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Telling the whole story: a conceptual model for analysing the mental illness memoir. |
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Mental Health Review Journal, 16(3), 2011, pp.138-146. |
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1361-9322 |
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Personal accounts of mental illness, told by those who have lived it, can be powerful vehicles for educating health professionals but, the author suggests, there are caveats. Following a review of the challenges to reconstructing a mental illness experience she looks at the advantages and limitations of using mental illness memoirs as teaching aids. The importance of examining the many factors that shape the mental illness narrative itself is emphasised. The author concludes that while mental illness memoirs can be effective vehicles for educating students about mental illness, they may be even more valuable when accompanied by a careful examination of the factors that may have affected their construction. She believes that a strategy is needed for organising and interpreting the characteristics of both clients and their contexts. An ecologically-based conceptual model is proposed as a framework for the systematic analysis of mental illness memoirs. This includes a checklist of factors for analysis (inventory of influences on the mental illness narrative). The model and the accompanying checklist incorporate a broad range of both individual and contextual factors. It is suggested that the model could also be used to suggest specific avenues for further research across multiple accounts or the whole genre. |
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article; |
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curriculum development; life story work; mental health education; mental health problems; research methods; writing therapy; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=97d5a52e-0554-47da-9b71-92ec2eaa2071 |
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