Aleksandra Liachenko Monteiro

Introduction Recovery is a key concept within the Mental Health Strategy for Scotland 2017–2027 (1). At its core, this strategy aimed to improve mental health and wellbeing services, with outcomes delivered for individuals and communities along with the expectation of recovery. More recently, forensic mental health services (FMHS) within Scotland have been subject to an independent review of service delivery (2).

Comforting or creepy? Shutterstock. Winter is coming: the nights are drawing in and in the Northern Hemisphere the hours of darkness already outnumber the hours of daylight. Research has shown that darkness produces a big fall in the number of people out walking – and a major reason for this is that people feel less safe walking in the dark.

Winter is coming: the nights are drawing in and in the Northern Hemisphere the hours of darkness already outnumber the hours of daylight. Research has shown that darkness produces a big fall in the number of people out walking – and a major reason for this is that people feel less safe walking in the dark. There may be an evolutionary explanation for why people feel less safe at night – we can’t see as well, and this may have exposed our ancestors to greater threat from predators.