facilities. A good example of initiative
and collaboration with users and carers, is
the South West Yorkshire proect (click here).
In
Scotland
the
Glasgow service (click here)
is probably the largest
mental health service in the UK, serving 2.5 million
people, from inner-city Glasgow, through Paisley to
Inverclyde and the Lomonds. The award-winning
nursing teams within this Trust have demonstrated
the obvious fact that 'nursing matters'. More
recently, services in Ayrshire have begun to
implement Tidal
The
Republic of Ireland has been developing a
number of Tidal projects, across hospital and
community care for over five years. This pioneering
work began originally in Dublin, but has been
developed most successfully in County Cork
and County Mayo
(click for details).
North
America is the birthplace of nursing theory and the
concept of mental health 'recovery'. We were
honoured when Canadian nurses decided to
'launch' the Tidal Model within their services. Two
marvellous projects, first in
Ottawa (click
here) and then in Nova Scotia
(click here)
illustrate the priceless value of the commitment to
human caring and collegiate action to improve the
lives of others.
In
Japan,
Tidal began as a distinctly 'nursing' model, many
other disciplines have found an echo of their own
vocation within the Tidal philosophy. The Tidal
project in Tokyo
(click here) is a perfect
example of inter-disciplinary teamwork, where
psychiatrists, nurses and other therapists work
together to promote the recovery of the individual.
