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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)
Reimagining adult social care: evidence review
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, et al
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice for Adults
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 119
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
A review of critical issues in adult social care, setting out what is known from the evidence in four key areas of social care policy that feature prominently in the Care Act and are particularly impacted by change: safeguarding, prevention, involving people, and the workforce. The review, which features a range of authors, some providing the evidence and some the expert commentary, attempts to answer the question of what adult social care would look like if we were able to start designing it from a blank slate, and build a system based on the evidence of what people want and what is effective. (Edited publisher abstract)
Reimagining adult social care: evidence review: executive summary
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, et al
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice for Adults
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 8
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
Summarises the findings of an evidence review, which explored what adult social care would look like if we were able to start designing it from a blank slate, and build a system based on the evidence of what people want and what is effective. The review provides an analysis of key research on the important issues in adult social care today - including safeguarding, promoting independence, involvement and advocacy, and the adult social care workforce. It aims to inform the policy debate with an evidence-informed view.
Reimagining adult social care: evidence review
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, et al
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice for Adults
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 122
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
This evidence review considers what adult social care would look like if we were able to start designing it from a blank slate, and build a system based on the evidence of what people want and what is effective. A search was carried out using terms including safeguarding adults, risk, regulation, and user involvement. Academic literature is included along with policy documents, reports and opinion pieces, to reflect the range of evidence available and the value of practice-focused evaluations and independent research. Included literature also reflects a general paucity of rigorous, academic, user-focused research on safeguarding adults. The review provides an analysis of key research on the important issues in adult social care today - including safeguarding, promoting independence, involvement and advocacy, and the adult social care workforce. It aims to inform the policy debate with an evidence-informed view. The document concludes by highlighting gaps in the literature, and summarising themes from the review. (Edited publisher abstract)
Person centred support: a guide for service users: useful information for service users who got involved in The standards we expect project about person centred support
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, et al
- Publisher:
- De Montfort University. Centre for Social Action
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
The Standards We Expect Project is a two year research and development project supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which aims to encourage and guide the development of person centred support across the United Kingdom. This information pack, developed for service users, summarises useful information and good ideas gathered in workshops and training events held with service users. The pack covers: person centred support; the social model of disability; helping each other; rights; services; support money; and housing.
Working together for better social work education
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 25(4), June 2006, pp.326-331.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article looks at the development of user involvement in social work education at national policy level. It is written by a group of service users who are involved in Shaping Our Lives, the national independent user controlled organisation and network. The article looks at the background of user involvement in social work education and the work that Shaping Our Lives has done in the past. The new social work qualification requires user involvement in all its aspects and stages. The results so far have been patchy. Service users have made it increasingly clear that they want to be more directly involved in developing this policy alongside other stakeholders. They are particularly keen that some of the funding available goes to user controlled organisations to help develop service users' capacity to get involved and to ensure diverse involvement. The article looks at problems there have been in taking this goal forward and a positive initiative that has developed to help make it happen, led by service users, working collaboratively with other stakeholders.
Poverty first hand: poor people speak for themselves
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, et al
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 231p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Account of people's own views of poverty, its definition, causes and effects. Also includes their views on government and media treatment of poverty, on what policies are needed and what part poor people want to play in them.
Developing social care: service users' vision for adult support
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, BERESFORD Peter, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is based on the views of a very diverse range of social care service users – 112 in all – gathered from many different parts of the country. More than a quarter of the participants in this project were black or from minority ethnic communities. The study was almost entirely undertaken by service users and their organisations, drawing on their networks and experience at local and national levels in undertaking user-led research, evaluation and consultation. There was a remarkable degree of consistency and agreement in what different service users and service users from different parts of the country said. The report is organised in three parts: the first sets out how the consultation was undertaken; the second contains the views of service users generally; and the third reports the views of three specific groups of of people with learning difficulties to ensure that their comments have equal visibility.