From mental illness to a social model of madness and distress

Authors:
BERESFORD Peter, et al
Publisher:
Shaping Our Lives
Publication year:
2016
Pagination:
76
Place of publication:
London

This report draws on the views and experiences of mental health service users/survivors, regarding mental health policy, models and services. It aims to update findings of an earlier 2010 report, ‘Towards a social model of madness and distress?’, which found that mental health service users/survivors felt that a medical model dominated both public and professional thinking and that further discussions about more social approaches to mental health were needed. A total of 82 people took part in this second stage project through discussion groups, individual interviews, and an on-line survey. Participants included a diverse range of service users including, people from rural and urban areas, older women and people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Organised in six main sections, the report draws heavily on the comments of service users and includes quotations throughout. The six sections explore mental health service users’/survivors’ views on: a medical model of mental health; reclaiming the term ‘madness’; the social model of disability as applied to mental health; the idea and policy of recovery; social approaches to mental health; and taking forward social approaches to mental health. A final section brings together the findings from the project and offers a set of possible ways of taking them forward. (Edited publisher abstract)

Subject terms:
black and minority ethnic people, user views, social model, medical model, recovery approach, policy, mental health problems, mental health services, survivors;
Content type:
research
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ISBN print:
9781906498047

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