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Mental health services users and disability: implications for future strategies
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, HARRISON Chris, WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.387-396.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article investigates what appears to be an ambiguity in the approach of disability policy and disability politics to mental health service users. Mental health policy, which has always had powers to restrict their rights, is now increasingly associating mental health service users/survivors with "dangerousness" and focusing on them as a threat to "public safety". Mental health service users"/survivors" organisations, which have so far tended to focus their activities on mental health policy and partnership approaches to making change,are now beginning to look to disability policy and politics to develop their thinking and activities for the future, while retaining their own distinct and independent identity. This has important implications for disability studies, policy and politics.